Feb 7 2013
See on Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
This month in the Spotlight we have Michel Baudin.
Troy Taylor, from Western Australia, had some questions. Here are the answers.
See on www.businessleaners.com
Feb 3 2013
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How might you stop this from happening (without being unkind to dogs)?
This is what my council does:
A topical post from a witty blogger who unfortunately hides behind a pen name.
See on systemsthinkingforgirls.com
Feb 1 2013
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Недавно в рекомендованных материалах сайта Scoop.It! я нашел ссылку на статью Киркора Боздогана из подразделения проектирования систем Массачусетского технологического института, датированную маем 2010 г. и озаглавленную «Движение к интеграции системы Лин, Всеобщего менеджмента качества, Шесть сигма и других сходных методов совершенствования процесса на предприятии»…
If you prefer to read in Russian, this is the translation of my post on MIT article comparing Lean, TQM, Six Sigma, “and related enterprise process improvement methods”
Если вы предпочитаете читать по русски, это перевод моего поста по английски.
See on www.leanforum.ru
Jan 31 2013
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“The first point I want to make is that any measure has flaws and will not completely reflect reality. They should be considered indicators and in some way all refer to some sort of “standard” or desired condition. This is the basis for problem identification, which is the main purpose.
Any measure is a ‘snapshot’ of conditions during a specific time period and reflects many variables that are occurring. Some measures such as productivity are based on assumptions such as standard hours. The notion of standard hours is flawed in many ways that I won’t get into, but this measure can be used effectively (if used carefully). The mistake that is often made is to evaluate performance based on the measure and to drive inappropriate behaviors like overproduction.”
Insights on productivity metrics used at Toyota.
See on theleanedge.org
Jan 29 2013
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A union resurgence is taking place. Is that enough to save organized labor?
The article sounds right about unions in the US, but incorrectly describes France as having “drastically higher union coverage.” French unions barely represent 8% of the work force, not much more than the 7% in the US, but they do keep a high profile, with more than 90% of their funds coming, in various forms, from the government. Their financing was exposed in early 2012 by a parliamentary commission report that was first quashed and then leaked to the press (http://bit.ly/WdL1lk).
See on www.nytimes.com
Feb 9 2013
RICKS versus 5S
In the TPS Principles and Practices discussion group on LinkedIn, Frederick Stimson Harriman started a thread about why it is silly to translate 5S into English.
I think the main problem with the commonly used translation of 5S is that it is wrong and misleading. I don’t think it is silly to translate if you can get the meaning right. What is truly silly and hopeless is trying to find 5 English words with the right meaning and starting with “S.”
Back when 5S was only 4S, I heard the following in the UK: “Remove, Identify, Clean, and Keep clean” or R.I.C.K., and I thought it was both reasonably accurate and mnemonic.
For the fifth “S,” Shitsuke, I see it as the state you achieve when you have done the first four S’s long enough for the activities to become second-nature. If telling your kid every day to brush his teeth is Seiketsu, what you have accomplished when he does it on his own without prompting is Shitsuke. So I would translate Shitsuke by “Second-nature,” which happens to start with S.
With that, we could have R.I.C.K.S. as an improved translation. What do you think?
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