Lean Transformation Blueprint: 10 Steps for Success
For manufacturing companies aspiring to optimize efficiency, reduce waste, and achieve sustainable results, embarking on a Lean Transformation is a strategic imperative. The journey towards lean excellence begins with aligning the leadership team with the...
How to Hire a Lean Consultant
The pursuit of operational excellence often leads manufacturing companies to seek the guidance of a Lean Consultant. The decision to bring in external expertise is a strategic move that can propel a company towards efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainable...
How to Be Part of the 5%
In manufacturing, where the pursuit of operational excellence is both a challenge and a necessity, the initiation of a Lean Transformation marks a pivotal moment for manufacturing organizations. However, the sobering reality is that a significant number – often cited...
The Problem with Lean for Small Businesses
As a Small Business Owner, you may have heard about the idea of Lean process improvement as a strategy to save money in your business and be more efficient. Maybe you’ve seen Lean applied in other settings but you’re not quite sure where to begin applying lean in...
Skyrocket Your Productivity with Business Playbooks
Just like the most successful sports teams, businesses that operate consistently and effectively win the game more often. It starts with having all of your top plays and strategies documented in one place so that it’s clear to everyone on the team what they’re doing...
How to have your Manufacturing Operations Thrive in a Post-Pandemic Economy
2020 – what a year. No one saw that coming. An unprecedented economic downturn resulting from a global pandemic that had us all stay home to protect ourselves and others. Businesses, and specifically manufacturing operations, dealt with lost revenue and decreased...
How to Transform your Manufacturing Business into a Lean Mean Business Machine
In the manufacturing world, the name of the game is to figure out how to make more, faster. Avoid downtime, keep the process running, be safe and find ways to save money while you’re at it. Over time, life in this world can devolve into something to be survived. Even...
The Complete Guide To Process Mapping
I’m standing in front of a partially created process map for cleaning a major piece of equipment in the plant I’m working at. I’m writing the action the operators have just shared with me down on a sticky note. I stick it onto the map. With my back still turned to...
Lean Six Sigma for Small Business
Lean Six Sigma was born in the manufacturing industry and while it has many powerful applications in other industries, the benefits of its’ application in those other industries often goes unexamined, especially in the world of small business. In my conversations with...