Want Your Colleagues To Do A Good Job? Show Them What A Good Job Looks Like. TAGS: american society for quality | assembly | blitz | borat | communication | consulting | continuous improvement | control | customer | customer requirements | design for six sigma | do it right the first time | good job | if you don't have time to do it right | instruction | lean | manager | operations | picture | process | quality | quality function deployment | reports | six sigma | visual | work instruction It’s a situation I’ve encountered many, many times in my career – a manager or colleague requesting a project be completed or task finished without me knowing enough about how …Continue reading →

Baseball Trade Show – Game Signs TAGS: assembly | catcher | excess motion | game signs | lean | pitcher | signals | sleeves | standard work | stickers Game Signs is a new product for catchers that aids in communicating pitch signals to the pitcher. They are colored stickers that are placed on the fingernails of the catcher’s …Continue reading →

What is lean? TAGS: activities | assembly | atlas shrugged | blitz | consulting | cost | definition | efficiency | efficient | lean | lean blitz | money | operations | process | savings | six sigma | sports | time | transmission | value | waste Before you can run off and start using lean principles or figure out why lean is so important, you have to first ask, “What in the heck is ‘lean’ anyway?” …Continue reading →