Know Why You’re Being Paid TAGS: accounting | baits | barista | blitz | brand | burger | burgers | bushes | coffee | concession | contract | customer | defect | delicious | demand | expectation | exterminator | flip | follow | guarantee | hunger | infestation | investment | landscape | lawns | lean | machine | memories | money | mow | operations | paid | pictures | process | rats | refund | repair | research | resources | roof | satisfaction | save | six sigma | sports | stand | starbucks | status | symbol | taxes | time | tools | traps | trim | wedding | why This past weekend I visited some friends in Columbia, South Carolina and they shared horror stories of a trio of rats that have invaded their house’s walls. One of those …Continue reading →

Production of Baseball Bats – From Forest to Field TAGS: bat | blitz | business | chainsaw | cut | effort | felled | finish | florida | hanley | human | inconsistency | inventory | kentucky | lathe | lean | louisville | manufacture | miami | motion | operations | pennsylvania | plant | process | quality | queue | ramirez | six sigma | slugger | sports | sticks | transportation | tree | trim | trucks | warren | waste As a follow-up to the video about the production process for baseballs, Mark Graban of LeanBlog.org passed along this ESPN video about how baseball bats are made. Forest to Field …Continue reading →