by Matt Albin | Apr 16, 2020 | Knowledge
As I sit here during our “stay-at-home order” I find myself reflecting on how companies are responding to the pandemic. Many companies are quickly reworking their supply chains and manufacturing process to support new customer requirements, sometimes completely...
by Matthew Bryan | Dec 29, 2019 | Improvement Success, Knowledge
What I love about the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange is that it is a true exchange and opportunity to work with likeminded people facing similar problems with perhaps a different perspective and definitely different contexts. I really like the wide...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Aug 18, 2019 | Knowledge
At LPPDE Europe 2018 (Paris) I joined the workshop of Penny Cloft and Michael Kennedy. The workshop was on set-based engineering (SBE). If you are like me, then you know that set-based engineering is one of those things any lean product development novice learns it is...
by Penny Cloft | May 8, 2019 | Knowledge
Does your company have a continuous improvement strategy for your business and technical processes? Do you use metrics to encourage/measure the usage of lean tools like, K-Briefs, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Gemba, Standard Work, Plan Do Check Act.The obvious next...
by Terry Barnhart | Sep 19, 2018 | Knowledge
Everybody talks about failing fast. Great stuff, but today, we talk about replacing “Fail fast” with something more valuable.Yes.Really.Fast learning.The idea of “Fail fast” is that many of our ideas will not work, therefore the faster we rip...
by lppdeadm | Jul 18, 2018 | Knowledge, Lean Product Development
One of the biggest challenges in applying Lean to Product Development is the ability to “see” waste. Manufacturing has traditionally led in Lean implementation, possibly because it is much easier to identify waste in manufacturing. Inventory can be seen. Wasted motion...
