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 Bob Melvin | Jul 1, 2018 | Lean Product Development
We visited the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC two summers ago. It was fascinating to see the actual site and the monuments for each of the first 4 flights. My family truly enjoyed the museum. It has been said that the Wright Brothers were...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Jul 8, 2017 | Knowledge
When I reflect on the conference theme of LPPDE North America 2017 in San Jose: Accelerating Innovation, an apparently counter intuitive insight comes to my mind. To accelerate innovation you need to slow down. Wow! How can that be done? When I work slower I cannot be...
by Suzanne van Egmond | May 6, 2016 | Lean Product Development
In lean implementation in factories or transactional offices, typically, one value stream is considered: the flow from incoming material to shipped product. Starting from that value stream, the non-value adding steps are eliminated or reduced to create more flow.In...
