by Dantar Oosterwal | Jul 11, 2019 | Improvement Success
I tell my friends in manufacturing they have it easy. Manufacturing is easy to improve because you can physically see the work. You can follow the flow of material from incoming receiving to shipping. You can watch a part come into a machine or into an assembly...
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 Alan Maloney | Jul 29, 2018 | Exchange, Lean Product Development
A journeyI am a trained scientist. Science taught me to be curious about learning, and to always ask “what else is possible?”. The stories of great scientists, enlightened men and women, who, in the face of adversity, trusted in the raw evidence of their scientific...
by Peter Palmer | Sep 1, 2017 | Exchange, Knowledge
I believe that learning, especially the learning needed to change your way of thinking, needs different approaches and that it takes time. You need to enter the learning loop well prepared, know your True North and break it down into problems to solve and small...
by Bella Englebach | Jul 16, 2017 | What is Lean Product Development?
I’ve been attending the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange conference for several years now. I attended the first LPPDE in Denver in 2008, and while I haven’t had “perfect attendance,” I’ve made quite a few of the exchanges, in North America and in Europe....
