One of our projects in Scottland came in September 2011 to an end. Our Customer Carron Phoenix improved from a defect level of 4% to 0% in 4 month. The service level increased. These results led to further savings along the value stream. The sales companies saved a few hundred thousand Euros on (safety, buffer [...]
Continue Reading →For many years, we have been conducting lean audits for private equities during due diligence and fortune 500 companies for continuous improvements. 5 years ago the focus and the customer demand was on lean manufacturing audits to see the leanness current state before the transaction. This offers a measurement against the future state = the results of ongoing lean conversions and kaizens afterwards. [...]
Continue Reading →Doesn’t matter how you will call it, Lean Admin, Lean Service or Lean SG&A can be a pitfall for experienced lean manufacturing practitioner. Especially engineer minded companies and countries like Germany and Switzerland like to start with “the tools”. But adapting or migrating tools and even key learnings from the shop floor to the administrative [...]
Continue Reading →“The Gold Mine” by Freddy and Michael Ballé climbed my personal olymp of audiobooks. My current assignment force me to drive three hours per day by car. I see this as a great opportunity to listen to as many audiobooks as possible and extend my horizonts. After listening to the “old stuff” like Womack and Jones ”Lean Thinking” [...]
Continue Reading →Five why is a very powerful method. It’s a logical way to find your root cause. But it can do even more. It can take you on a interesting and maybe funny journey. Most of you probably know the typical (boring) five why example like this one: Why did the machine stop? It blew a fuse. [...]
Continue Reading →Are you aware of Danaher? No? Maybe you heard about Beckman Coulter, Matco, Sybron, Hengstler, Aaliant, Accu-Sort, Alltec, Armstrong Tools, Dexis, Dover, Fluke, Gilbarco, Hach Lange, Hydrolab, Instrumentarium Dental, KaVo Dental, Investech, Leica Microsystems, Leica Bio Systems, Portescap, Radiometer, Thomson, Veeder-Root or Videojet Technologies? No? I haven’t heard about them neither before I became the CEO and [...]
Continue Reading →Just great to see Dr. Deming talking. It was true what he said in the 1950s, true in 1984 and still true today…
Continue Reading →Wie wir wissen gibt es zwei Kernprinzipien von Lean Management: Kontinuierliche Verbesserung (Continuous Improvement) und Respekt gegenüber Mitmenschen/-arbeitern (Respect for People) Taiichi Ohno hat schon sehr früh (Japanische Auflage des Toyota Production System – Toyota seisan hõshiki – kam 1978 auf den Markt) anhand eines bildlichen Vergleichs aufgezeigt, von welcher Bedeutung es ist, die Mitarbeiter [...]
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