2015年6月24日 · The power of Gemba is in exploring this gap. As director of health and safety at an environmental and engineering firm involved in construction activities, Haley & Aldrich, when I do a gemba walk, I don’t necessarily ask questions about safety.

Find downloadable forms and templates here for A3 problem solving, standard work, project management, and value stream mapping.

An activity that allows us to take the innovative ideas of team members to develop valuable solutions to problems by creatively adapting materials that are already on hand. It also allows us to use mock-ups and simulation to prove or disprove the ideas.

5S refers to five related terms, beginning with an S sound, describing workplace practices conducive to visual control and lean production.

How to Ensure the Safety of Hospital Staff During the Pandemic In the seventh and final post of a seven-part series, the Global Lean Healthcare Initiative focuses on keeping staff safe.

2017年9月6日 · Creating a standard template for attendance at design reviews. Attendance includes both reviewers who are consistent across all projects to facilitate organizational learning and key cross-functional point people to determine who within those functions has the appropriate knowledge to contribute to the design reviews.

2006年2月14日 · Faced with downtime on key pieces of sophisticated equipment in a machine-intensive environment, Delphi's Plant 1 launched a successful improvement effort by focusing on rigorous problem solving to create basic stability. This Lean Enterprise Institute case study shows you what plant management, staff and employees did.

2024年12月3日 · Read an excerpt from Managing on Purpos, a practical guide to implementing hoshin kanri. Coming March 2025.

2021年3月24日 · The focus of his lean implementation work is strategic planning and execution (strategy deployment), quality, delivery and cost management, health and safety, and business process improvement.

2020年5月13日 · Part 1: Designing the Patient Flow to Fight Covid-19 Part 2: How Hospitals are Leveraging Visual Management in the Battle Against Covid-19 Standard work to ensure safety, quality and efficiency Develop standardized work and train teams in using those standards, to guarantee safety and agility in your operations.