Lean Manufacturing Principles, Tools, and Concepts

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated August 6, 2014

Support from Human Resources is Critical in Lean: A Russian Case Study (English)

Today we feature a lean practitioner - Mikhail Kalinin. He resides in Russia and he helps organizations in Russia implement Lean. In today's article,

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated August 6, 2014

Today we feature a lean practitioner - Mikhail Kalinin. He resides in Russia and he helps organizations in Russia implement Lean. In today's article,

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 25, 2014

Kanban is an important concept in lean manufacturing. Kanban is a method that enables pull and can help create flow in a system. Kanban has several

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 30, 2014

Practitioners of Lean Manufacturing are sometimes criticized for using buzzwords. It's fair to say that this criticism is party true. In fact, when I

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 16, 2014

Total Quality Management has been around for a long time. If you look at the history of continuous improvement, it formally goes back to Frederick

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 5, 2014

The Business Objectives Alignment Worksheet is nowhere near the completeness and exhaustiveness of the Hoshin Kanri X Matrix, but it is a simple and

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 3, 2014

The Kaizen Before and After Template is simple and effective and can help communicate the results from your Kaizen Efforts. The Kaizen Before and

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated June 2, 2014

If you're here to download the Hoshin Kanri X Matrix, you're at the right place. But, go here if you want to learn more about Hoshin Kanri in

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated May 29, 2014

I was invited to the Nike Headquarters several months ago, where I met with most of the leadership team of the Nike.com business unit, which is the