Lean Manufacturing Principles, Tools, and Concepts

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated December 16, 2010

Chasing Value or Chasing Costs

Groupon Chases Costs Not Value. Let me explain. Groupon is the hot collective buying site that provides local merchants access to a massive

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated December 13, 2010

In general, Kaizen is manifested in an organization via the following characteristics: Total company involvement Small improvements, but many of

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated December 4, 2010

On this episode of "Shoulders of Giants", we remember Walter Shewhart. Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart", March 18, 1891 - March

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated December 2, 2010

The typical consumer packaged goods manufacturing process goes through the following steps: Procure Material Manufacture Product Ship to

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 19, 2010

My wife found this ad in a local newspaper that was both amusing and dangerous. But, it presented a great opportunity to implement

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 16, 2010

For people or organizations just starting on their lean journey, there are concepts, jargon, and worldview that are new and are hard to remember.

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated November 4, 2010

A fun but sad example of poorly managed outsourcing was published earlier this week, which goes to show that outsourcing may sometimes not be your

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated October 29, 2010

Kaizen, as a mindset, can be seen everywhere. Yes, even mixed martial arts. Kenny Florian, an up-and-coming, lightweight shares how he's risen up

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated October 26, 2010

This article shows a timeline and video of the History of Lean Six Sigma. As with most things, The Toyota Production System (later to be called Lean