Today's post comes from Gerald Cronin of the Vivarium Operational Excellence (VOE) Network. The VOE Network is a worldwide group of L...

“ Respect for people” is a fundamental principle of Lean and a major difference between Lean and the Western, more Taylor -esque, concept o...

Last month, shortly after my blog on the “Lean Self”, my friend and mentor Mark Graban posted a comment to that blog. This was unusual.  Us...

One of the aspects of the Lean methodology that I appreciate most of all is the breadth of its  application. Lean is applicable to manufac...

No, not Albert Einstein! Moraito “Morey” Einstein, Albert’s third cousin, twice removed on his mother’s side. Just kidding! However, t...

5S is part of the Lean approach to of “visual management,” as a way to show problems and irregularities, so they can be fixed quickly. As su...