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...

The Lean philosophy is built largely around the concept of problem solving and continuous improvement ( kaizen ) by involving the workers w...

After reading, studying and thinking about Lean over the past seven years, I am convinced that Veterinary practice and Lean are destined f...

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

SMED stands for Single Minute Exchange of Dies. One of Shigeo Shingo’s and Toyota’s greatest gains in increasing flow was figuring out how ...

I am especially pleased to present this edition of leanvets.com for a couple of reasons. 1)  It is the first podcast for me. Hopefully, ...

When I first started learning about Lean, one of the terms I seemed to have difficulty wrapping my brain around was "takt time." ...

A3 reports are the written documents that succinctly record the PDCA cycle problem solving effort, often providing a bit more structure than...