Certainly, there is not a lot of good that comes out of a worldwide pandemic such as Covid-19. But one bright spot of it is that it has forc...

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

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

In a Lean manufacturing setting, products are ideally “pulled” through the value stream, one piece at a time, continually. There might be ti...

In Japanese, the word for waste is muda. Any time, activity or resources that do not add value can be considered waste. Traditionally, there...