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...

I was recently looking through the documents and photos on some old laptops when I came across photos I had taken when I was just starting ...

This is a continuation of the previous blog “‘Pushy’ Rescue Groups.” We are revisiting the difference between “pull” and “push” systems. ...

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

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

This is the Lean concept that value should be “pulled” from downstream in the value stream by a consumer, backward up the value stream. “Pul...

For us in veterinary medicine, the external customer is, of course, the client. They are the reason that we are in business, the initiator o...

  The value stream is the overall high-level sequence of steps necessary to take a product or service from start to finish (and the delays t...