How many times have you purchased a product only to find that a better or new and improved version was just released? It happens to all of us, myself included. Advertisers or salespeople sell you what they think you can afford. I’m not offended by the question, “What’s your budget?” One of the reasons we may feel betrayed after making […]
Keeping Up With Technology – Buyer Beware
- Advanced Lean Manufacturing
- Continual Improvement
- Continuous Improvement
- Execution
- Improvement
- Kaizen
- Lean
- Standard Work
- Standardized Work Combination Table
Standardized Work Combination Table
Standardized work is often perceived as a rigid series of “never to be changed” process steps. This misperception is likely why one of the most powerful lean tools is also the least used. Standardized work represents the current best practice, and lean practitioners recognize there is always an opportunity to improve. There’s always a better way and more than one […]
There’s Always a Better Way And More Than One Solution
While this post may be brief, it serves to exemplify my often stated phrase: There’s always a better way and more than one solution. Versalytics.org I was perusing a Wikipedia article on the Fortran programming language and paid special attention to a short block of code to calculate the area of a triangle. The program was using a formula I […]