Tackling targeted improvements
By adopting Toyota’s “target conditions” technique, you can focus lean efforts.
By
Brad Cairns
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Coordinating is harder than doing
Follow five easy tips to better coordinate your lean manufacturing efforts.
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Brad Cairns
One, two, three, and you’re lean!
Three easy-to-remember sayings can get you 90 percent of the way to lean success.
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Brad Cairns
Is your lean journey stalled?
How you onboard new hires is critical to ongoing success.
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Brad Cairns
The value-added improvement mistake
Paying more attention to the non-value-added portion of your business could reap huge production advantages.
By
Brad Cairns
If it’s easy, why does it seem so hard?
Learn about the Three Ps between you and higher profit margins.
By
Brad Cairns
How one phrase transformed my company
Learning where to go and what to see can make a huge difference in production.
By
Brad Cairns
Asking why to find the real answers to production problems
A simple question asked in a different way can help you get quickly to the root cause of what you need to solve.
By
Brad Cairns
Where lean meets the Theory of Constraints
Two of the most popular business improvement philosophies
in the woodworking industry boil down to just one word.
By
Brad Cairns
Keeping processes in order
Sequencing: Are you getting just what you need, or what you really want?
By
Brad Cairns
