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The First Shingo Prize
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Last month marked the 35th anniversary of the Shingo Prize, an award bestowed each year to recognize organizations that demonstrate the principles..
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June 15 , 2023.
Tools or Culture?
With our annual Northeast LEAN Conference just a few days away, I want to relate a personal story about the theme of this year’s conference,
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September 14 , 2017.
Reflecting on Waste
For me, Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo are a bit like the Lennon and McCartney of waste elimination. Together they frame the technical and social..
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May 15 , 2017.
Cartwheels
Most often when we think of a wheel, it’s in the context of transportation, one of the more obvious and ever-present of the 7 wastes. In fact, the..
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January 31 , 2017.
Doormats
One of Shigeo Shingo’s popular status quo targets was engineers, whom he placed in three categories:
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September 23 , 2016.
Lean By Doing
Early along, as a student of the Toyota Production System (TPS), now referred to as “Lean,” I struggled with some of the concepts and systems. For..
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September 07 , 2016.
Peripheral Discoveries
The following post is inspired by The Teachings of Don Juan, an anthropological novel from the 1960’s written by Carlos Castaneda chronicling his..
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August 16 , 2016.
Profitless Part Proliferation
I wrote a post a little more than five years ago about Variety Reduction Program (VRP), an amazing but little known product design optimization tool...
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June 27 , 2016.
Eye of the Beholder
Many moons ago when I was just getting started on my lean journey, I visited a large automotive supplier to benchmark pull systems. My own factory..
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May 20 , 2016.
Indefinite Postponement
Today’s post is inspired by the politically charged gobbledygook we call presidential primaries. This battle of principles turned battle of wills..
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April 20 , 2016.