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Caramel Corn Kaizen

Holiday shopping last week at one of my favorite food places, Johnson’s Popcorn, I came upon a scene reminiscent of our Lean training video Toast..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, VSM, kaizen, popcorn, toyota production system on December 01 , 2016.

Stagnation Nation

Twenty years ago, I was introduced to a graphical method for, as it was put to me, “sharing what you see” with others. It was referred to as a..
This entry was posted in old lean dude, VSM, material and information flow, process flow, M&I, TSSC, bruce hamilton, materials, Learning to See, inventory, stagnation, value stream mapping on January 07 , 2014.

Value Stream Wrapping

Gazing into a microscope as a college sophomore, I sketched the innards of a single-celled critter as part of biology exam. I knew what I was looking..
This entry was posted in lean, old lean dude, lean manufacturing, VSM, material flow, TSSC, A3, toyota production system, shingo prize conference, value stream mapping on January 05 , 2012.

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