MTBF, MTTR, MTTF & FIT – Explanation of Terms
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) Is a reliability term used to provide the amount of failures per million hours for a product. This is the […]
Lean Management
Process Type
Many organisations feel that the issues and problems they face are unique to themselves. Fortunately this is not true and therefore we are able to […]
Theory of Constraints (TOC)
What is it? TOC is a thinking process designed to help organizations focus their effort during a continuous improvement process. The focusing methodology follows these […]
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
What is TPM? The focus of TPM is on equipment and people with the objective being the elimination of all forms of equipment losses. Equipment […]
What is Lean Thinking?
Lean Thinking is about making continuous improvements to enhance business performance. A number of Continuous Improvement philosophies and techniques have evolved. These include, Total Productive […]
Toyota Production System
The Toyota Production System is the methodology developed at Toyota that led to the development of lean manufacturing and the lean philosophy. The Toyota Production […]
Lean Thinking and Life Equations
In Lean Thinking and in Life in general we often like to write out neat little equations to explain complex concepts so that people understand […]
Lean, and Autonomous Maintenance
In this post we are going to suggest another Lean tool that may be beneficial for our children to learn Autonomous Maintenance (i.e. Operator Maintenance). Kids […]
Lean Maturity
Knowing When You’re Lean Recently I have been seeing more and more discussion about Lean Maturity and people asking us how they know they are […]
Diversity as a Key to Success
A large part of being successful in a Lean Transformation is repect for people one way we show that is through becoming a more diverse […]
Lean Implementation and Respect for People
Why in Lean Implementation is it vital to build an organization based upon Respect for People? This simple and commonly asked question is the most […]
The Key to Successful Lean Implementation
The question “What is the key to successful Lean Implementation?” is often asked of us. The answer is simply yet, the toughest part of Lean […]
Life Lessons and Lean – Success Needs Change
In this is the first article in which we will touch on some of life’s lessons any of us over thirty should have learned by […]
What is TPM ?
What is Total Productive Maintenance There are two common questions asked often “What is TPM or What is Total Productive Maintenance” and two “how is […]
What is Ergonomics ?
To answer the question “what is Ergonomics” we will start with a dictionary definition of it. Ergonomics is defined by most dictionaries as: The applied […]
What is Standardized Work ?
Now we turn to Standardized Work a term that is often confused with another commonly used term Work Standards. Firstly both supposedly serve the same […]
What is Kaizen ?
We will now tackle the question “what is Kaizen?” on this page. Let’s start by giving you a definition that reflects how Toyota defines it. […]
What is Continuous Flow ?
In order to answer the question “what is Continuous Flow?” we first need to know what flow is. Flow is the movement of a product […]