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Putting the Lean Tools Together
Whether you are just starting out in your lean journey, need a little brush up or well established in your Lean Enterprise system and are ready to train new-comers, understanding how the Lean Tools fit...
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Maintenance as an Essential Part of Lean
As we implemented and refined our Lean Enterprise Production System the stability of the processes becomes extremely important. We need a good parts supply, reliable quality, dependable people, with...
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Developing a Waste Elimination Culture
How do we approach Waste elimination in a manufacturing environment? Start by developing a structured process that is simple and centred on reducing the waste, no matter how small, as this will add up...
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Did your Lean Processes Survive your Holiday?
Over the last few weeks, three of the TXM Lean Consultants have been enjoying a well-earned break and that got me thinking how hard it can be to clear our work calendars to allow us to have time away...
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7 Flows to Consider with your Factory Layout
Whether you are moving into a new factory, changing the layout of your current facility to improve workflow or making room for a new piece of equipment, your team must consider the 7 flows during the...
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New Year’s Resolutions for Your Lean Goals
This year, let’s NOT make any New Year’s resolutions when it comes to running our businesses and being successful. Rather than go through the usual rant about mission statements and visions and that...
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Top 3 TXM Lean Minute Videos
Our TXM Lean Minute videos have attracted attention from around the globe and we love bringing them to you! They are a fun way to bring our lean philosophy, theory and practical tools to life, and...
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Creating a Standard Lean Workstation in a Low Volume, High Mix Industry
When a team of craftsmen come together to discuss their needs for a standard workbench, you can imagine the struggle this can be for a team who is just starting on their Lean journey. There is plenty...
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Why Lean Business Processes Fail – Does your “Gate” Have No “Fence”?
We have all read the books, we all know the theory – Lean business processes are GREAT! They cut waste, cut lead times and streamline processes. However the little secret that no one will tell you...
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Top 5 Lean Tools that You Wont Need a Lean Consultant to Implement
Red Green Tee card board Lean manufacturing is a well known and proven management system, which has been implemented in thousands of companies and organizations and a huge range of industries...
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Five Reasons You Spend Your Day Firefighting and Expediting Orders – and What...
Excessive Inventory like this often goes hand in hand with constant expediting and firefighting to address shortages. Do you find that much of your day “firefighting” to expedite orders in a vain...
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Don’t Understand Japanese Lean Jargon? Don’t Worry!
Lean originated with Toyota in Japan, but this does not mean that Lean is “Japanese”. Japanese is a beautiful language, but it is not necessary to use Japanese words to understand Lean Have you...
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Improving Our Work with a Quality Mindset
Work in a lean system needs to be highly defined in terms of required inputs, the sequence of operations and the expected outcomes. One of the key manufacturing elements that spans across these three...
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Guide to Practical Lean Standard Work
A common teaching from lean methodologies is “Without standardisation; you cannot achieve effective kaizen, develop a lean management structure or even support a continuous improvement program.”...
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Simplicity in Business Systems leads to Best Practices
Within manufacturing, lean thinking continues to drive innovation in the way business systems are arranged. The underlining principle to this has been to follow the lean concepts that simplifies the...
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Understanding Waste, Unevenness and Overburden – Muda, Mura and Muri
It is hard to see how this factory would ever be productive with this much waste. The definition of Lean is to reduce waste. Here we will look at the THREE types of waste the may occur in a process....
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The “Maslow’s Hierarchy” of Continuous Improvement
Companies that are just beginning their lean journey will often talk about the company culture they would like to instil into their organisation. For some companies this dream is going to take more...
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Managing Knowledge Work with Kanban
Lean principles can apply equally in a knowledge work environment such as product design In a manufacturing environment, we can quickly move to a visual display of the work to allow our team to show...
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Benchmarking the Lean principles at Subway
When starting out on your lean journey, it can be hard to visualise what “best practice” may look like and be able to share that vision with your team. There isn’t always the opportunity to visit other...
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Why Distribution Businesses Fail to Deliver On Time In Full for Customers.
Globalisation has extended the supply chain, which has greatly increased the complexity of delivering the right product in the right quantity at the right time. In my forthcoming book, On Time In...
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