by Jason Baird | Apr 26, 2020 | Organizations
5S Workplace Organization What is 5S? 5S is a five step workplace organization method. It is designed to help stabilize a variable process and create standard work where it does not exist. Possible signals for the need to use 5S could be: an area where it is...
by Jason Baird | Apr 23, 2020 | Fundamentals
What is the goal of the CIU system? The CIU system of continuous improvement (CI) is designed to help you achieve the goals below: Highest Quality Shortest Processing Time Lowest Cost Each of the four fundamental principles you will learn below are designed to help...
by Jason Baird | Apr 20, 2020 | Waste
“All we are doing is looking at the time line; from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect cash. We are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.” -Taiichi Ohno, Father of the Toyota Production System As Taiichi...