by Jason Baird | May 14, 2020 | Standard Work
Standard Work As you may recall, the lean system of continuous improvement is designed to help you achieve the three goals below: Highest Quality Shortest Lead Time Lowest Cost The foundation of achieving these goals is in creating stability in e work flow of your...
by Jason Baird | Apr 30, 2020 | Process
POSTED APRIL 30, 2020 ADMIN Use Good Processes to Deliver Value to Customers As you begin learning about CI principles, there are two important things you must master. First, the purpose of everything we do is to deliver value to the customer. We should always be...
by Jason Baird | Apr 29, 2020 | Fundamentals
Your pursuit of excellence begins here… The art of evolving, changing, and becoming better is more than just hard work. It is a system that can be learned, mastered and utilized by anyone looking to grow. What is continuous improvement? Call it a mindset, a...
by Jason Baird | Apr 28, 2020 | Quality
Building Quality into the Process What is quality? Quality is a subjective term which can be defined differently depending on the person. Dictionary.com defines quality as being of high grade, superiority, or excellence. The American Society of Quality defines it as...
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...
