Focus on the 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...

Intro to Standard CI Certification

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...

Built in 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...

Five S

  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...

The Four Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement

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...