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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...
The 7 Wastes
“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...