When I was growing up in manufacturing a primary point of friction between leadership and production workers was “quality or quantity.” Leaders did not understand …
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Category Archives: Business-Processes
How Fast Should You Improve?
Today’s topic is “how fast should your company improve?” While the bottom-line answer is the same for most all manufacturers, it is worth first looking …
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How User Controlled Pull Impacts Manufacturing
People want what they want when they want it. That’s hardly a crazy concept; just one most manufacturers don’t believe applies to them. But it …
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Design Your Manufacturing Business
If your manufacturing business is not designed to ensure robust processes within speed, cost, quality, and agility parameters; if your business is not designed to …
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Vaccine Distribution Is Not That Difficult
Now that approved vaccines for Covid-19 exist, why is it so difficult to get them from the manufacturers into the hands of those who inject, …
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Push or Pull, Revisited
Some insist that “electronic Kanban,” an alleged “pull” system, and increased ERP responsiveness replace the pull of a visual gemba-based kanban. Not true. Whether push …
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Problem Solve, or Innovate?
There are those who say problem solving looks backwards and innovation looks forward. I would argue that sometimes effective problem solving requires innovation and sometimes …
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Policy Policies in Manufacturing
Manufacturers have numerous policies in place. Attendance, customer returns, payment terms, and more. The vast majority are because of a lack of trust in employees …
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The Discipline of Accountability in Manufacturing
Would you describe your business culture as accountable? Many CEOs I talk with want more accountability in their organizations and are not quite sure how …
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Making Good Decisions
Leaders are supposed to make the tough decisions. And the important ones. But everyone else should be capable of making good decisions as well, the …
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