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Category Archives: Lean-Manufacturing
Should Your Products Be Smart?
Prior podcasts have introduced the digital transformation business categories of “machine health” and “connected employees.” In this episode we discuss “smart products.” Some manufacturing products …
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Digital Transformation – Connected Employees
Connected employees is a phrase that can intimate workers and confuse leadership. When clarified, it becomes an integral part of your digital transformation. Connected employees …
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Machine Health and Digital Transformation
In manufacturing, reliable healthy equipment is a fundamental requirement. Yet so many of us struggle with unplanned downtime due to equipment failures. Digital transformation often …
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Not Safe Enough
My grandfather was involved in two very serious accidents as a farmer. In the first, his little brother was killed as the two of them …
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“Reducing Lead Time” is Ambiguous
In last week’s podcast I suggested any effort to reduce lead time start with the obvious (not to all, sadly). Define it. And I encourage …
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To Reduce Lead-Time, First Define It
Leadtime is either a competitive advantage, or a competitive disadvantage to your manufacturing business. Most of you want to improve it, i.e., reduce it. That …
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To Automate, Or Not To Automate
Industry 4.0 is the topic of conversation in manufacturing today. But most of us have not yet figured out all we can and should do …
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Please! Please Become Disciplined!
If your costs are higher than you want, speed is no where near where it should be, and you all too frequently live in a …
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Heijunka is For Thinking Too
This week between Christmas and New Year is commonly wasted by US manufacturers. I get the holiday spirit, and that people need to relax and …
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