September 2006 | Page 2 of 2

Hoshin is 5S for Your Head

By Jon Miller - September 6th, 2006

Busy, busy days. It’s days like these that it becomes more important to avoid working harder, longer and instead take a precious moment out of your day to examine whether what you are doing is really adding value towards the ulti

Workflow Design: Horizontal Handling vs. Vertical Handling

By Jon Miller - September 4th, 2006

Here’s a follow up to a previous post of the one point lesson on operational availability vs. rate of operation. A reader pointed out that pictures and not just words would be helpful, so in answer to a related question about multi-p

A Heijunka Economy

By Jon Miller - September 2nd, 2006

As summer officially comes to a close in the United States this weekend with the kick-off of the American Football season and something Americans call Labor Day, I find myself thinking about heijunka (averaging of both your demand volu

Look Up from Your Work and Ask: “Could We Flow This?”

By Jon Miller - September 1st, 2006

At the center of the Toyota Production System, and therefore of Lean manufacturing, is the fundamental principle of creating flow. For example in a machine shop this means connecting processes so that an operator can be a multi-process

Month: September 2006

Hoshin is 5S for Your Head

Workflow Design: Horizontal Handling vs. Vertical Handling

A Heijunka Economy

Look Up from Your Work and Ask: “Could We Flow This?”

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