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Toyota Owes Grandpa Ford

By Jon Miller - January 19th, 2007

Earlier this month the Lean Insider attempted to answer the question Which Lean Book is Right for My Boss? These folks ought to have the answer, since Productivity Press has published the lion’s share of important books on what w

Six Sigma and JIT

By Ron - January 18th, 2007

I recently saw a question posted on the iSixSigma forum that went something like this, “How can Six Sigma enhance the just in time process?” I thought this was a great question and will offer my two cents on the topic this evening.

Why Not Chase the Rabbit?

By Jon Miller - January 17th, 2007

This is a question I have most often heard from European engineers, or from people in other countries who are working with extremely high volume light assembly operations, usually following some teaching about just in time production o

Six Sigma Saves Fortune 500 $427 Billion

By Ron - January 17th, 2007

Six Sigma has been beaten up a bit lately. First Dibert, yeah the cartoon, took a cheap shot and then the whole thing with former Home Depot chief Bob Nardelli (proponent of Six Sigma) stepping down took things over the top. Recently,

How Can They Not Change?

By Jon Miller - January 16th, 2007

I would like to say thank you to everyone who has been placing advance orders for Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management, coming out in March 2007. Here is a sneak preview from the book, a short passage from Chapter 37: Follow the D

The Heated Law of Dispersion

By Ron - January 16th, 2007

One debate that often arises amongst my Six Sigma cohorts is when to use the standard deviation of a dataset and when we should use another measure of dispersion, namely the range. Descriptive Statistics Overview Let’s take a quick r

Process Mapping – Lean or Six Sigma Tool?

By Ron - January 16th, 2007

If someone walked up to your this morning at the coffee machine and asked you, “Is process mapping a Lean or Six Sigma tool?” what would you say? This may seem like a trivial question but I dare say it is not. Poka-Yoke is a Six S

Does Lean Manufacturing = The Toyota Production System?

By Jon Miller - January 15th, 2007

There is a very interesting discussion over at the Lean blog today in the post To Merge or Not To Merge…Lean & TPS. There were nine reader comments as of tonight, with many good viewpoints on the question of whether the arti

About Us

By Ron - January 15th, 2007

Hi there, my name is Ron and this blog is my attempt at explaining how I believe Lean and Six Sigma can and should work together in harmony. Contrary to the name of this blog I don’t believe it’s optimal to merge Lean and Six S

Creating Synergy with Lean and Six Sigma