Allan R. Coletta, author of a new book The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process was a guest on the Business901 Podcast, Lean 3P is PDCA on Steroids. Allan is a chemical engineer with an extensive background in manufacturing operations, supply chain and engineering, gained while working in the chemical Read More …
What would Dr. Deming Say? Dr. W. Edwards Deming advised us that a supplier is a partner and our relationships must be based on cooperation and trust. Adversarial relationships result in waste. Supplier relationships based on Dr. Deming’s teachings change fundamentally and, even better, both suppliers and customers win. Dr. Deming showed how customers and Read More …
Well said by Allan R. Coletta, author of a new book The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process. Development of the 3P process is attributed to Chichiro Nakao, a former Toyota group manager and the founder of Shingijutsu company. The accepted meaning of 3P is Production, Preparation, Process. Allan is Read More …
Gemba Walks are an integral part of any Service Design process. Way too often we operate in a vacuum and rely on Voice of Customer and Voice of Market Data to govern the services and markets we create. Steve Blank uses the term and encourages entrepreneurs “To get out of the Office” and in Lean Read More …
Storyboarding is a popular way of transferring the details of a Lean or a Six Sigma project to a graphical representation. Very much like your child’s fifth grade science fair project. The purpose is to summarize your team’s efforts and let other people outside of the team understand them. In some instances, a Lean A3 Read More …
Allan R Coletta is a chemical engineer with an extensive background in manufacturing operations, supply chain and engineering, gained while working in the chemical process and healthcare diagnostics industries. He recently authored a book, The Lean 3P Advantage: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Production Preparation Process. Allan is my guest on the Business901 podcast next Read More …