Kanban scheduling can be simply stated as demand scheduling. In Kanban, the products are produced based on actual usage rather than a forecasted usage. Therefore, a Kanban scheduling process to be considered a true Kanban the production process it controls must: Only produce product to replace the product consumed by its customer Only produce product Read More …
Get Clients Now Answer Center Here are this month’s new additions to the Answer Center. (You’ll need your password to log in.) Designing a Compelling 30-Second Introduction – Audio by C.J. Hayden Get Clients Now! facilitator Cristina Favreau interviews C.J. Hayden on how to design a compelling 30-second self-introduction, commercial, or elevator speech. Is Your Read More …
This is a nifty project management tool based on Kanban principles that Jim Benson of Personal Kanban told me about during the recording of our podcast. . What is Zen? Zen is a simple and flexible application that draws on ideas from lean manufacturing to provide a new way of thinking about project management. Rather Read More …
The other day Seth Godin had a post titled , The factory in the center. He said: Old time factories had a linear layout, because there was just one steam engine driving one drive shaft. Every machine in the shop had to line up under the shaft (connected by a pulley) in order to get Read More …
Lonnie Wilson, the owner and principal of Quality Consultants is an expert in Lean Manufacturing techniques and applications. He not only instructs management professionals in the applications of these lean techniques; he is an on-the-floor-implementation professional. His new book, How To Implement Lean Manufacturing, was released by McGraw Hill, August 2009. Listen to answers like Read More …
One of the tenants I am convinced of is that Work in Process is wasteful and unproductive. If you look at this from a Sales and Marketing Process it basically says that the more people you have in your sales and marketing funnel the more unproductive you are. A blog recently by Jim Benson of Read More …