Lean Manufacturing Principles, Tools, and Concepts

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated March 15, 2012

Frequent Quality Checks and False Security of Lot Sampling Statistics

We're pleased to have Gary Netherton share with us his thoughts on quality control and quality audits. He takes a common sense approach, which I

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated March 14, 2012

Every year about this time in the United States, people scramble to get their taxes done. I'm no exception. But thankfully, with the help of tax

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated March 1, 2012

Lean for the Lean's Sake: Not Aligned to Organizational Goals - is a story that is all too familiar. There's a story shared among lean

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated February 21, 2012

Floor Marking Tape for 5S is the topic of this article. We're pleased to have Cliff Lowe as a guest blogger today and for him to share his thoughts

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated January 26, 2012

Bypassing any expected change management effort or cultural transformation, nothing gets a group of employees moving than an executive order. That's

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated January 16, 2012

Kaizen at AOL Broadband - You've Got Mail, my friend. We, lean folks, sometimes develop a narrow worldview that lean is just for manufacturing.

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated January 12, 2012

This article is a guest post from Noeradji Prabowo, a continuous improvement practitioner in Indonesia. In this article, he shares a simple and

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated January 9, 2012

We're pleased to have Derek Singleton present an article on Manufacturing Software and argue for how traditional ERP software can better support the

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated December 12, 2011

This article explores the practice of Kaizen Employee Suggestions in your Suggestion Program. While waiting for my kids' swimming lesson to start,