Lean Manufacturing Principles, Tools, and Concepts

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated July 28, 2011

Equipment Reliability and Total Productivity Maintenance

An underestimated aspect of productivity is the reliability of the equipment we are using. Whether the equipment is heavy equipment used in

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated July 12, 2011

Interestingly, the concept of Flow and the 2nd Pillar in the Toyota Production System, which is "Respect for People" or as I often heard it "Respect

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated June 30, 2011

The type of Bruce Lee training is known to be notorious and extremely difficult. At least that's the folklore. Bruce Lee is attributed to having

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated June 28, 2011

A process map is helpful because it gives us a holistic overview of the customer experience or the specific process that we're interested in

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated June 27, 2011

This article explains Kanban Software Development Gemba and why you should care. It's a guest post from Jason Yip. I'm pleased to present this

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated June 14, 2011

There are many Toyota quotes attributed to its early founders or to its leadership. Can one even squeeze water from a dry towel? Eiji Toyoda

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated June 13, 2011

While searching for an email in my inbox, I found an old email from a friend that had worked at the Burton Snowboard factory in Burlington, Vermont.

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated June 9, 2011

Reply All Information Overload constitutes a large portion of overprocessing and overproduction of information - two of the 7 deadly wastes. We

By Uday Kawar, Last Updated June 8, 2011

We know that Lean is both a systematic method for improving an organization, but it's also a wordview - the lens by which we see and understand the