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Making a Background Check on People
Making a background check on people is getting easier every day. Internet enables us to make a background check on people from our PC. The most common way of making a background check is just going on Google and “Google” someone. Type in their name and search engine will probably give you their Facebook profile, [...]
Lean Six Sigma Kaizen Blitz – Definitions and Generation of a Potential Projects List
Why start with definitions? For several reasons. Have you ever been to a plant that has been doing “Lean” for several years, but all you really see is a lot of 5S? Metrics, flow, standard work, Total Productive Maintenance, Setup Reduction, etc. are ALL missing, but the place sure looks organized! That is how they [...]
How to Implement a Kanban in Lean Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing, well known among large corporations, in fact most companies all over the world have implemented some form of lean manufacturing, no matter what their size is. A big part of lean manufacturing is the Kaizen and Kanban methods. But in a Toyota production system, these methods cannot exist alone without total facility analysis [...]