How To Make Your Virtual Kaizen Initiative a Success
Even with promising vaccines expected to be available, your organization’s focus continued vigilance, and rapid response is critical right now!
Applying Soccer Discipline to Your Company’s Lean Daily Management
In a world of rapidly changing customer demands, your organization’s lean daily management activities and the game of soccer have much in common.
An Operational Nod to Anthony Bourdain
Sometimes operational lessons get reinforced by unexpected players. This one begins with a story surrounding the late great Anthony Bourdain.
A New Look at In-sourcing and Cell Layout Boosts this Manufacturer’s Capacity by 107%
Identifying risks to product quality and other supply chain issues of logistics and costs reduces lead times by 60%, cell layout boosts capacity by 107%.
Helping a Specialty Materials Producer Embrace PDCA Culture
DPA recently worked with a manufacturer of wire, cables and connectivity products to reduce scrap at one of their factories.
What is Lean and Continuous Improvement?
It is listening intently to employees’ ideas. Converting them into doable alternatives. Then, helping everyone own the new process and move as a team.
Do’s and Don’ts for Making Process Improvements that Stick
What’s holding your maintenance organization back from making process improvements? The dos and don’ts for organizations that want to implement change.
How to Set Up a Lean Factory That Works
Lean manufacturers have a leg up on speeding products to market, reducing costs and keeping customers happy. In this overview, I’ll share how to engineer, set up and manage the
DPA Helps Supplier Resolve Inventory and Return to Vendor Issues
A fast-growing supplier of tankless water heaters experienced a high rate of inventory errors. DPA supported the work of a kaizen team within the company to identify and solve process