Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2016
It involves replacing traditional mass manufacturing with “lean manufacturing” principles. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world.
Deming Institute
OCTOBER 31, 2016
To establish simple and effective management systems without being preoccupied by form, paying particular attention to ensuring checks and actions, and rotating the management cycle rapidly. Establish mass production systems, achieve low prices, and contribute to the growth of the Japanese economy.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2016
Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. The newest robots, 3-D printing systems, and data-mining hardware and services were all there along with a host of people hyping Industry 4.0, Operations in a Connected World. ” Insight Center.
Deming Institute
JANUARY 16, 2017
General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. Less than a year later, a new CEO came in from the outside and disbanded the internal Lean program.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2013
and Canada, I have come to the conclusion that health care professionals will continue to struggle to deliver it unless hospitals redesign their internal supply processes, structures, and measurement systems so that staff have the specific materials and equipment needed for patients’ individual care plans, when they are needed.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 27, 2012
A lesson from lean manufacturing. One of the critical steps in lean manufacturing (or bringing lean to any other process, for that matter) is shifting to a "pull" system. More importantly, because a pull system is asynchronous (i.e., More importantly, because a pull system is asynchronous (i.e.,
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. This requires close collaboration with the operating units and IT. The same manufacturer analyzed the historical performance of its large IT projects.
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