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Publisher’s Note: Practice What You Preach
The mistake many make when faced with criticism is to acknowledge it but never do anything about it. The same happens on a lean journey—we sometimes recognize that problems exist, but we never actually do something about them. When considering your lean journey or the voices of your customers, it pays to practice what you preach.
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Case Study: Plan for Success through Policy Deployment
A company that has committed to a lean transformation also has committed to working toward long-term growth and success. This requires planning for the future as well as creating operational excellence today. Although many companies understand the need for planning, doing so is perceived as much more difficult than dealing with the day-to-day operational improvements, and so often planning goes undone or poorly done. And yet, if a company wants to truly transform, its management team must learn to plan for the future. A lean company does this planning through policy deployment.
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Accelerated Learning: What is Creativity
During a kaizen event, we repeatedly stress, “Creativity before capital.” This means we should find ways to eliminate waste, solve problems, and make improvements without using money. To do this requires us to be clever, inventive, resourceful, and creative. But what exactly is creativity? Being creative means bringing
something new into existence using imaginative skills.
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Tech Talk: Best Practices in the Workplace
What is a visual workplace? It is a work environment that is self-explaining, self-directing, and self-improving. A visual workplace allows the entire work team to know the condition of a work site at a glance. A good visual management system allows you to see what is truly abnormal; this allows you to react quickly to fix the problem.
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Field Note: Lean Awareness Training for Everyone
Mike Serena, managing director of the TBM LeanSigma® Institute Worldwide along with the internal Total Customer Value (TCV) continuous improvement champions at Enpro have been conducting a series of two-day lean awareness training classes across Enpro’s international sites. The curriculum includes not only the training of lean principles and concepts but also applies the classroom learning and skill sets to both product simulation and “on-the-floor” application at each manufacturing site.
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