Category: Lean Manufacturing
Calculating Safety Stock Safety stock is a buffer of inventory that a company keeps on hand to ensure that it can meet customer demand even if there are unexpected disruptions or fluctuations in demand....
The Beer Game – Inventory Management Professors Brad Morrison, Jim Hines, and Paulo Gonçalves teach their organizational behavior and supply chain management classes how to play the beer game. The Supply Chain Beer Game...
Toyota Production Documentary – Toyota Manufacturing Production and Assembly at Toyota Factory Toyota follows a lean manufacturing process, known as the Toyota Production System (TPS). TPS focuses on reducing waste and maximizing efficiency in...
Mapping a Value Stream to a Kanban Board. Mapping a value stream to a Kanban board is a way to visualize and manage the flow of work through a process using the Kanban method....
Toyota Production System The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a great way to learn how to improve efficiency in the supply chain. Taiichi Ohno is the father of TPS. Toyota is a great company...
Process Improvement Quotes and Blogs Large assortment of process improvement quotes and continuous improvement blogs. 5S Factory Makeover. 5s Office to 5s Manufacturing. Lean Production System. All About Value Stream Mapping. Becoming a Lean...
This is a great video about the history of the Toyota Production System. The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a method of manufacturing developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation in the mid-20th century. It...
VIDEO: Toyota Kaizen. Great video describing Toyota Kaizen. Toyota Kaizen (continuous improvement) is well known as world class. Toyota Kaizen is one of the concepts that has made Toyota synonymous with high quality. “The...
Principles Lean Management Learn about Lean Management Principles and how they can help your company eliminate waste and create value for your customers. Toyota has a great deal of information regarding how they do...
Lean Manufacturing What is lean manufacturing? This is all about continuous improvement. Get plenty of more details here: What is Lean Manufacturing? Quotes about Lean Manufacturing “If you are going to do kaizen continuously...
