Dec 28th 2015

Answers to burning questions on lean

How can one draw a value stream map for a situation where hundreds parts go through different sequence of machines with different processing times and with a batch size of close to one? What do you think of lean and green thinking? How do you define lean? Does it matter?  Read Michael Ballé, co-author of The Gold Mine, The Lean Manager, Lead With Respect, and most recently, The Gold Mine Trilogy Study Guide answers to these questions and several others. Read more…