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What is Visual Management as a Lean Tool?

In order to continuously improve and progress as an organization, people need to observe, communicate and share information.

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Reduce your Changeover Time with SMED!

SMED, while focused on manufacturing and equipment, can be applied to a wide variety of organizations.

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What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)?

This Lean manufacturing technique focuses on the relationship between the operators and their machines.

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Paul Akers: “Fix What Bugs You!”

"Lean is not about being organized, because you can organize waste."

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Washington State is Hungry for Lean Learning

Over 2,000 attendees from hundreds of different departments and agencies gathered to hear experts, share success stories and learn the common language of Lean.

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Taking Lean Out of the Factory and Into the World

Entrepreneurs are taking the lessons of Lean and expanding them outside the traditional manufacturing world.

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How Do I Create Employee Engagement?

Employee Engagement is difficult to define and even harder to create but it is absolutely essential to a highly functioning organization.

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Seeing the Big Picture: Value Stream Mapping

Using Lean techniques like 5S and SMED, you can easily reduce waste on individual processes.

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True Kaizen is a Journey not a Destination

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