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Do You Need Lean Thinking?

10 July, 2012 by James Lawther 5 Comments

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The term “Lean Thinking” first came into use in 1996 when James Womack and Daniel Jones published their book of the same name.  The book distilled their thoughts after studying the Toyota manufacturing business.  A lean, waste free organisation. Since then, those first lean ideas have come on a long way.  They are no longer […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: defects, lean thinking, over-processing, over-production, stock, transportation waste, waiting, waste, wasted intellect, wasted motion

Good Service?

9 March, 2010 by James Lawther 1 Comment

My wife has a new car, a BMW; the ultimate driving machine apparently. She took it in for its first service yesterday.  She was met at the door by a smartly dressed gentleman with a “Good morning Mrs Lawther”, presumably he had a list of registration numbers to look out for.  Unfortunately there was a […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: customer focus, rework, transportation waste, waiting

Brain Scan

8 December, 2009 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Ambulance

Glasgow’s Western infirmary owns a £500,000 CT scanner (computerised tomography if you must know, though I am not much wiser).  Apparently it is used to scan patients’ brains if they are thought to have had a stroke. Unfortunately it has been idle for the past six months as the radiographer who operated it left the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: capacity, medicine, silo management, transportation waste

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