Lean Basics and Lean Leadership

• What is Lean Manufacturing?
• Lean and Six Sigma: Which One Should You Choose?
• What is Kaizen?
• The 7 Manufacturing Wastes: Muda
• The 7 Wastes in Administrative Processes
• Implementing Lean Manufacturing
• Can a Lean Transformation Help Manage Growth?
• 5 Things MedTech Leaders Need to Know About Lean
• 7 Critical Success Factors for Lean Leaders

• Lean Transformation Action Plan
• Lean Manufacturing Versus Six Sigma
• Lean Manufacturing Overview
• Lean Leadership: Factors Undermining Your Lean Transformation
• Lean Leadership: A Tale of Two Companies
• Lean Works in Any Organization
• Lean Improvement Model
• Lean in an Office Environment
• Lean in a Growing Economy

• Lean and Operational Excellence for Healthcare
• Lean Strategy Deployment
• Lean Standard Work
• Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Recall Crisis Part 1
• Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Recall Crisis Part 2
• Turning Executive Vision into Action

Lean Culture

• Creating an Environment for Continuous Improvement
• Developing a Foundation for Lean
• Generating Ideas: Kaizen and Lean Culture
• The Improvement Kata

• Lean Culture
• Lean Culture at Toyota
• Lean and the Learning Organization
• Lean Daily Management: Daily Huddles

• Toyota's Learning Organization
• Training and Education in a Lean Enterprise
• Lean Meetings: 5 Ideas for More Efficient Meetings
• Lean and COVID: Lessons Learned
• Lean Training Approaches

Lean Problem Solving and Mistake Proofing

• Lean Problem Solving and Culture Change
• PDCA and A3 Reporting
• A3 Problem Solving with Example (Medical Device Online Magazine)
• 8D Problem Solving and Root Cause Analysis
• Problem Solving and Lean

• Problem Solving: Defining the Problem
• Problem Solving: Gap Analysis
• Problem Solving: Countermeasures
• Mistake Proofing Overview
• 7 Keys to Mistake Proofing

• Using Mistake Proofing in Product Design
• Webinar: ABC's of Problem Solving Including A3 Thinking, Culture Change, Defining Problems, and Root Cause Analysis

5S, Quick Changeover, and Total Productive Maintenance

• Effective 5S
• 5S Implementation
• 5s and Improving Flow
• 5S in a Healthcare Environment
• Sustaining 5S

• Quick Changeover and SMED: An Overview
• How to Implement a Quick Changeover Program
• Quick Changeover for Non-traditional Applications
• Quick Changeover and EPEI
• Quick Changeover Kaizen Case Study

• TPM Overview
• Implementing TPM
• Toyota and TPM

Kaizen Events and Value Stream Mapping

• The Power of Kaizen
• Planning and Conducting Kaizen Events
• Design for Manufacturability Kaizen Events
• How and When to Use Kaizen Events

• What is Value Stream Mapping?
• Identifying Your Value Streams
• Value Stream Mapping: Mapping the Current State
• Value Stream Mapping: Mapping the Future State

• Value Stream Mapping Administrative Processes
• Value Stream Mapping for Software Development: Part 1 (Current State)
• Value Stream Mapping for Software Development: Part 2 (Future State)

Connecting Flow: Continuous Flow and Pull Systems

• Cellular Manufacturing and Flow
• What is Continuous Flow?
• What is One Piece Flow
• One Piece Flow Kaizen Event Case Study
• Implementing Continuous Flow Cells
• Types of Manufacturing Cells

• Achieving Basic Stability to Support Flow
• Achieving One Piece Flow
• Lean Production Control: Pull Systems
• Kanban: Are You Ready?
• Heijunka: Leveling the Load

• Implementing Level Pull
• Leveling Workload: Overview plus 3 Examples
• A Case Study In Replenishment Pull
• Applying Pull Systems

Lean Supply Chain

• Supplier Relationships in a Lean Enterprise
• Make Versus Buy: Considerations When Outsourcing
• Outsourcing and the Extended Value Stream

• Key Metrics of the Extended Lean Enterprise
• 7 Wastes of the Extended Value Stream
• Toyota's Extended Lean Enterprise

• Lean Supply Chain Blog