sustaining

Lessons from the Road: Sustaining Your 5S Efforts

by Jamie Flinchbaugh on 05-19-11

My 2nd installment of Lessons from the Road, my new column for Industry Week is now available. This month the topic is Sustaining Your 5S Efforts. One of my early columns for Assembly Magazine titled Planning 5S? First Know Why! 5 years later, it’s still one of the most popular

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Motivation and Incentives in the Lean Company

by Jamie Flinchbaugh on 05-11-10

  Some groups don’t have to worry about motivation. Sports teams, for example, are filled with people who want to win, or at least enjoy trying. But for most of us, don’t have motivation so easy. Truly lean organizations have demonstrated a higher level of motivation, incentive, and engagement. In

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Plan for Sustainability, Don’t Just Hope For It

by Jamie Flinchbaugh on 05-06-10

Kaizen event, A3 projects, DMAIC projects – you name it, projects get done and results are generated. But… Are the results sustained? Too often the gains deteriorate over time. There are many reasons from the culture to changing priorities. But at the very least, we should be doing what we

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