QUESTION: I am trying to develop a list of metrics to drive our continuous improvement efforts. What questions should I be asking myself to develop this list? And how many do you think I should focus ...

As a follow-up to my last column, 'Must Have' Metrics for Continuous Improvement, the next must-have metrics are first pass yield (FPY) and rolled throughput yield (RTY). While most companies I visit ...

The reason? They simply don’t realize how important measurement is. What a team accomplishes in its day-to-day tasks has a direct impact on the success of the product. TNW City Coworking space - Where ...

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It’s common to talk about quality and continuous improvement in the context of manufacturing. Methodologies such as ISO, lean and Lean Six Sigma are a means to improve business efficiency and ...

Progress implies change. Not all change is progress, but all progress requires change. Change can be planned or unplanned. Libraries have experienced some serious unplanned changes in the recent past; ...

Kanban is more than just a board on a wall, it is a way of working that focuses on continuous improvement through evolutionary change. Kanban starts with understanding your current state of work and ...

In the parable of the bricklayers, a traveler encounters three workers mortaring rows of bricks onto other bricks. “What are you doing?” inquires the traveler. The first worker answers, “What does it ...

Continuous Improvement (CI) is a term we hear a lot lately. Sadly, despite knowing the term and possibly even applying CI principles to some aspects of operations, CI principles are infrequently ...