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We share observations and insights into proven approaches to trigger deeper understanding and helpful advice. Let us know what you have experienced, your critical challenges and what made you successful.
Implementing Discipline
If you want to destroy discipline, go ahead and install foolish rules. That will make the best people break these rules for good reason…
A Bloody Tool Selection: Turn Operational Excellence tools into torture instruments with the right misuse!
Trick #1: Haunted House of Horrors – alias House of Quality
Force decision makers into the same dark room for four days and ask them to discuss 25×25 matrices in all the details aligning on rating between zero and ten…
Are you still managing or already leading to get better – about rules in Operations
Talking about Leadership usually means reflecting about listening skills, feedback, delegating, responsibility etc. We want to discuss an additional topic: Rules.
Boost real life competence in Operational Excellence by training
Many trainers are a lot of fun to listen to. Many trainings are exciting to participate in. Although they can be great and fun, they are not necessarily useful.
Performance Management: What you see when walking the Gemba
Performance is visually tracked in an easy-to-understand way. And what’s tracked has real time updates.
This means: At one glance it is clear, the recent hours’ or latest shift’s performance was good or bad. It shows whether targets were met…
Gemba Walking: Mind the people
Mind the people – 3 points to pay attention to when GEMBA walking. The best thing about going to see “the real place” is meeting the real people. Your goals are to raise motivation, trigger ideas for improvement and ensure people can perform. 1. Interest shows...
Gemba Walking: Focus on Standards – 3 Tips for adding more value
Going to Gemba, your role is to ensure Standard Work is actually happening. 1. Goal Orientation Before you start, make up your mind: Where do you expect Standard Work to be in place? Where is transparency, quality or efficiency crucial to this place? Here you would...
Top 10 Lean Manufacturing Consulting/Services Companies
Manufacturing Technology Insights Magazin oConsulting is one of the Top 10 Lean Manufacturing Consulting/Services Companies The constringent transition and adoption to lean manufacturing is hard enough, but coupled with the complexity of keeping production and ROI...
Pen-Operated White Boards in times of Digitalization?
“Really a board?” – we hear many of our clients ask. “Why not a screen bringing online data to the shopfloor?” … This would be “no effort” as data is directly taken from the system and it brings the spirit of digitalization, doesn’t it… ? Yes AND no. A quick deep-dive...
CPV – ein Hundevirus?
Nein, damit ist nicht der CPV Hundevirus gemeint! Obwohl die Methodik hier und da ähnlich erfreut willkommen geheißen wird, wie ein Sack Hundeflöhe. Zu Unrecht, sagen wir! CPV “Continued Process Verification” bzw. OVP „Ongoing Process Verification“ ist ein Werkzeug...