Kaizen Factory – Lean – Agile – Digitization & more

I’ve worked in many Lean and Operational Excellence initiatives and know that people is key. I know you know this too. It does not matter how well you apply Lean principles, they are useless if people are not on board. I call this “the F1 car without...

DMAIC, as a scientific problem solving method, is typically used in Six Sigma projects to reduce variation in processes to improve baseline process performance. Such projects are often integrated in improvement strategies and follow midterm or longterm...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is an important tool to reduce lead time in production processes and services. Therefore analysis of value streams significantly contributes to elimination of waste in processes or makes waste visible, respectively. For conducting...

Human errors are human. Human errors do always occur. This is how it always has been. But is this really true when we are talking about system thinking and operational excellence? Well, it’s a question of the perspective how you are looking at processes...