Japan Lean Tour – Learning 1 – Improving your organisation everyday       “Improve what we can, now, one step at a time.” Mr. KOSAKA, former Toyota plant manager     Many organisations we see put in place suggestion boxes to gather bottom up ideas. Often, they struggle to  create enthusiasm around this system. When asking people, the same answer often comes back: “We…

The 8 types of Waste in Manufacturing In the following infographic we summarise the different types of losses you can find in a production environment. We see "Waste" as non-value adding activities, i.e. what the customer doesn't want to pay for. Make sure you keep all of these different wastes in your radar, because some of them might be interdependent.…