As a Lean practitioner, I often hear and see teams struggle to identify the need to improve. Sometimes employees flat out say “we don’t have any problems” or “we are already Lean.” There might be observable indicators such as Performance Boards continuously showing “on-track” statuses or outdated Standard Work. These…
I have been in the Continuous Improvement field for about 12 years now. It has been an amazing journey filled with awesome teams, amazing mentors, a lot of challenges but, most of all, a lot of meaningful work. It drives my passion for helping others to continuously improve how they…
Properly collecting data involves Data Collection Plans, Check Sheets and Spreadsheets, but how do they all work together? Data collection is critical to every phase of DMAIC; Creating a measurable problem statement, establishing the baseline, searching for causal data, measuring improvement and, finally, monitoring to maintain the gains. There are…
