Lean

My Lean resources are organized in five sections:

Lean Basics

Chris HOHMANN – Author

Lean means many things, difficult to pack into a concise yet faithful definition

• Dan Jones and Jim Womack give their definition of Lean
• Mike Rother’s definition of Lean
• The difficult definition of Lean
• Definition of Lean in 15 words
• Value, value-added, value stream
• Is Lean about eliminating waste or not?

Lean tools

• Visual Management for easy counting (video)
• ABC analysis for efficient picking
• FIFO & LIFO (video)
• The very minimum to know about Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• A3 Reports and A3 problem solving >Deeper into A3 reports >Four uses of A3 reports
• Hoshin Kanri or policy deployment

>More Lean basics

Lean Management

For most of the people, first exposure to Lean was through methods and tools. It was, as Lean thinker and guru Jim Womack puts it: the “tool age”.

After a while, tools and methods prove powerful but not sufficient by themselves to sustain the good results. It is necessary to enter the age of Lean Management.

>More Lean Management

Lean Engineering

• Three major challenges for development & engineering
• Prospective thinking: How can Lean help shaping the future?

>More Lean engineering

Lean in the digital age

What will happen to Lean when factories go smart with the industrial internet (Internet of Things) ? >Read

Lean Startup

A special series of posts deals with “how Lean can help startups”

• Introduction
• How Lean can help startups – Do not repeat mistakes of established companies 1/2
• How Lean can help startups – Do not repeat mistakes of established companies 2/2

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