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  • consultant and plant leaders rebuilding a lean system on the production floor

    Rebuilding Lean: How to Restore Operational Excellence After the Drift

    Ed Hoffman

  • Manufacturing quality problem solving: a Pareto chart showing concentrated defect categories on a shop floor.

    Stop Spreading the Peanut Butter: A Practical Guide to Quality Problem Solving in Manufacturing

    Todd Hanlin

  • Faded lean manufacturing visual board on an empty assembly line floor

    The Forgotten Assembly Line: How Lean System Fatigue and Leadership Drift Erode Manufacturing

    Ed Hoffman

  • value-stream-mapping-bottleneck-kaizen

    Value Stream Mapping: The Strategic-Tactical Framework That Turns Bottlenecks Into Breakthroughs

    Tim Mason

  • Kaizen leadership as part of operational excellence rollout

    Kaizen Leadership: Making Operational Excellence Stick

    Bob Morin

  • worker-using-walkie-talkie-in-manufacturing-plant

    Continuous Improvement Should Be Boring. Here’s Why That’s the Point.

    Tim Christlieb

  • Operational excellence leaders building a continuous improvement culture through purpose and learning.

    Operational Excellence Leadership Means Building a Continuous Improvement Culture

    Bob Morin

  • technician-using-tablet-in-an-industrial-setting

    Visual Management in Manufacturing: How 5S Creates a Shop Floor Anyone Can Read at a Glance

    Jorge Sandoval

  • Continuous improvement leadership team reviewing operational performance against a long-term improvement chart.

    Continuous Improvement Leadership: Why Declaring Victory Is the Fastest Way to Lose Ground

    Ed Hoffman