Management Articles by Jamie Flinchbaugh

• Using Integrated Management Systems to Design a Lean Factory   view details
  Another excellent article from the CQM Journal. The author explores how to design in lean manufacturing when setting up a production system.

• Beyond Lean: Building Sustainable Business and People Success through New Ways of Thinking   view details
  

• Bringing Lean Systems Thinking to Six Sigma   view details
  "Traditional lean efforts will help you reduce flow time and waste, leading to improvements that will boost overall quality. Six Sigma, with its focus on statistics, will help you deliver a more consistent product. But to fully support your long-term goal

• Getting Lean Right   view details
  "So how is it that such a low percentage of companies that know about lean can turn it into a success? It's not because they haven't heard about continuous flow, or they don't know how to do the 5S's, or they've never seen a kaizen workshop. It is because

• Leading Lean: Missed Opportunity   view details
  "However, once pull production is implemented, you no longer have your security blanket. You must deal with a problem immediately or your company feels the pain."

• Planning 5S First Know Why!   view details
  "The true purpose of 5S is to spot problems quickly." More information on 5s.

• The Extraordinary Vision of Henry Ford   view details
  "The second distinguishing characteristic of Ford's vision was that it was multidimensional. Henry Ford looked at every aspect of his business to achieve his grand vision: product, process and people. His product vision was based on interchangeable parts

• The Lean Toolbox   view details
  "You can read about and understand the tools of lean in just about any quality management book. You can delegate the application and implementation to just about anyone--engineers, hourly workers, lean facilitators and the like. But you cannot succeed wit

• Leading Lean: Make Everything Visual   view details
  "Visual management is an approach to managing information, decisions and standardization so that anyone can tell at a glance whether everything is normal or abnormal and what should be done next... Pick one decision point, make it visual, and youve just

• Test for Actual Use, not Intended Use   view details
  

• Bring Lean to Your Sales Team   view details
  "Another example is experimentation and reflection. By teaching the fundamentals of Plan-Do-Check-Act, the sales team can test out new ideas, messages and techniques with rigor. They can establish a common means by which to experiment, and ultimately to share best practices. The third step is to work on processes that cross boundaries. Many processes that go into product development, manufacturing or finance begin in sales at some point. These process are often broken, or at least inefficient. Lean can connect them, but it will require collaboration."