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Category Archives: TPM
Check For Understanding
One of the teams I am working with is in the middle of an Autonomous Maintenance (TPM) launch. The team has been doing a good job of identifying defects on their equipment and correcting these defects seems to be helping. … Continue reading
Can You Sustain?
John is excited about launching TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and is seeing the benefits already. Autonomous Maintenance (AM) is a critical TPM pillar. John is leading two pilot AM teams and both are doing better than anyone expected. Line efficiencies … Continue reading
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Tagged lean manufacturing, OEE, Overall equipment effectiveness, Total Productive Maintenance, tpm
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Standard Work on Your Packaging Line
Beyond Lean has a series of blogs on the subject of Standard Work that ran last week. Matt Wrye was kind enough to ask me to guest blog. This post originally ran there: Our new team is coming together for their … Continue reading
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Tagged Best practice, continuos improvement, food processing, leadership, lean, lean manufacturing, standard work, Supervisor, Team leader, tpm
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Standard Work Week at Beyond Lean
Our new team is coming together for their 7 a.m. work session. This team is working through the steps of Autonomous Maintenance and is working through their agenda when the area supervisor approaches the team. His support is a welcome … Continue reading
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Tagged Best practice, continuos improvement, food processing, leadership, lean, lean manufacturing, standard work, Team leader, tpm
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The Pareto Principle is Dangerous?
There are many benefits to the Pareto Principle (aka the 80-20 Rule) for those who want to get the most bang for the buck. I am a big fan of this philosophy since we are all working with limited time … Continue reading
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Tagged continuos improvement, food processing, Joseph M. Juran, leadership, lean manufacturing, Pareto Principle, tpm
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