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Article: Ready, set, monitor: is MDI in your lean production system?
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- Industrial Engineer
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Companies devote significant resources to implement lean production systems. Process improvement teams spend weeks at a time performing continuous improvement events that redesign manufacturing and transactional processes for better productivity and efficiency. Many times, the improvement does not last. The team may have done everything right during the kaizen event, but what about the follow-up?
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Sloppy surveillance of altered processes and lackluster results are due to thinking about kaizen as an event rather than a strategy. All too often, the cross-functional team completes its initial kaizen implementation, celebrates the ...