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Romac Industries earns Pollution Prevention (P2) Award for Wastewater Reduction

September 22, 2022October 12, 2022 bizpi Brion Hurley, Case Study, Department of Ecology, Impact Washington, Joshua Fowler, lean, Lean and Green, lean six sigma, Michael Johnson, Passivation, Romac Industries, Six Sigma, State of Washington, Wastewater

We are excited to announce that Romac Industries, Inc. was named the winners of the Pollution Prevention (P2) Multimedia Award

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How do Lean Techniques Improve Quality?

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 bizpi dmaic, Error Proofing, lean, lean six sigma, PDCA, Poka-Yoke, problem solving, quality, Quality Tools, Six Sigma, Standard Work, Taiichi Ohno, W. Edwards Deming

The two most popular process improvement initiatives in businesses today are Lean and Six Sigma. Both methodologies are rooted in

What do I do with extra resources as a result of improvement without laying them off?

March 7, 2019September 27, 2022 bizpi employees, extra people, extra workers, headcount, layoffs, lean, pink slip, workers

One of the most important things you can do to have a successful culture of improvement is to remove any

Introducing My Summer Intern, Teagen

June 1, 2018November 11, 2019 bizpi Appalachian State University, B Corps, Certified B Corporation, Internship, lean, Lean Six Sigma for Good, Teagen Stalte

From mid-May through July, I will be having a summer intern helping me out. Teagen Stalte is a student at

BPI is a Certified B Corporation! So what does that mean?

February 4, 2018October 13, 2021 bizpi B Corps, B the Change, Benefit Corporation, Certified B Corporation, Economic, Environment, lean, lean six sigma, Lean Six Sigma Consulting, People, Planet, Profit, Six Sigma, Social, Triple Bottom Line

Update: As of September 2021, we are no longer certified as a B Corporation. We were not able to achieve

Employee engagement that will make you jealous!

May 16, 2015November 11, 2019 bizpi 2 second lean, employee engagement, everyday lean, lean, paul akers, simple lean, Six Sigma, Toyota, toyota production system, TPS

One of the most difficult things for business owners and managers is to engage their employees in continuous improvements every

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How many of the 50 Best Practices for Process Excellence has your company implemented?

November 29, 2012October 13, 2022 bizpi 50, assessment, benchmarking, best practices, book, company, comparison, excellence, improvement, lean, pollock, process, qmss, score, Six Sigma, waste

Lee Pollock and Mark Kiemele are authors of a new book, Reversing the Culture of Waste – 50 Best Practices to

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Reducing your time might seem like lean, but you can easily anger your customers

August 18, 2012November 11, 2019 bizpi business, customers, data, document, efficiency, employees, improvement, lean, optimization, problems, reduce, report, satisfaction, Six Sigma, sub, time, upset, value, waste

Lean is about increasing value to your customer. Often times, this requires you to eliminate waste in the process. However,

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We don’t need any help, we are already lean!

July 25, 2012October 13, 2022 bizpi cycle time, deliver, employees, errors, improvement, lean, manufacturing, measure, multitasking, office, process, quality, reviews, Six Sigma, templates, throughput, transactional, value, wip, workplace

“Lean and Six Sigma are only for manufacturing organizations!” “Our processes/company is unique, so that won’t work here!” “We’re already

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Cost savings from process improvements can be misleading

April 25, 2011November 11, 2019 bizpi bottom line, chart, completions, cycle time, event, excel, financials, improvement, lean, process, project, reductions, savings, Six Sigma, variation, waste, wip

I’ve been to many conferences, and have seen lots of companies claim cost savings and metric improvements that are very

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LSS Bursts Podcast

Lean Six Sigma Bursts

We share our takes and thoughts on a variety of topics related to process improvement (specifically Lean and Six Sigma methods), Bursts are rapid improvement activities, so this sounded like a good word to use for these short audio clips. We’ll try to keep them under 5 minutes each.

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E67: Why Single-stall Production Systems are more efficient than Assembly Lines

byBrion Hurley

In this episode, I explain what a “single-stall production system” means, and why it is superior to the traditional single piece flow assembly line.

Single-stall is a method of work where one highly skilled worker is trained to perform all steps of the process by themselves (often in one stall to reduce floor space), instead of handing off the work to multiple workers in an assembly line.

It can take months or years to develop their skills so they can perform each step at high quality, but it can be the most efficient way to complete a process from beginning to completion.

I share a link to an article I wrote below, and in the episode I explain the videos in the article that better explain the difference between single-stalls and assembly lines.

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