Food manufacturer conducts kaizen event to establish new maintenance program
A kaizen event was planned with maintenance managers across multiple facilities in order to improve the preventative maintenance (PM) program.
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Taiichi Ohno Quotes and Insights from “The Birth of Lean”
From the book description: “There are a lot of books that describe the Toyota Production System, but most do so
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Romac Industries earns Pollution Prevention (P2) Award for Wastewater Reduction
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?
The two most popular process improvement initiatives in businesses today are Lean and Six Sigma. Both methodologies are rooted in
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What do I do with extra resources as a result of improvement without laying them off?
One of the most important things you can do to have a successful culture of improvement is to remove any
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Introducing My Summer Intern, Teagen
From mid-May through July, I will be having a summer intern helping me out. Teagen Stalte is a student at
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BPI is a Certified B Corporation! So what does that mean?
Update: As of September 2021, we are no longer certified as a B Corporation. We were not able to achieve
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Employee engagement that will make you jealous!
One of the most difficult things for business owners and managers is to engage their employees in continuous improvements every
Read MoreHow many of the 50 Best Practices for Process Excellence has your company implemented?
Lee Pollock and Mark Kiemele are authors of a new book, Reversing the Culture of Waste – 50 Best Practices to
Read MoreReducing your time might seem like lean, but you can easily anger your customers
Lean is about increasing value to your customer. Often times, this requires you to eliminate waste in the process. However,
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