by Tim Floyd | Oct 22, 2018 | Lean Implementation
Almost all of our customers believe in lean and would say they have a fully integrated, operational lean system. At some point though, when they’re far enough on the lean journey, they start to ask themselves if there wasn’t something they missed somewhere along the...
by Tim Floyd | Jun 14, 2018 | 5S
Just like “lean manufacturing”, “Toyota Production System”, and “continuous improvement”, 5S is a term that gets thrown around a lot but the approach is often misunderstood. Even more important than the standard definition of “What is 5S” is “Why” you would want to...
by Tim Floyd | Jun 11, 2018 | Lean Manufacturing
Mark Twain said, “Humor is the good-natured side of a truth”. One of Geolean’s principles is to have fun at work, to the extent that we don’t call our customer visits meetings, we call them field trips. These field trips allow us to experience truth and humor from our...
by Tim Floyd | May 3, 2018 | Lean Manufacturing
The idea of “lean” appears all over the business press – lean healthcare, lean management, lean startup, lean manufacturing – name a context and industry and you’ve seen lean applied to it. Everyone is trying to get lean, hold kaizen events, do 5S,...
by Tim Floyd | Mar 6, 2018 | Continuous Improvement
Although the terms lean manufacturing and continuous improvement are thrown around and used interchangeably, they are not the same. Lean manufacturing is a business operating system, originating from the Toyota System, with applications across industries. Continuous...
