There are many different tools that you can use  within the different phases of 5S.

One of the most important part of a sustainable 5S culture is the 5S mini audit (

Value Stream Mapping is one of the most used tools in Lean manufacturing to map the flow of your process.

Sustainable 5S, a short book by Thijs Panneman, describes how you can use the widely used lean tool 5S to in

This is the second article on D2MAIC projects.

As a real lean enthusiast, I am stunned how many people introduce lean tools in their processes without success.

In Lean Transformations, Thijs Panneman describes the crucial steps of different lean tools, so that they di

In his book, Leading With Lean, Philip Holt describes the role of leaders in any organization in transformin

In his book Lean Audit, Joerg Muenzing describes how an effective Lean Audit can help assess the maturity of

This is the third article in the series about the D²MAIC project structure for yellow belts.

Projects are an important part of every lean program.

In his book Design For Operational Excellence (Duggan, 2012), Kevin J.

Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) is a tool developed by Shingo to reduce change over times on machines.

In their book The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis describe 4 stages of Leadersh

In ‘the Lean Start-Up’, Eric Ries describes the challenges of starting a new business, and how the lean philosophy ca

In his book, creating a Lean R&D system, Terence Barnhart describes how the lean philosophy can be trans

Value stream mapping is the tool that is used to improve process flow.

The A3 is a tool that is used within Toyota as management tool (Shook, 2008).

In his book Hoshin Kanri for the lean enterprise, Thomas Jackson describes Toyota´s model for Policy deployment: hosh

In the Toyota Production Development System, James M. Morgan and Jeffrey K.

The sixth building in the fortress of change is the MON

In his book Office Kaizen, William Lareau describes a lean model which helps eliminating waste in an office

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is one of the most important lean tools, used to improve the flow of materials and informa

Next to improving the flow of goods and services in a value stream, Lean also focusses on improving the flow of probl

Lean distinguishes itself form other methods by focusing mainly on time.

A Lean organization is driven by its standards.