Guide
Insights on lean, processes and change.
36 of 40 articles
How mature is your plant really? An honest self-test
Every plant manager has a picture of how good their plant is. It is rarely accurate. A maturity check replaces gut feeling with a shared, verifiable assessment of where you stand.
The best process in the world fails on a bad Monday
The method was right, the board was up, the standard was in place. Six months later everything is as it was. Lean rarely fails on the technology, almost always on the people. What that means for your leadership.
The first 90 days after the audit decide everything
The audit report has arrived, the team is waiting to see what happens. What has to happen in the first 90 days so that findings turn into change that can be seen in the hall and in the office.
How to lead people who do not report to you
Lean managers, project leaders and process owners are not allowed to give orders and are still expected to deliver results. It works, if plant management plays its part.
Ten projects at once is not a strategy
When everything runs at once, nothing gets finished. I show how to sort projects honestly, cut visibly and still keep the people who got involved.
When the team pushes back, it is usually right
Whoever fights resistance loses the people they need. Whoever reads it finds the flaw in the initiative. A practical guide for plant managers and department heads.
Why your lean programme quietly died, and how to bring it back to life
The posters are still up, the boards are empty, the lean department is fighting alone. I show where lean programmes really fail and how to restart honestly.
Three plants, one standard? Why copying does not work
In the lead plant, lean works; in the other plants it stays on paper. Why copying standards fails and how to transfer the principle instead of the template.
KPIs nobody reads, and the one that changes everything
The KPIs hang on the board, the behaviour in the hall stays the same. Why that is, and how OEE, lead time and delivery performance become tools that teams use to steer themselves.