Tag: 5S

I saw the following in a submission for a session at the 2012 Society for Health Systems conference, where I'm the Lean track chair. One...

I've recently had an email exchange with a retiree who is volunteering in a non-profit hospice care facility. I'm sharing this thoughts with his...

As Mark Graban stated in a recent post, "People fear or assume that a factory is...mindless, monotonous, repetitive..."  These sentiments may come from observation...

You might have read my blog post from last week about an unsafe taxi driver and medical errors -  Said the Unsafe Taxi Driver,...

I had the most amazing morning a few weeks ago when I was in Cincinnati for the TechSolve lean healthcare event. Thanks to...

I received a question from a reader, a retiree from a manufacturing company who is now a volunteer for a healthcare organization. We have...

Here's a fun stop-motion video - I presume it's from Australia or New Zealand?? I don't know the backstory of the video yet. It shows...

It seems to be an annual event to see a news story about a New Zealand emergency department, Dunedin Hospital (not pictured at left)...

There's a series of airplane photos, of South Africa's Kalula Airlines, that have been going around the web, including being posted in some blogs...

When I was traveling last week, a magazine caught my eye, one I don't normally read: Scientific American Mind and the article  "Cubicle, Sweet...

I'd like to welcome a new sponsor to my blog, LeanPosters.com. You'll find their ad in the right hand column... As is the case with...

I'd like to welcome a new advertiser to LeanBlog.org -- it's 5S Supply, found online at www.5Ssupply.com. I've talked with the owner, Tony Manos, and...