Tag: Flinchbaugh

Why do many of our best companies move to China or other countries? Some do it for the lower labor rates, but just as...

Lean is very prevalent in manufacturing because manufacturing needs so much help. Jobs are being lost and profits and struggling, and so lean is...

This particular post is about as overdue as my contributions to LeanBlog, but it's always better to be late than never. Given how far...

by Jamie Flinchbaugh, co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to LeanDecades of knowledge in lean have been passed on, written down, turned into curriculums and...

Although I haven't been posting in the blog recently (sorry), I have been doing some writing, and thought I would share some of that...

The reason Andy Carlino and I named our book The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road is that we felt that not...

Here are the two most recent "Leading Lean" columns from Jamie Flinchbaugh:April 2007: Consistency Erodes Skepticism Here, Jamie maps out "a route through the...

Blog reader Darrin wrote and asked:Do you have any up-to-date sources for "word-class" numbers for lean metrics like % of Leadtime that is wasted,...

ASSEMBLY MagazineJamie Flinchbaugh has a new "Leading Lean" column in assembly magazine. Here's a great story, an example of "because we've always...

Here is the final installment of the lean Q&A, but if you have more questions, please feel free to comment here and I'll post...

I recently posted some Lean Q&A. These questions came from an Industry Week webcast that I did with sponsor Infor, and there were plenty...

A few of you may know that a couple weeks ago I did a webcast for Industry Week. For those of you attended, thank...