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Six Sigma – 6σ

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What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was developed by Motorola in 1986. Jack Welch made it central to his business strategy at General Electric in 1995. Today, it is used in many industrial sectors. Six Sigma seeks to improve […]

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5S

What is 5S? 5S is the name of a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri, seiton,...

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5 Whys

What is 5 Whys? The 5 Whys is an iterative question-asking technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships...

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Kaizen

What is Kaizen? Kaizen, Japanese for “good change”. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-coaching,...

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Lean Manufacturing

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What is Lean Manufacturing? Lean manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, or lean production, often simply, “lean“, is a production philosophy that considers the expenditure of resources in any aspect other than the direct creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination. Working from the […]

Kanban

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What is Kanban? Kanban (literally signboard or billboard in Japanese) is a scheduling system for lean and just-in-time (JIT) production. Kanban is a system to control the logistical chain from a production point of view, and is not an inventory control system. Kanban was developed by Taiichi Ohno, at Toyota, […]