Lean Articles

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is simply how much your machine is working effectively within a given time frame. It is a best practice to identify the percentage of planned production time that is productive. There is a lot of confusion out there about the words efficiency and effectiveness. We [...]

A two bin system is a simple, visually-based method for stocking and replacing items that is used. It is common on assembly and moving production lines where elements units are added to the merchandise. One bin is the working bin, where items for manufacture and sale are taken from. [...]

In “One piece flow” production, the product transfers from one phase to the next phase with one piece at a time. This approach is different from lot production where a number of units are prepared at an agreed stage and then every unit is moved to the next level [...]

Mind maps are a convenient and easy way of brainstorming your thoughts and ideas fundamentally. It provides a visual structure for your thoughts and ideas and makes them easy to analyze and remember. Mind maps are diagrammatic representation of chores, confabulations, conceptions or features that are connected to single [...]

Visual Management Systems also known as VMS is basically a technique executed to share data and information with the help of visual signals instead of texts or verbal instructions. The system is designed to enable quick and better comprehension of the data by everyone to increase clarity and efficiency [...]

By the name of spaghetti diagram, only spaghetti comes to mind which is straight, thin and hard if uncooked. Cooked spaghetti are flexible, soft and moldable. So, yes this diagram is made of the elastic and moldable pattern. Cooked spaghetti looks messy in a dish; it can also bend [...]