SME member Jeff Fuchs, a lean consultant and author of the DVD explains, “Whether it’s your check engine light, a smoke detector, or child-proof caps, poka-yoke is all around us. It can make life ...

People make mistakes all the time, sometimes even without knowing they’re wrong. It may take years to discover the error of your ways. Most recently, popular writer ...

What is it that contractors are giving away by not doing the work right the first time? Is it a floor, an HVAC system or even a whole building? Studies and logic prove that doing something right the ...

Poka-Yoke is a Japanese management style created by Toyota executive Shigeo Shingo in the 1960s that focuses on mistake-proofing operations. Furniture-maker Allsteel has relied on it since the ...

This article is the second article of a series of two. To read the first, please click here. Workers have to successfully utilize organizational systems in order to accomplish their work. The ...

Here are three tips gleaned from the report, but there are hundreds of others. Keep items commonly used in plain sight, and remove items that are rarely used, or for which usage requires more skill, ...

When it comes to the level of quality acceptable in today's manufacturing environment, there is no negotiation. Machines must produce 100% perfect parts. When it comes to the level of quality ...