Lean manufacturing
Yamazumi and line balancing: making workload visible
A chart that stacks operator workloads against takt time. The simplest way to find the bottleneck and redistribute work.
4 October 2026 · 1 min
Blog and guides
Articles on suggestion systems, Kaizen, 5S and employee participation.
Sample company · demo data 
Sample company · demo data Lean manufacturing
SMED: four steps to shorter changeovers
Separate internal and external work, convert internal to external, streamline the rest. How a SMED study is run.
3 October 2026 · 1 min
Sample company · demo data Lean manufacturing · 5S
5S steps and staged audits: sort, set, shine, standardise, sustain
5S is not a cleaning campaign but an order system. The steps, and how an area advances stage by stage.
2 October 2026 · 1 min
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The 8 wastes in lean manufacturing: how to see them on the floor
From waiting to overproduction, from unnecessary motion to unused talent. The eight wastes with examples and how to measure them.
1 October 2026 · 1 min