In Phase 5, you press the accelerator, and add to all the foundation your built in Phase 4.

This video is a narrated presentation of our Value Stream Mapping Overview class. It covers what a VSM is, why it is useful, how to make the current state map, and more.

This recorded webinar talks about creating winning teams in a continuous improvement culture. It features Jeff Hajek and Tim McMahon.

This recorded webinar talks about how you can check the progress of your Lean journey. If features Jeff Hajek and Tim McMahon.

This recorded webinar talks about creating an infrastructure that supports continuous improvement. Features Jeff Hajek and Tim McMahon.
Learn more about Tim at http://www.aleanjourney.com.

This video is a narrated presentation of our Quality Overview class. It covers the definition of quality, several ways to look at it, and ways to improve it.

Much of the work in a factory is dedicated to turning raw materials into components that can be assembled into a finished product. Quite often, though, the majority of the people working in that company never venture back into the depths of this generally loud, dirty place.
This video is intended...

Learn why 100% inspections are not really the indicator of good quality that they seem to be.
Read more about this concept in our Lean Guide at https://www.velaction.com/100-percent-inspection/

Slight variations on parts can 'stack up' to cause a system to be out of spec, even when all the parts are within spec. Learn more in this term from our CI Development Guide.

Poka yoke (mistake proofing) devices are among the best ways to improve quality, as they prevent errors before they can cause defects. This recorded webinar discusses how to put poka yokes in place.

THIS IS A LEGACY VIDEO. Legacy videos are are early efforts. Still great content, but the resolut...

This short video is a narrated PowerPoint presentation from our Lean Training System. It goes beyond our Working with Metrics and Managing with Metrics videos, and does a deep dive into the metrics that relate to specific, important customer requirements.

One of the questions I get asked is about whether or not individual employee metrics should be tracked.

Overproduction and batching tend to create or hide other forms of waste. In this video, I discuss how a mistake was compounded by overproduction.