CI Development System Resources
7 Seasons
We have an extensive Continuous Improvement Development Guide to help you progress through the phases of creating a continuous improvement oriented business management system.
The sheer number of topics (and videos) to digest is daunting. This series is intended to help guide you through these resources in an organized manner.
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Phase 5 Overview. Continuous Improvement Development System
Episode 1
In Phase 5, you press the accelerator, and add to all the foundation your built in Phase 4.
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Phase 5 CI Development System Checklist (PDF)
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This is the PDF version of the Phase 5 checklist. The full, editable version is available in our Corporate Resources Add-on pack.
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Phase 5 Section Directory CI Development Guide
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8 Ways to Develop Winning Teams in Lean Companies
Episode 2
This recorded webinar talks about creating winning teams in a continuous improvement culture. It features Jeff Hajek and Tim McMahon.
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56:19Episode 3
Checking Your Lean Progress
Episode 3
This recorded webinar talks about how you can check the progress of your Lean journey. If features Jeff Hajek and Tim McMahon.
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8 Ways to Create an Infrastructure that Supports Lean
Episode 4
This recorded webinar talks about creating an infrastructure that supports continuous improvement. Features Jeff Hajek and Tim McMahon.
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07:33Episode 5
Line Stop (Audio Term)
Episode 5
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15:15Episode 6
Fabrication (Video Term)
Episode 6
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.
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06:16Episode 7
100% Inspection
Episode 7
Learn why 100% inspections are not really the indicator of good quality that they seem to be.
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06:26Episode 8
Tolerance Stackup (Video Term)
Episode 8
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.
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Should We Track Individual Employee Metrics?
Episode 9
One of the questions I get asked is about whether or not individual employee metrics should be tracked.
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Practice What I Preach: How Batching Caused Me More Work (Lean Lesson)
Episode 10
Overproduction and batching tend to create or hide other forms of waste. In this video, I discuss how a mistake was compounded by overproduction.
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15:37Episode 11
Poka Yoke (AUDIO TERM)
Episode 11
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05:45Episode 12
Dirty, Dumb, or Dangerous (Audio Term)
Episode 12
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06:25Episode 13
Noise [Sound] (AUDIO TERM)
Episode 13
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06:35Episode 14
Kitting (AUDIO TERM)
Episode 14