Successes

Forging with dissent

Do you remember the scene in Animal House when Stork redirects the band during the parade? Under the direction of Marion Wormer, he takes...

Avoid making your spares a gift card

I want you to imagine a collection of spare parts for a manufacturing facility. In this facility, spare parts have been traditionally...

One lock, one key. Always.

You may have interpreted through organization surveys or transformational change exercises on the subject of safety, that the...

One lonely cinnamon roll doesn't mean it is old

When conducting investigations, we often allow our assumptions to get in the way of our investigation. We see something that we perceive...

A crispy approach to dehydration

Manufacturing and summertime mean one thing, it’s hot. Most people might complain about how hot it is after mowing a quarter-acre yard in...

How is your backlog?

If you are managing an organization, I will assume that you have experienced the overwhelming sensation of uncovering a backlog that is...

Cheers... to the last outage.

WIthin all forms of manufacturing, outages exist. They are either planned or unplanned and they could exist at some periodic interval....

Quality Initiatives in Manufacturing: How Do We Handle Incoming Quality Losses Impacting OEE

Quality Initiatives in Manufacturing: How Do We Handle Incoming Quality Losses Impacting OEE As organizations embark on Overall Equipment...

Streamline Your Decision Making for Business Management

How I Streamlined My Decision-Making for Business Management My wife agonizes over decisions big or small. Once she decides, she’s full...

How I figured out that reflecting on failures made for good business.

Seth Godin calls it “shipping.” Having the courage to reflect, write, and ship. It is taking time to build the habit to do good things...