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TXM Lean Minute Video – Kanban # 1 – Accumulation Kanban

Our first “Lean Minute” videos focus on one of the most recognizable Lean techniques – Kanban. Kanban is such a simple and effective way to manage materials, however it is often wrongly perceived as...

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TXM Lean Minute Video – Kanban Tip #2 – Kanban Posts

Our second “Lean Minute” about Kanban focuses on a common problem with every kanban system – making sure that Kanban materials and cards get delivered to the right location. In this short video...

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TXM Lean Minute Video – Lean Plant Layout Design

Getting the plant layout right at the start can save you a lot of time and money in the life of your factory and will mean that you can make more product, more safely at lower cost and in less space....

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TXM Lean Minute Video – Creating Lean Standardised Work for Customised Products

TXM Lean Minute – Creating Standardised Work for Custom Products Lean standardised work is one of the foundation tools of Lean Thinking. However for custom products it can be difficult to apply. This...

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TXM Lean Minute Video – Why Your Business Needs Lean Visual Controls

TXM Lean Minute – How Visual Controls can Simplify Your Business Visual controls are simple visual cues or signals that tell us the current situation and enable us to make decisions based on facts....

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TXM Lean Minute Video – How to Level Lean Production to Takt Time

TXM Lean Minute – How to Level Production to Takt Time When you make a simple mass produced product, leveling lean production is relatively easy. However for customised products it can be challenging...

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TXM Lean Minute Video – The “I to U” of Lean Plant Layout

Sykes 02 SHARE VIA EMAIL SHARE ON LINKEDIN There are lots of different ways you can layout your plant. Lean Plant Layouts can include I, L, O, S and U shapes. In this TXM Lean Minute, Anthony Clyne...

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TXM Lean Minute Video – Traffic Light Graphics for Visual Control

TXM Lean Minute -Traffic Light Graphics for Visual Control Traffic lights are universally understood – red means stop, green means go and orange means watch out! This video shows how this can be used...

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TXM Lean Minute Video – Creating a Culture of Daily Problem Solving

Creating a culture where your teams use simple practical problem solving techniques every day can drive dramatic improvement in your business. However how do you create a sustainable culture of daily...

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TXM Lean Minute – Autonomous Maintenance

Care for your machine like you care for your car. In this Lean Minute, TXM China Consulting Director, Justin Tao, explains how Autonomous Maintenance means that operators do simple every day cleaning,...

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TXM Lean Video – The Five Steps to Achieving Level Production

Achieving level production is a key objective of a Lean production system. Level production occurs when each process step works in unison at a constant rate of production equal to rate of customer...

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TXM Lean Video – Lean Problem Solving – Breaking Down the Problem for Daily...

Daily problem solving is at the heart of continuous improvement. We often find companies struggling by making problem solving harder than it needs to be.  In this Lean Minute video Michelle Brown...

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TXM Lean Minute – Display your Value Stream Maps in the Workplace

Displaying your current state value stream map near to the place where the work is done can unearth ideas and opportunities. Anthony Clyne explains in this TXM Lean Minute video how displaying your...

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TXM Lean Minute – Using Short Interval Control for Planning

Short interval control production boards are a key tool to stabilizing and sustaining our lean processes within a machine or workstation area.  This Lean minute explains how Short Interval Control...

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TXM Lean Minute – Live and Visual Minute Taking

  SHARE VIA EMAIL SHARE ON LINKEDIN Maximise the productivity of your meetings with live and visual minute taking. TXM Consulting Director Anthony Clyne explains how you can save time, have shorter...

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TXM Lean Minute – How to Design your Lean Warehouse for Efficient Picking

SHARE VIA EMAIL SHARE ON LINKEDIN A key cause of waste in a warehouse is excessive transportation and motion. Carefully designing your warehouse to minimise unnecessary motion and transport and...

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The Importance of the Senior Leadership Workshop

This seems to be the season for Senior Leadership workshops, with the TXM team having conducted several over the last few weeks. Preparing a senior leadership workshop has given us time to reflect on...

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TXM Lean Minutes – Managing Problem Solving Concern Strips in your Daily...

TXM Concern strips are a really effective way to capture and permanently solve  every day problems in your business. This video provides practical tips on how to use concern strips in your meetings....

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TXM Lean Minute Video – The Most Effective Warehouse Management Technology

SHARE VIA EMAIL SHARE ON LINKEDIN Sign Up For Tim McLean’s “On Time In Full Lean Supply Chain Workshop  and Simulation AME Boston Conference – 9 October 2017 What is the most effective warehouse...

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TXM Lean Minute – Autonomous Maintenance

Care for your machine like you care for your car. In this Lean Minute, TXM China Consulting Director, Justin Tao, explains how Autonomous Maintenance means that operators do simple every day cleaning,...

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