Cristal Mcmeans

How Kanban Can Help Your Business

If you’re running a business, you know how important it is to avoid wasting resources. Wasted resources are profit drains that can negatively affect a company if left unresolved. While this is quite easy to say, it’s not as easy to do. However, it is not ... Read >

Kaizen Elements for Company Productivity and Performance

Kaizen is a business practice that was originally developed in Japan and is now used widely among organizations around the globe. Its central concept is to continuously change the entire company for the better by implementing policies that ensure the cont... Read >

Time Management Through SMED Games

Manufacturing companies understand the importance of time management, especially when it comes to their production process. Since they are dealing with clients that require them a specific deadline for their orders, manufacturing companies strive to maint... Read >

Basic Overview of the One Piece Flow Simulation

Any manufacturing company’s objective is to produce quality products by having a smooth production flow, with minimal to zero room for errors. However, not all companies can achieve this perfect production process. Many manufacturing organizations still e... Read >

Fighting Delays through Value Stream Mapping

Time is a very important aspect in the area of production. In fact, efficient production is all about maintaining product quality and quantity while reducing production times. While production is measured by the ratio between product output and the input ... Read >

The Principles of Total Production Maintenance (TPM)

Manufacturing is one of the leading industries in the world today. Without business corporations engaged in manufacturing, there would be no equipment or products people can use to make modern life easier and more convenient. Manufacturing businesses serv... Read >

SMED: A Quick Changeover Principle

Over the years, technology has done its best to make every human activity easy and fast. Transportation is more convenient through vehicles, elevators and escalators are now more commonly used instead of stairs, and machines are beginning to fill the need... Read >

Learning the Poka-Yoke Principle

The human mind develops over time, storing all information that the senses can perceive. However, the brain not only gathers and stores information, but also interprets this for accurate decision-making. A well-developed ability to analyze can determine t... Read >

Poka-Yoke: An Effective Business Development Technique

Poka-yoke is a business term that refers to mechanisms used for minimizing the occurrences of mistakes or defects.It is a Japanese term that specifically means ‘fail-safe’ or ‘mistake-proof’; it is concerned not with eliminating mistakes directly but in e... Read >

Why Use a One-Piece Flow Simulation?

Ever heard of the term ‘lean manufacturing’ and how its one-piece flow approach can make a positive change in your business? The use of lean manufacturing strategies has been prevalent in the business industry, as these strategies have proven to be effect... Read >

Advantages of One-Piece Flow Lean Manufacturing Strategy

You’ve probably heard about lean manufacturing and how difficult it can be to apply the strategy to any business. However, to improve the efficiency and output quality of your business’ production processes, it might be in your best interest to learn the ... Read >

Implementing Lean Manufacturing

Lean manufacturing has been one of the best business solutions recognized by many entrepreneurs in the country. Once implemented properly, the strategy works successfully for many businesses and companies. Implementing lean manufacturing is sometimes easi... Read >

How Lean Manufacturing Can Help Your Business

Because the current economy’s making it hard businesses to succeed, finding the key in utilizing production has become a priority for many business owners. Fortunately, entrepreneurs can depend on one efficient business production strategy. This solution ... Read >

What is Lean Manufacturing?

In current times, entrepreneurs are striving hard to fulfill the requirements of their business production. Through the advancements of technology today, production or manufacturing has become one of the most important aspects of running a business. That ... Read >

Using Kanban Simulations to Improve Reactions to Actual Issues

The Kanban system has been around for a long time. And although the system was initially developed for use in software development projects, the system is now more commonly used as a solution for the demand-and-supply analysis needs of manufacturing compa... Read >