Sounds counter-productive, but if you have idle operator time they could very well be tapping holes with a tapping arm and reduce the overall cycle time for the 2nd op. Another example could involve moving tool setting operations off the machine and onto an offline Tool Presetter. There are...
Do try to apply the “as you need” as close and as much as possible. When I had to insulated my old concrete basement floor, I made sure that all 50 sheets of XPS and 100 sheets of 1/2 OSB went directly from my truck to their final destination. I saved so much w...
When you’re ready to eat it, just thaw on the counter! How can I make this banana chocolate zucchini bread? Replace the applesauce in this recipe with one medium mashed banana. Or try this Marbled Chocolate Zucchini Banana Bread. Can I make this recipe as chocolate zucchini muffins? Yes!
None of this is an advanced topic. These are the basics.Once a good context is established in people’s minds, my experience suggests that the Toyota system is no longer counter-intuitive. The tools and techniques that, at first, seem alien now make sense. ——– 1By this I meant to s...
Just thaw on the counter as needed. You can also toast directly from the freezer. Bread can be stored at room temperature in a sealed bag. Note that warmer weather may cause bread to mold more quickly so freezing all or some of the loaf can prolong the life of the bread. What are ...
Cisco Lean Retail SAP ERP Application Deployment Guide Cisco Validated Design July 19, 2008 Introduction The Cisco Lean Retail SAP ERP solution provides best practices and implementation guidance that optimizes application availability, performance, and security while lowering application ownership costs. ...
In retail, the front-line people are cashiers and sales clerks. For many executives, investing power in people who might be low in the organizational hierarchy runs counter to instinct. But, if Lean improvements are left exclusively to managers, the program will lack adequate insight into ...
The organization can then build "baseload" teams that handle the constant numbers, while cross-training a "peak" team to provide supplemental coverage for each region's peak season. Counterintuitively, flexibility depends to a great degree on standardization. By developing "sta...
Software is becoming omnipresent, it is embedded and integral to all industries. Not just technology companies (like Google, Apple) but every sector is being disrupted by software including retail (Amazon), banking (PayPal, cryptocurrencies), transportation (Tesla, Uber), and travel (Airbnb). ...
which has just featured a placeholder page full of ads. According to Compete, Dropbox.com had nearly 60,000 unique visitors last month. It’s impossible to know how many of them eventually made it to the correct domain, but there’s no doubt Dropbox has been losing out on plenty of tr...