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Without Work Standards There Won’t be Standardized Work
About this article: This article is written by Oscar Roche and TWI Institute. Join Oscar for a free webinar titled, “Without Work Standards There Won’t

Rescuing Victims of Human Trafficking Through Lean Thinking.
When we heard this inspirational story of lean and TWI in the rescue of victims of human trafficking, we had to share it. This story

Thanks for Giving!
February 17-18, 2020 Austin, TX February 20-21, 2020 Austin, TX What is Lean Accounting? What is Lean HR? What is Lean Product Development? What is

Top 15 Lean Conferences of 2020
There is no shortage of lean-related events in 2020, from small regional conferences, to workshops, to large international events that draw the world’s top

5 Levels of Toyota’s Work Standardization: Learning from the Source.
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: The following guest post comes from Oscar Roche of the TWI Institute. Lean Frontiers is pleased to welcome Oscar as presenter

Conducting workplace experiments
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: The following guest post comes from Oscar Roche of the TWI Institute. Lean Frontiers is pleased to welcome Oscar as presenter

$600 million in new sales, and thousands in saved lives – that is the value of my learnings at LPPDE
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: The following was an email sent by our friends at the Lean Product & Process Development Exchange. It’s a testament to

How is your Management System Working?
ABOUT THIS ARTICLE: This article was written by Skip Steward, Vice President and Chief Improvement Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care headquartered in Memphis, TN.

LPPDE History: Part 1 The Early Years
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: From it’s beginning, Lean Frontiers, Inc. has supported the vision and mission of LPPDE as a non-profit organization. Leading up to

Common Sense Lean: You Can Only Sell What You Have!
Written by Norbert Majerus, LPPDE Board Member If I was selling goods on line that I do not have, I might go to jail. Or

What Does TWI Mastery Look Like?
Written by Oscar Roche, TWI Institute The Oxford Dictionary defines mastery as comprehensive knowledge or skill in a particular subject or activity. ‘Comprehensive’ means? The

Operational Excellence for the Cost Accountant
By Gary Kapanowski In the classic movie “The Wizard of Oz,” when Dorothy wakes up after getting caught in a twister, she says to her