Do you think Designing for Manufacturing was a contemporary set of methods? If so, think again. Our manufacturing forefathers, like Alexander Hamilton Church, understood and promoted the importance of designing products and processes for the most effective manufacturing and business over 100 years ago. Why has it taken us so long to have this part of our business today – most organizations still struggle with this. jim March 23, 2023 Read more
The history of flow production is long and precedes Toyota and its great work in this area. Ford’s Highland Park Plant is a source and also the writings of Alexander Hamilton Church in 1910! Some review of AH Church sounds more like contemporary descriptions, not something from over 100 years ago. jim February 2, 2023 Read more
Some history on flow production from the writing of Alexander Hamilton Church – over 100 years ago. The implementation of flow production was realized and articulated early in the 20th century. History worth studying – and pre-Toyota’s flow production. jim December 27, 2022 Read more
Famous industrial and management Historian, Alfred Chandler Jr., and author of The Visible Hand (https://lnkd.in/gc5Qkiyd), noted who developed financial methods – it happens to be the some people who pioneered many of the methods we call “lean” today, and, particularly, early innovations of lean accounting. And they used “scientific thinking” and practices to develop these methods – where are our scientific thinking pioneers today? jim November 2, 2022 Read more
Lean Accounting History – Value Stream and Scientific Method Costing from over 100 years ago! jim September 28, 2022 Read more
Some more thoughts on lean accounting – flow facilitates value stream costing jim August 31, 2022 Read more
Jim Shorts jim May 25, 2022 Jim Shorts are brief stories on lean history, lean trivia, and other related information and stories. Read more
