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“Why?”
By: Megan Johnson, Student Process Improvement Coordinator In order to solve problems and make improvements, we need to encourage ourselves and people who are involved in a process to question it....
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Books Available for Loan
Hello Michigan Tech Staff and Faculty, If you are interested in expanding your continuous improvement knowledge, consider checking out a book from the new “Lean Library” in the process improvement...
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Greetings, I just wanted to pass along a great resource to the campus community: The Michigan Lean Consortium (MLC). I have been in touch with some board members from the MLC for a few months now, they...
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Using a Fishbone Diagram
A recent kaizen event addressed a couple problems in residential dining: unauthorized access into the dining halls, and theft of food and utensils. One tool that we used to drive each day’s...
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Lean Library-Resources Available for Lending
Hello Michigan Tech Staff and Faculty, If you are interested in expanding your continuous improvement knowledge, consider checking out a book from the “Lean Library“, located in the Continuous...
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Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Recently in my Senior Design class the instructor recommended that we all read the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. The book is a business story centered on Kathryn, a new CEO...
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Campus 5S Blitz!
Are you always searching for lost files or tools? Do items from your area seem to just “go missing”? Is it hard to find files on your shared network drive? If you answered yes to any of these...
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Affinity Diagrams
Lately Affinity Diagrams have been used a lot! So I thought what better way to showcase this improvement tool than with a blog post. Affinity Diagrams are tools used by groups to gather and sort ideas...
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Trend Prediction
Hello, this is Elizabeth, one of the student process improvement coordinators at Michigan Tech. This semester one of the classes I am taking within the department of mechanical engineering is...
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Document Management – A 5S Opportunity
I was recently given the opportunity to be a Lean facilitator for a 5S Kaizen event. The goal of the event was to organize the Van Pelt and Opie Library staff document management system. I found this...
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