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Events
- ACHIEVING ZERO EQUIPMENT FAILURE – September 11, 2025 – Live 4-hour Webinar
- BUILD EXCELLENCE IN ADMINISTRATIONS AND SERVICES – July 10-13, 2025
- OPTIMIZING AND ELEVATING THE R&D FUNCTION – Fall 2025
- LEADING LEAN – BECOMING A LEAN COMPANY, NOT JUST A COMPANY DOING LEAN THINGS
- LEAN IN LABORATORIES – REINVENTING EFFICIENCY IN QUALITY CONTROL PROCESSES AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – Fall 2025
- SERVICE AND ADMIN IMPROVEMENT – Winter 2024
- A ZERO FAILURE STRATEGY/BEYOND THE TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE PILLARS
On site Training
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- Lean in R&D
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- Lean Leader Certification
- Lean in laboratories
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- Value Stream Mapping
- Value Stream Analysis
- Developing a Problem Solving Culture
- Voice of the customer
- Programming and scheduling service flows
- Lean Transformation
- Managing flows in a service environment
- Lean and corporate strategy
- Lean leadership and constructing a lean management system
- Performance management and key performance indicators
- Introduction to Six Sigma
- Introduction to lean principles and waste
- Interpersonal Skills
- Hoshin-Kanri – Policy Deployment
Articles
Talks of motion™
- A Proven Zero Equipment Failure Strategy with TPM.
- A perfect Customer journey
- Leading indicators
- TPM – Total Productive Maintenance : Making Assets Work to Add Value…
- Keeping Entreprise in motion™
- Lean Management: Working better for customers everywhere in the organization Productivity Innovation
- Catherine Converset
- Feedback from the 2019 Lean Systems Summit – Portland 2019
- Productivity Inc. to present at the Lean Systems Summit August 8-9 in Portland, Maine
- Speaker at IOWA Lean Summit 2018
- Conférence AME (American Manufacturing Excellence) – Octobre 2018 – San Diego, Californie
- Feedback on the COE Summit 2016 Ohio State University – Columbus
- Feedback on the Lean Systems Summit 2016
Events Training
Lean Articles
- Setting the Stage for Success
- The Future of R&D
- Renewal as Resurrection – an Eye to the Future
- Leaders, Managers,
- The Need for a Comprehensive Operational Excellence System in Quality Control Labs
- Moving Forward!
- Lean Management et Lean Manufacturing
- The Balance Growth, Margin and Leadership.
- Congratulations to Johnson Controls Power Solutions!
- Lean needs leaders
- Multinational Electronics Manufacturers testimonial
- TexOps testimonial
- Suncor Energy Inc. testimonial
- Adidas AG testimonial
- State of mind and behavior of employees
- 10 Steps to Foster Innovation and Drive Growth
- Managing Complexity at a Major Insurance Broker
- Culture Change
- Lean Marketing
- 5 Principles to Align Your Organization into Excellence
- Create Lean Mindsets & Behaviors
- Lean across all Service Sectors
- Lean in Human Resources
- Blower Failure Case Study – Root Cause Machine Failure Analysis
- Everything in Pork Pie Order
- If History Can Teach Us Anything… It’s How to Lead
- What’s Missing From Your Lean Initiative?
- Getting used to see waste in service activities.
- L’équilibre Croissance, Marge et Leadership…
- The Lean Manager Certification Program for Services – 2017 Edition – Columbus, OH
- Improving the Supply Storage and Replenishment System
- “Flowing” Case Carts to the Operating Room
- Claims Reimbursement Improvement Using Waste Reduction and Standard Work
- Emergency Department (ED) Diverts Reduced Using Data Mining and Standard Work
- Lab Capacity and Clinic Flow Improvement
- Therapeutic IV Drug Decision Support
- One week at The Ohio State University campus…
- The Use and Abuse of OEE
- A Maintenance Miracle
- Quantum Leap Yield Improvement
- Tag That Attitude!
- OEE – Learn How to Use It Right
- Engaging your Workforce
- Developing TPM
- Lean Lessons At the Movies
- The Improvement Strategy “Trinity”
- Invest for Success
- Can you solve the same problem twice?
- Beyond the Improvement Strategy
- 6 Actions to Help Mid-Level Managers Transition into Lean Leaders
- The Big Miss·take
- Solving the “Sustainment Problem”
- TPM before Lean
- The Light Blue Shirt – A Lesson in Communication
- Do You Have A Healthy Business Strategy?
- Convincing the Unconvinced
- Policies vs. Improvement Initiatives
- 7 Key Decisions for TPM Implementers
- Fixes that Fail – 5 Why or Six Sigma?
- The Cost Benefit of SMED
- Green TPM
- Going Green With Your Gemba Walk
- Introducing TPM In A Mature Organization
- Five Things to Consider on a Gemba Walk
- Departing On Time…
- Making Sense and Saving Cents at Sensus
- Assessing your TPM Progress
- Leadership – the Hidden Opportunity
- Asset Depreciation
- Embrace the Enemy?
- Sitting Around Dying Efficiently
- The Sorry State of Customer Service
White Papers
Innovation Newsletters
- Innovating the Ordinary
- Learning from Leading “Disruptors”
- Textile Innovation
- The Sustainability <=> Innovation Connection
- Lessons from Hackathons
- Profiles in Growth, 2014
- Drawing on Data for Innovation
- The Whole Package
- Creating “Strategic Surprise”
- Service Innovation-“My Job Is to Build a Culture of Innovation”
- How to Kill Growth and Innovation – Cautionary Tales
- Six Factors for Sustained Growth
- Innovation Pressure Remains High
- Lessons from a Top Innovation Company
- Assessing Your Innovation Capabilities
- Taking Stock of Your “Corporate Garage”
- How Are You Reinvesting for Growth?
- “Intrapraneuring”-It Takes a System
- The Innovation Balancing Act
- What Is a Business Model – And What Is Yours?
- Improvement VS Innovation
- Have You Defined Innovation ?
OE Newsletters
- Management’s 5 Obligations to Teams
- Joel Barker: Overcoming Resistance to Innovation
- Cell Makes Quote Process Flow
- Company Finds That Teamwork Serves Customers, Stimulates Employee Creativity
- Teams Motivate Employees To Improve Service, Cut Cost
- Transforming Maintenance Role Helps Amtex Take Lean Manufacturing To A Higher Level
- Herman Miller Product Teams Function As Small Businesses
- Team Member Testimony Reveals the ‘Power’ in Empowerment
- DataCard Standardizes Development Process and Puts Structure in Place to Sustain the Change
- Titleist Foot-Joy Worldwide Drives Toward Visual Workplace
- MEMC Gets Quick, Cost-Effective Maintenance Improvements with CEDAC
- ‘Semi-Stealth’ Strategy Turns Top Executives into Believers
- Good Team Chartering Means Better Results
- At Last – A CEO Who Walks the Quality Talk
- Making Empowerment Real: Four Steps Managers Must Take
- Managers Have 3 Obligations in a Lean System
- Finding Capacity – A snapshot of a client engagement
- TPM Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities
- Make it Visible…
- Writing a good problem statement
- 6 steps to achieving TPM through line-centric accountability
- Lean Rollout—Pull, Readiness, and Getting Started
- Gore’s ELIXIR® Strings: Gains Support Customer Service/Sales
- Lean re-launch at texops: holistic, systematic—Approach yields dramatic performance gains
- Lean Service Is Innovative Service Is Lean Service Is…
- Asset Management Update—ISO 55000 and Its Links with Operational Excellence
- Getting “Engaged”
- TPM—Fad or Fundamental?
- Servant Leadership in a Lean Organization
- Insights from Champions of TPM
- Loyal Customers—Lean Service
- Idea Spread, Culture Change, and the Coaching Kata
- Lean Pharmaceuticals, Lean Labs—Lessons Learned
- The Offshoring, Reshoring, Right-shoring Shuffle…
- Visual Thinking—Visible Action
- Reducing Waste (Waste to Landfill, That Is)
- The “Power of Negative Thinking” Meets the “Sustainment Problem”
- The Transparent Factory—A Case for Attracting a New Generation of Skilled Workers
- Leadership Lessons from Turnarounds
- Making Operational Excellence a Way of Life
Publications
- Toyota Production System
- Workplace Management
- TPM Development Program
- Introduction to TPM
- Non-Stock Production
- Zero Quality Control
- A Study of the Toyota Production System
- A Revolution in Manufacturing
- TPM in Process Industries
- CEDAC
- Lean Hospitals
- Getting to Standard Work in Health Care
- Kaizen Workshops for Lean Healthcare
- The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen
- Achieving Patient (aka Customer) Experience Excellence
- Mapping Clinical Value Streams
- Lean Leadership for Healthcare
- Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation The Virginia Mason Experience
Case Studies