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Productivity: The debate over one-person (lead carpenter concept) vs. two (or more) person crews

I’ve been thinking about the issue of "productivity" and the debate over one-person (lead carpenter concept) vs. two (or more) person crews. When I open up my estimating application or crack open a copy of R.S. Means’ Repair and Remodeling Cost Data I might see a line item that looks like this: Description Crew Daily [...]

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The Little Lessons we get hit with every day in Lean, TOC, & Six Sigma: Lesson 1; Poke-Yoke (Mistake-proofing a process)

Last night I bought and downloaded Jeff “SKI” Kinsey’s e-book Purple Curve Effect: Throughput on Command (hey it’s just $2.00, what a deal!) and picked up on this little lesson in Lean Thinking that had a touch of Six Sigma to it too. This little lesson came up as I was printing it out. I [...]

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As part of the continuing Theory of Constraints Learning Process and the Lean Journey

As part of the continuing Theory of Constraints Learning Process and the Lean Journey my companies and the companies I consult with are on, I came across another interesting (PDF) article as part of some research I was on. The article that I found dusted off recollections of a topic that appeared in the Journal [...]

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Out of Control

Interesting,… what I was looking for was some infomation on the Last Planner System™ and Hals comments in blog of Wednesday, October 02, 2002 First Thoughts on Control were both along the lines of what I was looking for and it got me thinking progressivly towards some other ends too. Talking about Kevin Kelly and [...]

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