The Lean Thinker
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Let me profile a company – I have an actual company in mind, but this one is only a concrete example. For example, are there metrics or line management expectations that run counter to moving continuously toward 1:1 production at takt? If improvement only happens as an event, then it is, by definition, not “continuous.”
MTS Logistics
MARCH 10, 2025
The port industry in Portugal definitely benefitted from, at first, no trade between the two powers, and then they kept benefiting when heavy tariffs resumed between Britain and France. For example, when colored TVs first hit the market, the prices for Australians were virtually unaffordable.
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Logistics Bureau
DECEMBER 22, 2024
A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important?
The Logistics of Logistics
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
In the Cloud model, upfront costs primarily consist of: WMS implementation (requirements definition, system configuration, system and user acceptance testing, integration to existing corporate and/or material handling systems, go-live support, etc.). Other vendors include some or even all of these as part of their core WMS capabilities.
The Lean Thinker
MARCH 23, 2023
During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). Are you comfortable with this definition of “good supervision?” But to me , this is the very definition of compliance.
The Lean Thinker
DECEMBER 9, 2022
The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Let’s start with a definition: any device that can perceive its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal is engaged in some form of artificial intelligence (AI). It is also worth pointing out, that based on this definition, not all forms of machine learning are particularly complicated.
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