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Happy Memorial Day!

5/21/2021

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  Memorial Day is a special holiday that is celebrated every year.  Though many of us may think of those we have lost every single day, for one day an entire country stops to celebrate the lives of fallen soldiers.  These brave soldiers are the essence of improvement. 

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Changing things around

5/3/2021

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  If you travel into any machine shop, office or hospital facility in the world guaranteed you have seen a changeover before.  The changeover occurs in between the last good part or service until the next good part or service.  Some examples would be:
  1. Changing tooling.
  2. Patients service completion.
  3. Changing paper in a printer.
  4. Taking one batch of cookies out of the oven in order to start a new batch.  
This "in-between" time is usually spent performing wasteful activities which often result in long changeovers that inevitably eat up value added time.

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