Last Friday, Micron’s leaders, managers, and team leads went through leadership communication training built around the AcuMax Index — an assessment tool geared toward the workplace. Our goal was to take our knowledge from AcuMax, which we use in pre-employment...
In 2000, Micron landed on a discovery that chopped our average setup time by 47% over the course of a year, without even modifying the machines. It wasn’t a new technology or facility upgrade. It was the realization that our goals are only as good as the processes we...
From a Fortune 500 giant to a 35-employee CNC shop, the size difference is hard to overstate. Last month, seven continuous improvement professionals from Archer Daniels Midland toured Micron’s shop floor to find the parallels between the lean discipline ADM...
In Part 1 of this series, we made the case that every visual system trends toward wallpaper, and covered methods to design against the mechanisms of habituation. In Part 2, we laid out a framework for regular review to catch visual systems that are going stale. In...
This is the second post in a three-part series on lean visual systems. Read Part 1 here for the design principles that keep a visual system from losing its edge in the first place. Refreshing a visual system isn’t a one-time fix. It’s part of the ongoing...
This is the first post in a three-part series on lean visual systems — how they lose effectiveness over time, how to keep them sharp, and how we approach visual management on our own shop floor. Visual management is one of the core principles of lean manufacturing for...
Recent Comments