Repost: Hold More Meetings–Just Keep Them Short

https://www.openforum.com/articles/hold-more-meetings-just-keep-them-short/?extlink=sm-openf-sb-promos

This article uses the Lean Manufacturing Principles (remove Waste, Overproduction, and Overprocessing) for making meetings more productive by making them shorter, more focused--and unnecessary to gaining consensus.  A good read.

Using MES in Your Centerlining Efforts

Centerlining, in simple terms, matrixes financial, quality, and product dimensions which can be measured and managed.  The simplest example of Centerlining would be a Continuous Improvement project around quality.  Understanding what affects quality (such as purity of ingredients, length of time processing, specific ways of material handling) makes it easier to establish the “norm” and thus manage the extent that you’ll accept outlier behavior.

So how does #MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and other operations management solutions help with Centerlining?