Author Archive: Richard Schonberger
Richard Schonberger, Ph.D., is president of Schonberger & Associates of Seattle, providing seminars and advisory services to industrial and service organizations worldwide. He is author of over 170 articles and papers, a 12-volume video set, several books, including: Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement: A Deeper Look . . . with Telling Evidence from the Leanness Studies, Let's Fix It! Overcoming the Crisis in Manufacturing: How the World's Leading Manufacturers Were Seduced by Prosperity and Lost Their Way, World Class Manufacturing — The Next Decade: Building Power, Strength, and Value, Building a Chain of Customers: Linking Business Functions to Create the World Class Company, World Class Manufacturing: The Lessons of Simplicity Applied, Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity. Among his current activities, Dr. Schonberger is director of The Leanness Studies, an on-going tracking of inventory turnover data for more than 1,400 companies in 33 countries, and an international benchmarking research project called World Class by Principles (WCP), with assisting research partners in leading nations globally.
The Skinny on Lean Management
Reprinted with permission. Lean management doesn’t resonate in marketing and sales. Nor does it among boards, senior executives and investors. Reasons relate to where lean tends to do most of its work – in operations – and its usual presentation as an attack on waste. Obscured are its much greater potential in the distribution pipelines [...]
Make Work Cells Work for You
Reprinted with permission, Quality Progress Cellular layout and organization create compact, highly focused work environments that release a host of benefits, quality being among the foremost. Briefly, a work cell is a grouping of manual or machine processes that can produce a complete item or family of items. Cellular work stations are close enough together [...]
