http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Aza+Badurdeen Business Management Aza Badurdeen Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=60216&ca=Business+Management Work in progress is treated as the mirror of waste in any system. Lean manufacturing always talks about having a work in progress free manufacturing facility. This is because a WIP free manufacturing facility has no imperfections in the process of manufacturing. Every imperfection in the system crea... Business Management Aza Badurdeen Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=39588&ca=Business+Management Have you ever thought “quality products are expensive”? You might be prepared to pay some extra money for a high quality product. I believe you have taken the correct move. It is always better to buy a better quality product or service than a low quality one. But I have a small problem regarding you... Business Management Aza Badurdeen Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=39133&ca=Business+Management Lean manufacturing offers many mental challenges for all levels in an organization. First of all believing there are wastes in the system is a challenge. People have a safe territory. They do not want to leave it. People are very comfortable in this territory, whether it is truly good or assumed to... Business Management Aza Badurdeen Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=34910&ca=Business+Management When we think about lean manufacturing we think about work cells, kanban cards, TQM and so on. But many people do a basic mistake. That is the mistake of not understanding the concepts on which lean manufacturing built on. Many people who copied lean manufacturing failed because they did not underst... Business Management Aza Badurdeen Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=35421&ca=Business+Management Certainly lean manufacturing is a very good system. It is very effective and efficient. Lean manufacturing concepts outscores almost all the conventional manufacturing concepts by large margins. Lean manufacturing is the system for future. Concept of waste elimination will be much more important in... Business Management Aza Badurdeen Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36009&ca=Business+Management Many pioneers of lean manufacturing or JIT traveled to USA to study the Henry Ford’s line assembly system. They studied the manufacturing system which made Henry Ford one of the richest of the planet. They studied the pluses and minuses of the system. But, many Japanese manufacturers were more inter...