The Waste of waiting Welcome back everyone. By now you have a general understanding of waste and have probably began to see and identify many examples of the eight types of muda. In order for us to understand each form of waste at a more advanced level, we are going to look in detail at each of the letters in Mr. Tim woods name. In this lecture we will look at the waste of waiting. By the end of this lecture you will know what it means to wait and…

The Waste of Transportation Welcome back everyone. By now you have a general understanding of waste and have probably began to see and identify many examples of the eight types of muda. Now it’s time for us to look at each of the letters in Mr. Tim woods name with a magnifying glass. In this lecture, we will look at the details of the waste of transportation. By the end of this lecture, you will know what the waste of transportation is, what some of the more common causes of…

Waste Overview Hi there. My name is Cameron Hansen. I’m here with Lean Strategies International, LLC to give you this updated overview of the eight forms of waste. In this lecture you will learn what valueadded and nonvalue added work is. After we understand these two types of work, we will discuss what waste is and finally we will touch on each of the eight forms of waste that can be found in any organization. Let’s get started by first discussing the three types of work that take place in…

Six Sigma Opportunities Depending on what sort of business you work in or have experience with, or even the industry that you’re a part of, the nature of quality will be different from one industry to the other industry. The general assumption across all businesses is that quality products are meeting the needs and the expectations of the customer. In effect, quality is not about what I produce or even if I produce it accurately, but rather that the customer sees it as being produced to their needs accurately. The…

DMAIC Welcome to this overview of the Domaic methodology. We’re glad you could make it. In both Lean and Six Sigma, many different methodologies are utilized to help us structure our thoughts and drive repeatable improvement results. While the methodology will not give us answers or solve problems for us, methodology LGs provide us with a system in order to perform various methods and make educated decisions, thereby helping to ensure that we are on the right path. The Domic method is a problem solving approach used in both Lean…

Kaizen Kaizen means to change for the better. In Japanese, the most popular English equivalent is continuous improvement. The philosophy or culture of kaizen is one of continuous, incremental and sometimes instant improvements. It is sometimes confused for a project. But make no mistake, kaizen is not just a project but rather something that we internalize. It is a culture in itself. At times we may have activities such as the Kaizen Blitz which is concentrative, highly intensive activity designed to make rapid improvements quickly and efficiently. We sometimes mistake…

Key Principles in Six Sigma (Define) If you’re like anybody else in the world, you probably do something and then later ask, well, how did that turn out? Or why did that happen? Because of this common curiosity towards results, determinism becomes one of the key elements and principles of a Six Sigma strategy. The principle of determinism is a core belief that is at the heart of a Six Sigma strategy. Determinism is the principle that you can create any desired outcome by configuring and controlling the inputs in…

Lean control and Defect prevention Welcome back to the first session on Control Phase. At Control Phase, you will study about how to sustain the improvement effort made on your process. It includes topics like Lean Control where you will study about the different types of lean tools to stabilize your process performance. At Defect Control you will study about the Boca Egg technique for your defect prevention and at Statistical Process Control you will study about the control chart analysis and identify whether your process is in control or…

Introduction to Linux In this section we’ll discuss Linux history. We’ll discuss linus plus. Good. We’ll discuss the Linux GUI desktops as well as a bass shell. We’ll also discuss file formats. We’ll give you a couple demos on account management. We’ll discuss cartwes and zips. We’ll talk about some vulnerabilities like the shellshock and Poodle as well as our most popular distros like security distros such as Kali Linux. Linux History – Linus + Minux = Linux3 So starting off our section on Linux, let’s just talk a little…

DNS Databases Okay, so the next thing we want to talk about is the DNS server itself and more specifically the record types that it holds because they do hold a bit of information. I briefly went through some of them, but we’re going to go ahead and elaborate on them just a little bit more. Now as you can see here, the host record or the A record, which is what you’ll typically see in a DMs, a DNS dump is it maps a domain name to an IP…