John Bergmann Start Somewhere Metrics How many of us see a defect in manufacturing...and wonder if it is a big problem. Is it a little problem? Chances are, if you don't have it setup in your manufacturing management system, you don't kno...
John Bergmann Why are we measuring this? Good day, I felt it would be useful to regale my audience with a success story. You see a bunch of posts and articles about Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). I might see more than you based on the pe...
John Bergmann Flow Charts and Paradigms This is related to my success story about material storage . I felt like a visualization of how flow chart use resulted in the solution. So this one is brief and I thought you might be interested in t...
John Bergmann Priorities Emergency response is a critical function in modern societies. One would expect such organizations to have deployment processes emphasizing highest priority action first based on event conditions. In ...
John Bergmann Receipt, Process, & Handle Effectively Material handling, at least in the machine centers I have been around, is a bastard child when process improvement people come around. Even the neat and tidy plants still use those ugly, difficult to ...
John Bergmann Find All Your Customers The Success Stories is where I will put various business case studies. Each one is from a business where systems thinking related to Start. Somewhere. was vital in correcting a systems, process, or pe... quality systems start somewhere