Lean Math With Mark Hamel

Principal and owner

Mark R. Hamel is a lean Six Sigma implementation consultant and author. He is founder of GembaTales, a blog for providing insight into the application of certain lean concepts, and co-founder of the Lean Math blog—a tool and construct for thinking to integrate lean math theories with application. His book, Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Work for Effective Events (Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2010), received a Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award. Hamel can be reached at mark@kaizenfieldbook.com.

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Productivity Is Not Efficiency But it is one of the critical few measures that reflects the leanness of a process
Mon, 04/29/2013 - 11:16

The seminal book on lean, The Machine That Changed the World (Free Press, reprint 2007), spent many words, tables, and figures on the subject of productivity—as well as, of course, quality. Why? Productivity is one of the critical few…
Calculating Container Capacity This calculation is useful in a lean, two-bin system
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 09:55

Container capacity (Cc) is one of the four basic variables within the generic kanban sizing calculation. However, Cc is often not treated as a variable but more as a constant, predetermined quantity, especially if the lean practitioner seeks…
Reading Lean Math Symbols and notation
Wed, 04/10/2013 - 10:52

Honestly, the last bit of formal and substantive math that I worked with was back in college. Many, many years ago, I received a B.S. in mathematics, but other than the diploma, there is little physical—or intellectual!—evidence that would…