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AllAboutLean.com Website Relaunch

Christoph Roser November 11, 2025

If you are a regular visitor on my site, you may have noticed that it looks a bit different. Yes, we did a major restructuring of the website and a website relaunch. Most importantly, the blog with over 640 blog posts is still there, and also right there on the front page. But we did significantly expand the additional offerings around the blog.

As mentioned in the last birthday post, the growing demand for consulting and training support inspired Jochen and me to start a lean consulting and training company. We now offer these services directly through our blog. Hence, this blog post is about the changes in the website and the new offers in training, consulting, coaching, and more.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 3: Additional Quality Control Tools

Christoph Roser November 4, 2025

In my last two posts, I talked a lot about the free Analysis Platform application, used by Denso and others to dig deeper into big data to understand what exaltiert is happening on your shop floor. I showed you the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7). But beyond these seven tools, there are a few more included in the application, which I also would like to show you briefly here.

And, on top of that, I will also briefly show you Seven New Quality Control Tools that are not really part of the application, but aim to dig deeper into problems that are hard to quantify, and many of these tools are more based on relations than on data.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 2: The Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools

Christoph Roser October 28, 2025

In my last post, I started to talk about the free Analysis Platform application used by Denso and others (especially in Japan) to tackle big data. In this post I will go into much more detail on what Denso calls the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7). These data analysis tools go way beyond the usual things you can do in Excel, and are designed to tackle big data analysis for industry 4.0. Beyond that, this application also includes more tools, which I will also show briefly in my next post.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 1: The Analysis Platform Application

Christoph Roser October 21, 2025

A lot of problem solving is about understanding the current situation. Ideally this includes data. There are a couple of ways to analyze data. Denso uses seven traditional ways of analyzing data, which you are all familiar with. However, they expanded these tools with the goal to analyze big data. They call it the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7) …and of course I will share this with you. Even better, there is a freely available tool “Analysis Platform” that does these analyses for you (albeit it is not that easy to use).

What the Heck Is Kotozukuri?

Christoph Roser October 14, 2025

In my last post I talked about hitozukuri for human resources development, and in a much earlier post about monozukuri for making things. But, there is more: Kotozukuri stands for… a lot of different things, most often for the joy and passion to make products. It is not so well known, is often interpreted differently, and may be just a buzzword, but I would like to show you this anyway.

What Is Hitozukuri?

Christoph Roser October 7, 2025

This week we will have a look at another Japanese word that is often used in lean: hitozukuri. You may already know the similar word, monozukuri, to make things. Hitozukuri applies this to people. No worries, I won’t ask you to give birth, but rather tell you how to grow your people. Read on…

How to Turn Your Car for Assembly—Part 2

Christoph Roser September 30, 2025

In my last post I started looking in more detail on how to turn a car on an automotive assembly line. This is a deep dive in a specialized topic, but I hope it can inspire you in similar issues with your own assembly line. The big question is how to reduce the overall walking distance for all your operators. But, as we will see in this post, it is also a question for tool and material access. Read on!

How to Turn Your Car for Assembly—Part 1

Christoph Roser September 23, 2025

In this small blog post series I will do a deep dive on one aspect of automotive assembly—namely, how to position the car for assembly. While not all of you assemble cars for a living, understanding the approach on walking distances may be helpful to optimize other production systems. Read on …

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