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This Chilean agribusiness company achieved great results in a very short time by applying lean to standardize its processes and improve its productivity.
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Understand why Brazil's agricultural sector will increasingly demand “farm managers” – and how the lean way can accelerate the development of essential skills
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Learn how lean thinking can bring better and bigger “harvests” from technology applied to agribusiness – and the risks of not doing so
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Understand how lean logistics has been applied to grain farming and cattle feedlots with excellent results
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An agricultural cooperative in Mato Grosso do Sul proves that lean management practices reduce substantial financial losses.
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Recurring everyday problems on farms can be solved with basic lean maintenance concepts, which can generate a series of gains for the business.
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Lean thinking travels everywhere. See how the experience and insights of an Indiana farmer supported a USAID project to improve outcomes for farmers across Nigeria.
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Since 2018, Lean Institute Brasil (LIB) has been developing projects on soybean, corn and beef cattle farms in Brazil's Center-West region. After “putting on our boots” and getting to know the sector and its needs better, this article seeks to share some of the lessons, impressions and results we have gathered from our first experiences of bringing lean inside the farm gates.
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Success story of an agribusiness company with 75% gains
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Lean Institute Brasil is conducting pioneering lean experiments in agriculture. The authors reflect on the challenges of transforming traditional farming culture and the opportunities that lean resources provide.
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INTERVIEW - Ben Hartman has used lean on his micro-farm in Indiana for six years. He has not only found a way to support his family doing what he loves, but has also figured out how to transform our food system.
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A practice pioneered by Toyota in which the problem, the analysis, the corrective actions and the action plan are written on a single sheet of paper (A3 size), usually with graphs and figures. At Toyota, A3 reports…
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Part three of a seven-part series, “The real secret to success with the A3 process”. Learn how the A3 process goes beyond problem solving and the other facets of the practice you must understand. Read the previous articles: part one - It is as much a social process as a technical problem-solving process and part 2 - PDCA is actually CA-PDCA – and it is the CA that makes the PD work .
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Part two of a seven-part series, “The real secret to success with the A3 process”. Learn how the A3 process goes beyond problem solving and the other facets of the practice you must understand. Read part one, " It is as much a social process as a technical problem-solving process "
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