From Plant magazine - Alberta tackles its productivity gap

Good for Alberta Productivity getting their message out their.

From Plant magazine http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/fabrication/production/alberta-tackles-its-productivity-gap-9925 .

More good stuff at Productivity Alberta including the Productivity Assessment Tool that I worked on with Productivity Alberta and the Winslow Group who are Edmonton's leading Lean consultants.

Those links

http://www.productivityalberta.ca

http://www.productivityalberta.ca/tools/assessment

www.winslowgroup.ca

SMED can be as simple as this

http://lifehacking.nl/kantoor-tips/nooit-meer-je-usb-kabel-achter-het-bureau-verliezen-voor-e1/  

I know this article has been around the blogshere already and with good reason.   This really is a perfect example of Quick Change Overs/SMED being used in a situation that everyone recognizes.  It just shows that improvement ideas do not have to big, clever or expensive.  In fact the best are usually small, simple and cheap.