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What is Standard Work
What is Standard Work? And why wouldn’t an automatic work? Hi, I’m Nate Barber. Welcome to the 10th and final video in our 10-part series...

Nate Barber
Jan 9, 20236 min read
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What is 5S?
What is 5S? Isn’t that an old iPhone model? And why do we need to paint so many lines on our floors, anyway? Hi, I’m Nate Barber. Welcome...

Nate Barber
Jan 2, 20236 min read
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Why Pursue Perfection
Why pursue perfection? And how do we even know what perfection looks like? Hi, I’m Nate Barber. Welcome to the 8th video in our 10-part...

Nate Barber
Nov 27, 20226 min read
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What is Pull (and Kanban)?
What is pull? And what is a can ban? Or is it kahn-bahn? Or does it matter what we call it? Hi, I’m Nate Barber. Welcome to the 7th video...

Nate Barber
Nov 20, 20225 min read
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What is Flow (and Takt)?
What is flow? How do we takt-fully create it? Hi, I’m Nate Barber. Welcome to the 6th video in our 10-part series celebrating Opgrade’s...

Nate Barber
Nov 13, 20226 min read
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What is Value Stream Mapping?
Hi, I’m Nate Barber. Welcome to the 5th video in our 10-part series celebrating Opgrade’s 10th anniversary. Thanks for watching, and...

Nate Barber
Nov 6, 20225 min read
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What is Value?
Hi, I’m Nate Barber. Welcome to the 4th video in our 10-part series celebrating Opgrade’s 10th anniversary. Thanks for watching, and...

Nate Barber
Oct 30, 20226 min read
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What is Kaizen?
Welcome back. We've been celebrating Opgrade's 10th Anniversary with a new video series. In the first video, I shared a little bit about...

Nate Barber
Oct 23, 20227 min read
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What is Lean?
What is Lean? Hello everyone, thank you for watching this second video in a series of informative videos we’re putting out celebrating...

Nate Barber
Oct 16, 20226 min read
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The Opgrade Story
Hello everyone, thanks for watching this video, and thanks for celebrating with us. Today, October 9th is Opgrade's 10th Anniversary....

Nate Barber
Oct 9, 20224 min read
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Release Schedule for 10th Anniversary Videos
We will be releasing short celebratory videos with productivity-helping content every week for the rest of the year. 10 videos to...

Nate Barber
Oct 9, 20221 min read
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3P
3P is the abbreviation for the Production Preparation Process. Typically 3P is facilitated as a 3-5 day event, depending on the scope of...

Nate Barber
Oct 25, 20181 min read
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Glossary of Lean Terminology
http://www.opgrade.com/leanglossary

Nate Barber
Oct 22, 20181 min read
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Project Plan with RACI & Gantt Chart
We've developed a Microsoft Excel tool to help you manage your projects with RACI and Gantt Charts. Feel free to download, share and use...

Nate Barber
Sep 6, 20171 min read
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CFD Study
Purpose When engineers need to design or improve fluid flow systems, it is often impossible or not cost-effective to see inside these...

Nate Barber
Sep 6, 20164 min read
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Steam Production
Availability Study Improves Revenue and Optimizes Equipment Configuration Methodology Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM)...

Nate Barber
Sep 6, 20164 min read
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Hydrogen Supply
Improved Hydrogen Supply Increases Annual Revenues by $30+ million Methodology Opgrade Performance Study of an existing petrochemical...

Nate Barber
Sep 6, 20164 min read
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Optimize Tank Sizing
Installing More Storage than Necessary is Simply a Waste of Capital Methodology Opgrade Performance study of an existing plant 50 Words...

Nate Barber
Sep 6, 20164 min read
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Oil Sands Plant Infrastructure
Opgrade Study Establishes Business Case for $700 mil Infrastructure Investment Methodology Opgrade Plant Performance Study 50 Words or...
marketingopgrade
Sep 6, 20164 min read
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Implementation Design
As you know, probably having seen an initiative or two wither on the vine, the steps necessary to implement change are as important as...
marketingopgrade
Jul 4, 20161 min read
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