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...
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Nate Barber
- Jan 2
- 6 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Nov 27, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Nov 20, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Nov 13, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Nov 5, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Oct 29, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Oct 22, 2022
- 7 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Oct 15, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Oct 9, 2022
- 4 min
The Opgrade Story
Hello everyone, thanks for watching this video, and thanks for celebrating with us. Today, October 9th is Opgrade's 10th Anniversary....
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Nate Barber
- Oct 8, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Oct 25, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Oct 22, 2018
- 1 min
Glossary of Lean Terminology
http://www.opgrade.com/leanglossary
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Nate Barber
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Sep 6, 2016
- 4 min
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...
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Nate Barber
- Sep 6, 2016
- 4 min
Steam Production
Availability Study Improves Revenue and Optimizes Equipment Configuration Methodology Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM)...
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Nate Barber
- Sep 6, 2016
- 4 min
Hydrogen Supply
Improved Hydrogen Supply Increases Annual Revenues by $30+ million Methodology Opgrade Performance Study of an existing petrochemical...
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Nate Barber
- Sep 6, 2016
- 4 min
Optimize Tank Sizing
Installing More Storage than Necessary is Simply a Waste of Capital Methodology Opgrade Performance study of an existing plant 50 Words...
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marketingopgrade
- Sep 6, 2016
- 4 min
Oil Sands Plant Infrastructure
Opgrade Study Establishes Business Case for $700 mil Infrastructure Investment Methodology Opgrade Plant Performance Study 50 Words or...
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marketingopgrade
- Jul 4, 2016
- 1 min
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...
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