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Category Archives: The Basics

Takt Time and Leveling - What’s The Point?

A few days ago I wrote about asking “What is your takt time?” and the likely responses to that question. But in my list of common responses, I left one out - “What’s the point? We get everything out by the time the truck leaves.”
Here’s a real-life example: In a high-volume consumer goods factory [...]

Computer Kaizen

We were at a business meeting and my coworker was waiting impatiently for his laptop computer to finish booting up. He and I were sitting next to each other, had identical machines, but I was already working. He made some comment about my machine booting faster for some reason.
But that wasn’t the case.
Here is his [...]