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Don’t Lose Sight of “Why”

Monday, August 27, 2007

I just finished responding to a post on
lean.org where the poster was struggling a bit to justify moving two sequential operations together vs. the proposed simple solution of adding conveyance from one to the other. I thought it would be worth a bit to think that through.
In a previous post
“Sticky or Slick”, I [...]

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Art of Lean

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Art Smalley has a fantastic web site called
Art of Lean.
I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for “where to begin.”
Pay special attention to the e-learning piece on “Basic Stability.” This is where the money is, folks. Most of the waste (probably almost all of the waste) in your operation today is the [...]

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Hoopla - Another Quality Story

Sunday, August 5, 2007

As I said in a
previous post, I am spending the majority of my time in China right now.
As part of his preparation for attending a corporate class, one of my kaizen specialists was reviewing some of the training materials. From the other side of the cubicle wall he asks “What is ‘hoopla?” Although his [...]

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5 Seconds Matter

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

I was with the factory’s kaizen leader, and we were watching an operation toward the end of the assembly line.The takt time of this particular line was on the order of 400 minutes, about one unit a day. The exact takt really doesn’t matter, it was long compared to most.
One of the Team Members needed [...]

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