Lean Thoughts

to help folks identify waste and ultimately improve process all you need to do is stand and observe.

The central idea of LEAN – that everything should flow from raw material to the customer – came directly from Henry Ford. Ford,

Are you controlling your schedule or is your customer? but customers want it Faster, Better and Cheaper, modify your schedule.

If we view problems as opportunities that are causing variation within our process we need to use the proper methodology.

All people can give is their "Gift of Time" but ultimately they decide who gets that gift ... how welcoming are you in accepting this gift?

Annual Strategic Budget Thought Starters

Make your Plan Work your Plan MEET YOUR NUMBERS

The less wasteful a company is, the more profitable - assuming, of course, decent product

Yes your organization does have an Aura. Know it to manage a successful evolution.

Cadence being the gait that needs to be observed with your information and communication flow and the repeatability of tasks.

It is the physical path that a Material Handler follows from a central parts location to various consuming locations.

unless it directly contributes the primary guiding principal (Velocity) it becomes a waste of time, investment and ultimately money.

Really … it is common sense and you do not need 6 Sigma to figure this one out.

It has been said that the factory of the future will only require 2 occupants, 1 Human and 1 Dog.

It is all about Culture Speed of methodology absorption.

Ohno would quickly ask additional probing questions educating the engineer that perhaps they had “looked” but not “observed”

Workplace reorganization that transpired during Covid to protect people will now be expected as part of a Customer’s Value evaluation.

Richard-San, why are you taking such a simple concept, which is a natural human attribute based and developing a complex training model?...

Nope !!! You do not need Organizational First Aid. Really and actually you do, but you just have not yet realized it yet.

The perfect process consists of a single object transitioning through a series of operations while constantly accumulating value