Lean Thoughts

The sterile and clinical approach to classifying and categorizing your inventory is to sector it with an A, B, C, designation. Personally, I find this extremely boring and find that replacing the ABC classes with "Runners, Repeaters and Strangers"

Standard Work. My immediate response, was no friggin way !! No body is going to control every minute of my day by telling what to do, when to do it and why?

Manufacturers are masters of improvisation. We’re good at figuring things out on the fly.

Inventory is like a dormant bomb waiting to detonate

Cadence and agility can be defined by how quick you are at changeovers.

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