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008 – The Crucial Role of Lean Standard Work

February 19, 2019 by Daniel

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Today I am talking about the concept of lean standard work and why it is crucial to your success with lean. I’m actually especially excited to talk to you about standard work because it is a very very undervalued lean tool. Most people don’t care much about it. They would rather be learning how to do kaizen, or value stream mapping, or 5S, or some other lean thing. I do keyword research of course at Lean Smarts, and I’ve noticed that there are 75 times more google searches a month for the word “kaizen” than for the word “standard work.” I find that very interesting, and also disappointing, as I will go on to explain in this episode.

So what I’m going to do is focus on three things for today:

What is Standard Work
Different Types of Standard Work
Four Reasons why Standard Work Matters

The Waste of Transportation: Two Factors

February 12, 2019 by Daniel

Recently I was asked for a video on the waste of transportation and to go past the simple explaination of “trucks,” so I came up with this! Discover two factors that influence the waste of transportation inside organizations and between team members, departments, and production lines.Learn more about the wastes of lean in our FREE course here.

007 – Lean Thinking is Scientific Thinking

January 28, 2019 by Daniel

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So far in this podcast series I’ve introduced essential lean concepts like the idea of value and the seven wastes of lean. I’ve also discussed the concept of flow and the evils of over production.

The thing is, though, that all of these ideas are the outcome of scientific thinking and how scientific thinking solves problems. Why is it that Toyota mastered one piece flow? It’s because it’s economy was devastated after World War II and it wasn’t possible to remain competitive when following the mass production model used by American car manufacturers. They had to get creative and learn how to quickly convert an order into cash. The answer was flow and just-in-time manufacturing. [Read more…] about 007 – Lean Thinking is Scientific Thinking

Fun Lean 5S Capsule Closet

January 21, 2019 by Daniel

Discover how to make doing the laundry WAY easier by applying the concepts of 5S and reduced batch size! By reducing the batch size of clothes in our laundry process we’re simplifying our weekly laundry and making it more manageable. This reduces the waste of over production and the overburden that follows!

Learn more about 5S in our FREE course here.