When we opened the storefront, everyone had something to say about how to fry our chicken. Two other business owners and even a nationally-renown chef told us we should par-fry the chicken. The problem with it is that par-frying increases the batching of work in process (WIP) enormously! We gave them the benefit of the …
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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 …
[powerpress] Transcript Thank you again for joining me once more for the Lean Smarts Podcast. I’m you’re host, Daniel Crawford, and this is the show where I talk about lean in simple terms and try to keep it fun. In the past few episodes I have given an overview on each of the seven wastes …
Today we give an explanation for how over production increases the remaining seven wastes of lean manufacturing using an everyday laundry machine. Avoid the evils of over production by reducing the batch size as much as possible!
