Two weeks ago we talked about the eight wastes and using a waste walk to identify them in your organization. As a review, your rapid improvement team members go on a waste walk, capture the wastes they observe, and placed them on a DOWNTIME chart. Then they brainstorm solutions to eliminate the waste. A great …
Last week we talked about the eight wastes and using a waste walk to identify them in your organization. As a review, your rapid improvement team members go on a waste walk, capture the wastes they observe, and placed them on a DOWNTIME chart. Then they brainstormed solutions to eliminate the waste. The next step …
Toyota identified seven wastes as they developed the Toyota Production System from 1948 to 1975. As the production system was integrated into Western culture the eighth waste- Not Listening to People’s Ideas was adopted. Let’s focus on using a DOWNTIME chart to identify waste. When put into the correct order, the eight wastes spell out …
One of the key elements of a kaizen event is conducting a report out at the end of the event. Having led over 400 kaizen events, I believe I have found a successful report out format. Learn about my successful kaizen event report out format in this blog. Every company does their report outs differently. …
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Last week I shared the importance of developing and A3 or project charter for your kaizen events. This week I want to share my kaizen event sequence of events. I have led over 450 kaizen events in my career and I have a good sequence of events. Here is how to hold a successful kaizen …
Last week I talked about identifying kaizen events that will impact your KPI’s. That’s a great start. Hopefully, you have a Lean Game Plan for the quarter and are ready to get going. While the excitement in your organization is high, before your first event it is important that you complete a project charter or …
As you develop your Lean Game Plan, you’ll identify KPI’s–Key Performance Indicators that you want to affect with your Lean improvements. Often you need to go several layers deep before you get to the actual kaizen event. This blog will explain how to match your kaizen’s to KPIs successfully. Let’s use the picture above as …
A great way to increase your quality quickly is to develop and deploy Visual Instruction Sheets. Many people, myself included, learn best visually. Let’s make it simple for them to learn how to assemble your product by using Visual Instruction Sheets. Here is what you will gain by using this tool. Benefit 1 – Supports …
It has been interesting for me to see that we have a coin shortage right now. Years ago (2000), I was part of an internal Lean team working with the US Mint locations. We headquartered from the Denver Mint. Our goal was to implement Lean concepts at all Mint locations- Denver, San Francisco, West Point, …
What is the KPI buffet? It is measuring so many KPI’s that you can’t tell the direction of the company. I consulted with a company measuring 30 different KPI’s when they began their Lean journey. When we worked on their Lean Management System, one of the pillars became to measure what matters. They took that …