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The Improvement Kata and DMAIC

The Lean Thinker

T oyota Kata Culture by Gerd Aulinger and Mike Rother offers a good example of this. This is a video of Gerd’s presentation to Kata School Cascadia on the process of developing problem-solving capacity and cascading goals. On the left is the conversation a manager / coach might have with the supervisor of the stamping area.

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Ambitious Growth Plans? Your Customers Will Right-Size You

The Lean Thinker

The business literature is full of examples of this – companies who could not keep up with their own success, their performance deteriorates and, well, many of them go out of business. Then ask “What is our plan to close this gap?” – and run the same exercise on executing that plan.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. In reality, it would take several rounds of fine-tuning to get all the orders sorted into routes without leaving any vehicles underutilised.”

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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

Thus, focusing on implementing the tools of TPS (takt time, flow, pull, etc) outside of the immediate response and problem solving context is an exercise which expends energy and gains very little sustainable change. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not. Every tool, technique, etc.

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Learning to See in 2023

The Lean Thinker

I dutifully presented my findings to the plant manager and his continuous improvement manager. ” exercise followed by a calculation about whether it is even worth going through that effort or might be cheaper to just outsource the entire thing to a “low wage country.” And things pretty much ended there.

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Mike Rother: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide

The Lean Thinker

On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. That book provides working examples of vertical linkage between organizational strategy and shop floor improvement efforts. Study the Process’s Operating Patterns.

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Using Data to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Material Handling and Logistics

It arrives from an array of sources, and it is presented in a variety of formats. The techniques require different degrees of sophistication, but even the relatively simple exercise of putting data from different sources in the same space and producing a visual representation can suggest strategies for transformation.