Manufacturing Process of Baseballs
TAGS: adhesive | baseball | blitz | center | core | cork | errors | lean | leather | lifting | machine | manufacturing | motion | neyer | operations | overseas | pill | poka-yoke | poly | process | rawlings | rob | rubber | sbnation | sew | six sigma | stamping | standardized | stitching | video | waste | weight | wool | yarn This is a great video on the baseball manufacturing process. So how many wasteful activities did you spot in the process? Here are some things I saw (obviously not comprehensive): …Continue reading →
Newfangled Gas Station Tire Air Machine
TAGS: accurate | air | blitz | brass | credit card | customize | digital | easy | errors | etch | gas | hose | instructions | lean | machine | operations | options | payment | plastic | pressure | process | simple | six sigma | sports | station | time Behold! This is easily one of my favorite newest discoveries out in the world. It’s a gas station tire air machine…but it’s so much more than that. It’s a gigantic …Continue reading →
8 Lean Wastes – Defects/Scrap/Rework
TAGS: chain | coke | customer | defects | diet coke | errors | poka-yoke | rework | scrap | vendor | wasted time (This is the first in a series of deeper dives into the eight Lean wastes. Today we start with the Lean waste defects.) Defective products can sap resources multiple times …Continue reading →