Lean is Safety
TAGS: 5S | accident | acknowledge | address | anomaly | behavior | businessdictionary.com | continuous improvement | danger | environment | ergonomics | excess | harm | identify | inventory | leak | lean | lean blitz consulting | loss | motion | muda | mura | muri | overproduction | personnel | property | risk | safety | set in order | shine | slippery when wet | sort | standardization | standardize | straighten | strain | sustain | threat | transportation | unsafe | wastes | water | work First, let’s understand the concept of safety. Safety is defined as “relative freedom from danger, risk, or threat of harm, injury, or loss to personnel and/or property, whether caused deliberately or by accident” as per BusinessDictionary.com. So being in a safe situation …Continue reading →
Lean Tools: 5S, Sustain, and Crowning a Champion
TAGS: 5S | belt | blitz | champion | entertainment | heavyweight | john cena | lean | operations | pride | process | self-discipline | set in order | shine | six sigma | sort | staged | standardize | straighten | sustain | toy | train | trophy | visual factory | world | wrestling | wwe (The first four sections about 5S with links are Sort, Set In Order, Shine, and Standardize.) WWE heavyweight wrestling champions aren’t crowned because they beat one opponent. They earn the …Continue reading →
8 Wastes – Overprocessing
TAGS: bathroom | buff | candy bar | custodian | envelope | food | fortify | groundskeeper | hair | hot dogs | lean | manipulate | mickey mouse | natural | overprocessing | overzealous | packaging | paint | painting | security software | shine | spam | stadium | standardized work | t-shirt | ticket | ticket sales | walt disney world (This is the second in a series of deeper dives into the 8 lean wastes.) “Overprocessing” in the food world refers to the continual changing/adding/fortifying/manipulating of materials that takes it …Continue reading →