Progressive Lean: The Overall Idea of It, Part Four
OK, this is the last introductory chapter I promise.
I just wanted to go into a bit of the philosophical underpinnings of Progressive Lean before continuing on. I broached the topic a bit in my last post on advantages and disadvantages and want to develop some of those ideas further.
I tell my clients that all agile and lean boils down to two ideas:
Low variability is another way of saying "operating excellence". In other words, operating excellence is a foundation of agility and has to be achieved (or, at least, approached) before you can have good flow. So that's what we work on first....operating excellence.
Now, the road to operating excellence goes through orderliness. There's no other way. So the early steps of Progressive Lean are devoted to creating that orderliness: Sort and Shine in phase two and Straighten and See (visual controls) in phase three.
The road to operating excellence (reduced and controlled variation) also goes through standard work practices for leaders and operators. Standard practice starts with standard conditions...sort and shine and straighten and see.
I just wanted to go into a bit of the philosophical underpinnings of Progressive Lean before continuing on. I broached the topic a bit in my last post on advantages and disadvantages and want to develop some of those ideas further.
I tell my clients that all agile and lean boils down to two ideas:
- Reducing variability of performance
- Improving flow of material and information
Low variability is another way of saying "operating excellence". In other words, operating excellence is a foundation of agility and has to be achieved (or, at least, approached) before you can have good flow. So that's what we work on first....operating excellence.
Now, the road to operating excellence goes through orderliness. There's no other way. So the early steps of Progressive Lean are devoted to creating that orderliness: Sort and Shine in phase two and Straighten and See (visual controls) in phase three.
The road to operating excellence (reduced and controlled variation) also goes through standard work practices for leaders and operators. Standard practice starts with standard conditions...sort and shine and straighten and see.
Posted by George Bohan at Wednesday, October 05. 2011 
Categories: How to Implement Lean Manufacturing
Categories: How to Implement Lean Manufacturing
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