When people hear the term Lean, they often worry it means eliminating people, that is not the case. In Lean, people are what make the system work and respect for those people is an integral part of Lean. Overall, rather than seeking to eliminate people, a Lean workplace should seek to ...
Genba – Actual Place Best known in the phrase “Gemba Walk”, which means to go where the work is done and observe. This is not just a management activity. Genchi Genbutsu – Actual Place, Actual ThingOften translated as “go and see”. It means to gather facts and consensus for goal ...
What Do You Think, when you say it to me, means: You are a person of value who has an opinion that I want to hear. And so, I’ve started taking it to its ultimate extreme and saying, “Okay, I want you to keep a little scorecard. Keep it in your pocket, wherever else. How ...
The Japanese term “gemba” means “the real place.” In the context of manufacturing, the production floor is the gemba, or the actual place where manufacturing occurs. The commonly-referred-to “Gemba Walk” originated with Taiichi Ohno, called “the father of the...
(Coleman & Vaghefi,1994), Gemba (Ohno,1982), Jidoka (Bruun & Mefford,2004), Kaizen (Mikvaa et al.,2016), and many others, that companies all over the world put into practice. In this paper, we want to narrow down our focus on one lean strategy called zero-defect manufacturing (...
Let’s assume you don’t have the knowledge to do this. It means you have to find a specialist who can make your laptop actually run. Both things will cost you money and time. In the end, you will have a working laptop after a week (if you are lucky), and you will probably neve...
Include pictures wherever possible to help simplify the steps and show (rather than tell) how they need to be completed. Go to Gemba When creating a standard operating sheet, it is important to outline the work as it happens. The only way to ensure that the standard operating sheet will ...
A Gemba Walk is a fundamental component of lean management. It describes the personal observation of work to learn more about it. Gemba is a Japanese word that loosely translates as “the real place”, or in business, “the place where value is created”. The Gemba Walk as a concept was...
Gemba Walks are an important mean of vertical integration in Lean Manufacturing environments. They ensure that all levels of the company stay connected with the front-line, "the Gemba", where the actual value is created. However, traditionally Gemba Walks have been restricted to one location. ...
This allows the business to formulate, test, and evaluate hypotheses. Experiment-Driven Development complements approaches such as TDD and BDD, but it does not replace them. EDD can be used in any industry or department as an efficient and (most importantly) objective means of agile software ...