Lean goes wrong when the waste walk is an event rather than a habit. The eight wastes get logged against the process step they belong to, 5S gets scored rather than eyeballed, and each improvement is tracked with a before and after. Then standard work is written down, because an improvement nobody documented is one that leaves with the person who made it.
What is in the box
- TIMWOODS waste walk
- 5S audit
- Kaizen tracker
- Poka-Yoke mistake-proofing
- Standard work and SOP templates
Lives at /lean-tools once you are signed in
What you leave with
- Waste logged against the step it happens at
- A scored 5S baseline
- Kaizens with a measured before and after
- Standard work somebody can follow
The agents that do this work
How the work is done
Lean
Take the waste out of the flow, then hold the new standard.
- Waste walk
- 5S audit
- Kaizen tracker
- Mistake-proofing
- Standard work template
Kaizen
Small improvements, run quickly, with the before and after measured.
- Kaizen tracker
- Idea hopper
- Control chart
- Pilot plan
The other five
- Value & ROIWe cannot show what the improvement work returned.
- Continuous ImprovementIdeas come in and nothing happens to them.
- QualityDefects reach the customer and we find out late.
- Process OptimizationThe process is slow and nobody agrees on why.
- Operational ExcellenceImprovement happens in pockets and never becomes how we work.