OEE Double Trouble: The Biggest Danger & Most Common Mistake
I can understand the (sometime) human craving for neat, tidy numbers to make sense of the world. It is tempting, and I can see why, as a manager or leader, …
OEE Side Effects: Are You Becoming Efficiently Unlean?
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was first incorporated at DENSO CORPORATION in 1971. By 1982, Seiichi Nakajima had formally introduced Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to the world in his book, TPM …
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) – Is it foundational, a distraction or an obstacle?
Catalysed by Dr Wheelerโs recent Quality Digest article deconstructing OEE (link below) in my next few posts I am going to summarise a series of issues, problems, thoughts and opinions …
“Fray Bentos” Motorbikes – A Honda in the 1960’s
Welcome to the latest installment of the ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฑโ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฏ0 ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐! Have you ever heard of ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ๐? In chapter 1 of the book, Sid paints a …
Growing Heroes (Or Crushing Them in 20 Seconds Flat!)
Below are some further 30-year anniversary reflections of “Sid’s Heroes”! Broadcast back in 1995 on BBC1, this series of six half-hour programmes set out to celebrate the “grass-roots experts” who …
๐บ 30 Years Later: Are We Still Holding Out for a “Hero” at Work?
Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane, shall we? Back in the early 1990sโwell before “Lean Thinking” became the ultimate corporate buzzwordโthe UK’s industrial sector was hit by a …
Sky News SAS Heathrow Ticker Blunder – Are we all going to be replaced by AI?
This made me chuckle but, there is an important lesson to learn. A while ago now a close old school friend of my daughter had the human job of manually …
The infinite or forever biscuit โ Produce, bake, reject, regrind, repeatโฆ.
1. The Cookie Crumbles: An Infinite Loop Have you ever heard the urban myth about the ceramic producer who intentionally ramped up their production of “seconds” simply because their factory …
Chronic Inventory Syndrome โ A Self-Determined Limit to Lean
Almost Lean but Without the Real and Profound Benefits When the counter-intuitive reveals itself it generates a feeling like no other. As many say it seems like a veil is …
Suddenly โLearning to Seeโ โ Leanโs Counter-intuitive Truths
Thinking vs. Efficiency 2 A story of a beach ball, a โeurekaโ moment and lean success. Leanโs Uncomfortable Reality There is an uncomfortable reality when it comes to lean thinking …
Thinking Differently vs. Efficiency Gains
Thinking vs. Efficiency 1 A confession. Despite Deming and othersโ building some of the foundational thinking for lean, as a recovering โtoolheadโ engineer with a technical slant, I was a …
The Kaizen-Enabled Organisation – The Nimble, Agile Chief Engineer
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Survival, Kaizen and Speed 3 A Stark Contrast in Approach: An Anecdote Picture the time, the middle to late 1990โs. The …
Real Kaizen – “Survival of the…..Cleverest”?
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Survival, Kaizen and Speed 2 Plenty of Darwin and natural selection platitudes around at present but, in fact, it was in …
Ohnoโs Lasting Legacy – A Survival (kaizen) Work Culture
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Survival, Kaizen and Speed In the forgotten years between 1945 and 1965 Toyota and other Japanese motor manufacturers were fighting to …
Mind the โGembaโ Gap: Patchy Knowledge of โWork-as-Doneโ Could become a Significant Safety Risk
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Safety, Spatial Awareness and Human Work 3 An Unbelievable Accelerant The pandemic has been an unbelievable accelerant and has forced us …