Comments on: Poka Yoke for your PC http://www.leanblog.org/2006/12/poka-yoke-for-your-pc/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike L http://www.leanblog.org/2006/12/poka-yoke-for-your-pc/#comment-1393 Mike L Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:36:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2006/12/poka-yoke-for-your-pc/#comment-1393 I just backed-up onto my server; thanks for the reminder. I like your example of Poka Yoke in everyday life. <br/><br/>I work in a factory, and it's hard to get people to understand the importance of mistake-proofing. There's always this habit of relying on installers to do the job right, instead of making it impossible to do it wrong. While I think it's important to expect quality from your people, it's negligent to rely only on their personal pride to get the job done correctly. I just backed-up onto my server; thanks for the reminder. I like your example of Poka Yoke in everyday life.

I work in a factory, and it’s hard to get people to understand the importance of mistake-proofing. There’s always this habit of relying on installers to do the job right, instead of making it impossible to do it wrong. While I think it’s important to expect quality from your people, it’s negligent to rely only on their personal pride to get the job done correctly.

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]]> By: Mike Lopez http://www.leanblog.org/2006/12/poka-yoke-for-your-pc/#comment-1376 Mike Lopez Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:37:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2006/12/poka-yoke-for-your-pc/#comment-1376 Isn't that amazing that just a few years ago, 20 MB was a huge amount of data. You would have to try really hard to fill that drive up. Nowadays, most podcasts are bigger than 20 MB. In my pen drive, I can fit 400 20 MB hard drives. When I was in high school, back in 1993, my favorite magazine was Computer Shopper. I used to read it every month and watch the price of computer equipment fall. In my economics class, I decided to do a study of the price of hard drive storage. By studying several months of Computer Shopper and plotting the trends, I concluded that the size of storage would skyrocket as the price of storage fell like a stone. My conclusion was that by some year, we would have gigabytes for a few dollars. When I presented the report, my teacher said, "Yeah right." She thought I was crazy. Of course, I had the last laugh on that one.<br/><br/>Experiences like that are important. It taught me to follow and believe the data even in the face of opposition from a higher authority. Isn’t that amazing that just a few years ago, 20 MB was a huge amount of data. You would have to try really hard to fill that drive up. Nowadays, most podcasts are bigger than 20 MB. In my pen drive, I can fit 400 20 MB hard drives. When I was in high school, back in 1993, my favorite magazine was Computer Shopper. I used to read it every month and watch the price of computer equipment fall. In my economics class, I decided to do a study of the price of hard drive storage. By studying several months of Computer Shopper and plotting the trends, I concluded that the size of storage would skyrocket as the price of storage fell like a stone. My conclusion was that by some year, we would have gigabytes for a few dollars. When I presented the report, my teacher said, “Yeah right.” She thought I was crazy. Of course, I had the last laugh on that one.

Experiences like that are important. It taught me to follow and believe the data even in the face of opposition from a higher authority.

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