Comments on: WWTD? Think! http://www.leanblog.org/2008/03/wwtd-think/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PederZen http://www.leanblog.org/2008/03/wwtd-think/#comment-3328 PederZen Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:58:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2008/03/wwtd-think/#comment-3328 I agree with Mark. Quality of thinking is paramount.<br/><br/>You need to make your thinking explicit in order to challenge the consistency: Logical consistency of arguments and consistency between thinking and observations.<br/><br/>The point about making your thinking explicit is very central. If your thinking is not explicit it cannot be challenged and you cannot learn. It is essentially the same as saying that you need to know the "Why".<br/><br/>You must realize that your thinking is the first steps in the "supply chain". You don't just want end of line quality inspection (the action did not produce the desired result). You need to build indicators into your experiments (all changes!) that will give you a hint about the root cause (what premises in my argumentation does not seem to hold?).<br/><br/>5S your thinking! I agree with Mark. Quality of thinking is paramount.

You need to make your thinking explicit in order to challenge the consistency: Logical consistency of arguments and consistency between thinking and observations.

The point about making your thinking explicit is very central. If your thinking is not explicit it cannot be challenged and you cannot learn. It is essentially the same as saying that you need to know the “Why”.

You must realize that your thinking is the first steps in the “supply chain”. You don’t just want end of line quality inspection (the action did not produce the desired result). You need to build indicators into your experiments (all changes!) that will give you a hint about the root cause (what premises in my argumentation does not seem to hold?).

5S your thinking!

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]]> By: Derek http://www.leanblog.org/2008/03/wwtd-think/#comment-3325 Derek Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:19:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2008/03/wwtd-think/#comment-3325 I would think you would want your kaizen teams to create "U" shaped cells for several reasons when starting off with a fresh location. First, it helps drive consistency of which everyone in the cell can help reduce the variation. Second, it increases communication. Third, it consumes less floor space. Fourth, it just plain looks different which gets people thinking differently, and out of the normal production box. Once a company gets to a point in their TPS life, then they could consider doing something different in order to continue to drive results. I would think you would want your kaizen teams to create “U” shaped cells for several reasons when starting off with a fresh location. First, it helps drive consistency of which everyone in the cell can help reduce the variation. Second, it increases communication. Third, it consumes less floor space. Fourth, it just plain looks different which gets people thinking differently, and out of the normal production box. Once a company gets to a point in their TPS life, then they could consider doing something different in order to continue to drive results.

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]]> By: David http://www.leanblog.org/2008/03/wwtd-think/#comment-3321 David Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:37:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2008/03/wwtd-think/#comment-3321 Gen George Marshall: "No one every won a battle by frantically trying to remember what someone once did in some vaguely similar situation."<br/><br/>(approximate quote0 Gen George Marshall: “No one every won a battle by frantically trying to remember what someone once did in some vaguely similar situation.”

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