Standard Work plays quite a significant role in Lean practice. But in the wrong hands it can do a lot of damage. Standardisation is very appealing, particularly to managers. They tend to like uniformity, a sense of order – doing everything in the same way. It makes their life easier. As an improvement technique, standard […]
Putting the thinking back into Lean
Lean has become very popular as an approach towards the design of business operations, from product development through to the provision of goods and services to the end customer. But this has not been without its problems, with many Lean initiatives failing to deliver the expected benefits, or in some cases leaving operations in a […]