Tag: Ohno
The Video From the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan
When I visited the Toyota Museum in Nagoya, Japan (see my previous blog posts about it), they had a display that includes a video...
Philip Holt on Leading and Living Lean, With Simplicity
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My guest for Episode #460 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Philip Holt.
He is...
This WSJ Article About Lean Isn’t Terrible (Thanks to GE and...
The Wall Street Journal has an epic track record when it comes to always getting it wrong when they write about Lean or the...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Jan 29, 2021
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him!
Healthcare -- Creating Value...
Anti-Racism: A River WE Must Cross
Starting With the Grand-Daddies of Quality
A few years back I developed a blog series titled, "The Grand-Daddies of Quality"-- my goal was to delve...
Episode #13 of “Lean Whiskey”: Don’t Drink Pacific Northwest Whiskeys While...
In Episode 13 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh reconnect in their first joint episode this year, after a couple weeks of...
Our Condo Maintenance Guy Gets the Point of 5S and Maximizing...
I got onto the elevator in the lobby of our condo building one day last week. Our building's maintenance guy was already on there...
Debunking Misconceptions About Toyota Production System: Video Insights From Nampachi Hayashi
tl;dr: In this post, Mark shares insights from a video featuring Nampachi Hayashi, a senior advisor at Toyota, discussing common misunderstandings about the Toyota...
Highlights from our Lean Event Tour at Toyota
Last week was ourĀ first "Symposium on Learning Organizations" where we brought together 40 people with diverse backgrounds in manufacturing, healthcare, IT, government, and other industries or professions together to learn from each other in a "PowerPoint-free zone."
In this post, I'll share some photos and reflections on our tour of the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio (TMMTX). The visitor center has been completely revamped from my last visit, just as the one visitor center I saw in Japan back in March had been redone.
Telling Dentists or Patients What to Do or Evoking Reasons for...
In this post, I talk about my dental practices "need" to get Lean, my need to floss, and some of the tactics that help others change. You being right doesn't mean mean others will accept your Lean practices or your scolding about flossing nightly.
Major League Baseball Works on Standardizing the Ball… For What Purpose?
Back in 2014, I wrote an article for The Lean Post:
"Standardization is a Countermeasure, Never the Goal"
I'm a big fan of Taiichi Ohno's advice to "start from need." I cringe when I hear people say that we should standardize the way work is done "because Lean says so." There's no substitute for judgment in the grey areas related to standardized work.
What should we standardize? For what purpose? How standardized should the work be?
Baseball is struggling with questions like this... how standardized should the balls be... and for what purpose?
What Books on #Lean and TPS Are Sold at the Toyota...
It's Monday morning in Nagoya, Japan as I write this. I'm still jet-lagged and up early, so here's a blog post after all...
Sunday, I had the chance to visit the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya. There's so much that I can blog about...I'll write more posts about my museum visit in the future.
In this post though, I share a little bit about some of the books that they sell - in English and Japanese...