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Often we are asked by clients to help them with the implementation of a lean technique; one they feel will solve their “biggest problem”. For example, some clients have asked us to assist them with the implementation of TPM believing their biggest problem was poor equipment reliability…
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Imagine for a moment that you had a group of employees who sporadically slowed their work pace, or worse, randomly stopped working for hours at a time. Imagine running your facility never knowing whether you would get 8 hours, 5 hours or 5 minutes of work from them on any given day.
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In all too many instances, there are complaints that accounting departments are a barrier to the Lean transformation. There is even a movement from some proclaiming that traditional accounting methods are too contrary to appreciate the benefits of lean and a newer approach referred to as “Lean Accounting” is the answer.
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Now, none of us are sitting around, not in today’s market. More than likely we are running around, from one thing to another, juggling 10 projects, or more, at the same time. So, perhaps a better description of what we are doing would be “Running Around Dying Efficiently.”
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In 1976 the movie Network was in theaters. There is a famous scene in the film where the lead character, Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) implores Americans to shout out their windows “I’m as mad as hell, and I am not going to take this anymore.”
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