For the next week they observed our production process and evaluated everything we did from grabbing the dies, changing out tools faster, the distance we walked to access certain equipment in the shop, to aligning the jigs and fixtures on our machines. Every step of the process was evaluated for efficiency and simplicity. (Location 245)
Lean thinking: eliminating waste and continuous improvement. (Location 255)
Finding the waste component is not a burden, it’s a game – a giant scavenger hunt. (Location 346)
When you make a process simpler, you yield a better, more satisfying result with less effort. (Location 348)
If it takes an hour to do something, ask how it can be done in 30 minutes. (Location 358)
Lean is about fixing what bugs you. (Location 416)
Raving Fans and The Purple Cow. (Location 765)
Kaas Tailored (run by my friend Jeff Kaas) in Everett, Washington (Location 1045)
“How to make a Lean video” (Location 1187)
The first pillar of Lean is to teach your people to see waste! (Location 1282)
The Third Pillar of Lean is…you must make “before and after” videos of all your improvements. (Location 1315)
The Toyota Way, 14 Principles of Operational Excellence and Art Byrne’s book, The Lean Turnaround (Location 1594)
Recently, on my show The American Innovator, I said, “Our goal is for everything to be struggle-free—or to have zero struggle in every activity.” (Location 1596)
Profit and money are a by-product of an effective Lean culture (Location 1668) Lean
