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Lean is Simple

  1. Deliver value from your customer’s perspective
  2. Respect for people (the time of my customer and the time of my worker) and resources (required to make everything happen)
  3. Eliminate waste
    1. Over Production — more than needed or before it is needed
    2. Transportation — unnecessary movements of products & materials
    3. Excess Inventory — excess products and materials being processed
    4. Defects — efforts caused by rework or incorrect information
    5. Over Processing — more work or higher quality than is required by the customer
    6. Wasted Motion — unnecessary movements by people (e.g. walking)
    7. Waiting — wasted time waiting for the next step in a process
    8. Wasted Employee Genius — underutilizing people’s talents, skills, & knowledge
  4. Continuously improve your processes. Make a 2 Second Improvement
  5. 3S — the most important activity anyone will every do to learn lean
    1. Sort
    2. Sweep
    3. Standardize
  6. Pull — rather than producing, customer demand pulls goods
  7. One Piece Flow — focus on one at a time, rather than making 20 at once, what if there is a defect, all 20 are impacted, make one at a time