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Practical Lean guide
Lean in practice
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Changeover time starts long before the first move
The machine is stopped, the setter is looking for the tool, the drawing is missing, the crane is busy. Changeover time is rarely lost at the machine. It is lost beforehand. Here is how to find those losses.
Three plants, one standard? Why copying does not work
In the lead plant, lean works; in the other plants it stays on paper. Why copying standards fails and how to transfer the principle instead of the template.
KPIs nobody reads, and the one that changes everything
The KPIs hang on the board, the behaviour in the hall stays the same. Why that is, and how OEE, lead time and delivery performance become tools that teams use to steer themselves.
The bottleneck sits in the office, not in the hall
All machines are running, yet the delivery dates are shaky. I explain why the bottleneck usually sits outside manufacturing and how to take the whole value stream into view.