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It’s a beautiful day, sun is shining birds are flying. Everyone is happy and you are heading to work. You arrive at your desk and find a pile of problems waiting for you. And if that’s not enough, your boss comes to you and says: “Here, take these papers and deal with them. I am…
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Scrum card game Planning Poker is a way for Scrum & Agile Development teams to estimate the effort to reach their goals. It is a fun game in which each participant uses cards to give his estimation about the time to complete a certain task. The main advantage of using cards is that the first person to provide an estimation…
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I created a simple 5S game using playing cards. This is the first of a series of games to be released with the Manufacturing Deck in July 2020. I hope you like it. Feel free to give suggestions or comments. If you like these playing cards, then make sure to check http://kck.st/2QJu3Nx. You can get…
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Hi there,Today I am Launching the Manufacturing Deck. It is my contribution to make Lean Manufacturing fun.?The Manufacturing Deck is a deck of cards beautifully designed to contain the main concepts for excellence in manufacturing. The deck contains 48 methods, tools and principles applied in manufacturing industries and a set of game instructions to experience…
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But first another question… What is this: Answer: A drill. 6mm diameter, 100mm long for concrete drilling. Can you say how many people in the world wanted to have exactly this drill in the year 2019? Difficult question? Do you need to make some calculations based on a few assumptions? What if I said to…
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The vast quantity of Lean Manufacturing tools, methods and principles, makes it difficult to keep track of everything. To ease your life a little, here a list of 44 main Lean tools and principles. 5 whys Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? 5 whys is an iterative interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying…
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T-Cards can help you to continuously imporve working standards and are applicable to an infinite amount of areas. Here you find an good example to make your office more effective and productive using T-Cards. T-Cards / Kamishibai Boards T-cards, also known as Kamishibai are usually applied for process confirmation or tasks that need to be…
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Everyone who has worked in a big company knows it: You have a good idea and want to see it become reality. What do you do? You take CIP formulary and fill it out. Write in your name, department, describe the current situation and what should be changed. You take this formulary and place it…
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Some might look at things the way they are, and ask why? Others imagine things the way they could be, and ask why not? Some might collect many ideas and implement the ones that best fit the target, others define the best target and reach it with many ideas. Someone might do things right the…
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You finished the project within time. That’s great! Well, it was really a team effort. Thanks to the detailed master plan we could achieve success delivering the project as expected. How did you manage to predict the exact duration of each task so well in advance? Actually the estimated times for each activity have differed…