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Category: Lean joy

  • The hidden power to improve everything

    What a heck are you doing? Lost your mind?With shaking hands, I was kneeling on the floor. In front of me, a broken strange box. What did I do? That was not planned, but now I got into this situation, and even worse, my working colleagues saw me. The secret I have been carrying all…

  • Trust

    “Hello Charlie, I want to report on our last Lean Kaizen event. It was great! We gathered together with the local management and process planner, got ideas together and managed to take out 3 Employees from the process. This translates into an annual saving of more than 150T Euro. Isn’t it great?” “How about trust?”…

  • Pull-Takt-Flow Simulation Using Playing Cards

    Objective In this game, the participants will learn the benefits of implementing pull, one-piece-flow and takt. By playing with the deck of cards, the effects of each one of these Lean Principles becomes visible. Additionally, the participants are able to improve the production by defining new standards. Number of Participants Minimum 3 assembly workers for…

  • The Joy of Problem Solving

    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…

  • How to Play Scrum Planning Poker in 4 Simple Steps

    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…

  • Simple and Fun 5S Simulation Using Playing Cards

    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…

  • The Manufacturing Deck

    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…

  • Shopfloor meetings, a interesting way to think about

    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…

  • 44 Most Important Lean Tools and Methods

    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…

  • T-Cards explaned

    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…