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The cornerstone of Lean Manufacturing is removing waste. One of the largest historical sources was inspection and repair: you built something and then inspecte
by csours 9y ago
The cornerstone of Lean Manufacturing is removing waste.
One of the largest historical sources was inspection and repair: you built something and then inspected it and fixed any problems. The inspectors and repair people didn't really talk to the production people much.
In Lean Manufacturing, the main purpose of inspection is to drive process improvements back into production. (This is the simplistic explanation, but I'm only using this as an analogy)
Thinking about data management - there's a lot of dirty data out there, and a lot of data munging to fix it up. Lean Data Management would drive process improvements into data acquisition.
Of course on the other hand, it's extremely cheap to fix data, on a per-unit of data basis. It's rule management that's expensive.
- keithnz 9y agothe cornerstone of lean is "flow" removing of waste is to the end of achieving flow (time it takes to get sales to delivery). Toyotas system is predicated on the idea that for manufacturing THEIR product the touch time is way less the than the buffer/quueue times ( ie, the time spent adding value is small compared to the the overall time to get an order and get it delivered. Eliminating waste is a means to an end to cut into unecessary buffers and queues and increase flow based on the constraints of the system. In software there's a lot of applicable ideas, but it's not exactly the same and requires careful thinking around what your revenue model is and how you deliver software based on that. But the focusing idea is not the practices of lean but how to increase flow and build (reuse) practices around that.
- csours 9y agoRight, as I said, that's the simplistic view, and just some of my thoughts.