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W. Deming also played a pretty large role too[1]. The whole history around Lean/Kaizen/etc is pretty fascinating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_

W. Deming also played a pretty large role too[1]. The whole history around Lean/Kaizen/etc is pretty fascinating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

throw0101a 7y ago
Deming was about quality control, which dovetails into lean: you can only do the latter if you know your parts bin is good, and that you can trust your supplier/s to deliver.
- ethbro 7y ago
  In that sense, lean is essentially the same solution as reducing buffer size to increase network throughout. Excess capacity pooling decreases stopages but prevents signalling of problems back through the chain.
vram22 7y ago
Do you have some links for the history? I'm interested in Lean and Kaizen. Made a comment about it in this thread.
- vvanders 7y ago
  It's covered a little in the TAL episode on NUMMI[1]. There's also a bit of it involved with TWI[2][3]. I'd read some other interesting things about skill transfer post-WW2 with the Marshall Plan but having trouble finding the original source material. [1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry#Post_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry#Post_... [3] https://twi-institute.org/training-within-industry/history/ https://twi-institute.org/training-within-industry/history/
  - vram22 7y ago
    Great, will check those links out, thank you.
  - vram22 7y ago
    This part from your link [2] is interesting: >In the Foreword to Dinero's book "Training Within Industry", John Shook relates a story in which a Toyota trainer brought out an old copy of a TWI service manual to prove to him that American workers at NUMMI could be taught using the "Japanese" methods used at Toyota. Thus, TWI was the forerunner of what is today regarded as a Japanese creation.

throw0101a 7y ago

Deming was about quality control, which dovetails into lean: you can only do the latter if you know your parts bin is good, and that you can trust your supplier/s to deliver.

ethbro 7y ago
In that sense, lean is essentially the same solution as reducing buffer size to increase network throughout. Excess capacity pooling decreases stopages but prevents signalling of problems back through the chain.

vram22 7y ago

Do you have some links for the history? I'm interested in Lean and Kaizen. Made a comment about it in this thread.

vvanders 7y ago
It's covered a little in the TAL episode on NUMMI[1]. There's also a bit of it involved with TWI[2][3]. I'd read some other interesting things about skill transfer post-WW2 with the Marshall Plan but having trouble finding the original source material. [1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry#Post_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry#Post_... [3] https://twi-institute.org/training-within-industry/history/ https://twi-institute.org/training-within-industry/history/
- vram22 7y ago
  Great, will check those links out, thank you.
- vram22 7y ago
  This part from your link [2] is interesting: >In the Foreword to Dinero's book "Training Within Industry", John Shook relates a story in which a Toyota trainer brought out an old copy of a TWI service manual to prove to him that American workers at NUMMI could be taught using the "Japanese" methods used at Toyota. Thus, TWI was the forerunner of what is today regarded as a Japanese creation.