Rethinking Value from the Base Up

How the machine tool industry can benefit from true lean thinking

Jamie Flinchbaugh

Do MoreWith Less

Pareto of Lean Failure Modes

Top 3 Failure Modes

1. Lean is about thinking, not tools

2. Leadership must be engaged, not just passive support

3. Don’t copy a strategy. Each

organization needs its own roadmap.

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Why Sustainability is Hard

Rules & Tools are not enough

Principles drive behaviors

How do we work at this level?

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Do More With Less – What You Deliver

“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we don’t

recognize.”-Shingeo Shingo

•Developing Developing solutions that deliver solutions that deliver more valuemore value

•Fits within the flow – takt time, footprint…•Minimizes changeovers (as a system)•Minimizes waste in supporting activities:

•Control panels•Oiler points

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Do More With Less – How You Deliver

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said

faster horses.”-Henry Ford

•Delivering solutions in Delivering solutions in a lean waya lean way

•Directly observe the situation, and understand the customer better than they understand themselves•Focus on waste within their process or the joint process•Establish high agreement of both what and how

•Most failures are from gaps in the how

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1 Percent Wildly

SuccessfulWill you follow

everyone else’s strategy, or chart a

new course?

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Your Next Steps

Changing culture requires…

Our principles are a product of our past experiences. To change them, we must:

1.Articulate the change. Give people the language that explains the thinking.

2.Give people new experiences that outweigh the old experiences.

3.Help people reflect to internalize the thinking.

Be the change you wish to see. Lean begins with you!

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Questions

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Jamie Flinchbaugh

Lean Learning Center

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