Comments on: Mental Muri Migraine http://oldleandude.com/2012/10/09/mental-muri-migraine/ A Blog About Understanding TPS and Gaining Its Full Benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy" Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:59:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nate Clark http://oldleandude.com/2012/10/09/mental-muri-migraine/#comment-875 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:08:15 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1070#comment-875 What if we applied countermeasures in a systematic way that was based on the scientific experiment? Iteratively, team members would formulate a hypothesis, test it (with preconceived assumptions), document and reflect on it.

A horizontal line from top management to shop floor employees, transparently flowing information using the PDCA cycle coupled with true respect for people, please tell me the company and I’ll sign up!

“Kaizen is everybody’s business” – Nate

]]> By: toastguy http://oldleandude.com/2012/10/09/mental-muri-migraine/#comment-874 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:43:11 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1070#comment-874 All great examples, and as noted, all too commonplace. So how do we “make these problems ugly?” Can someone share a countermeasure?
Bruce

]]> By: Dave http://oldleandude.com/2012/10/09/mental-muri-migraine/#comment-873 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:15:48 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1070#comment-873 Operators on the floor experience this a lot with “run standards”. Their work order will have a published standard, the “hour by hour” board has a hand written standard (never matches the work order), there is almost always some “old” version of run standards posted somewhere by the machine controls, and the supervisor wants them to run to some other standard because “were behind”…..

Ask any operator about their run standard and they will most likely tell you “The standards are never right, I dont know which ones I am supposed to follow, so I dont pay attention to any of them”

]]> By: Robert Drescher http://oldleandude.com/2012/10/09/mental-muri-migraine/#comment-872 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:42:28 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1070#comment-872 Computer filing systems and databases are my personal biggest headache. There are way to many files or pieces of information stored in too many different places for no really good reason.

Though the single biggest Mental Muri Migraine I get is from tax systems there are just too many different ones none of which actually seem to truly achieve anything they were designed for. The only thing they are really good at is causing extra paper work.

]]> By: pcwilson5211 http://oldleandude.com/2012/10/09/mental-muri-migraine/#comment-870 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:52:37 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1070#comment-870 Great point. Information defects are a large source of waste and impact some of the most highly compensated individuals in the organization.

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