Comments on: Overproduction http://oldleandude.com/2014/09/25/overproduction/ A Blog About Understanding TPS and Gaining Its Full Benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy" Wed, 20 Apr 2016 22:24:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The KaiZone Friday Favorites for October 10th, 2014 | The Best of Lean and TPS Blogs http://oldleandude.com/2014/09/25/overproduction/#comment-5758 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:01:28 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1623#comment-5758 […]  Overproduction by Bruce Hamilton. “One of my favorite Shigeo Shingo quotes is: “The most dangerous kind of […]

]]> By: Jerry http://oldleandude.com/2014/09/25/overproduction/#comment-5564 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:17:05 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1623#comment-5564 Nice blog! I get the point but in sports you’re the World Champion until you are dethroned. So even though they are in last place and out of contention, technically they are still the World Champion Boston Red Sox until the new champion is decided late in October. Hopefully most of that ice cream will be consumed by then! If not, maybe you have a (soggy) collector’s item…

]]> By: Gary Peterson http://oldleandude.com/2014/09/25/overproduction/#comment-5521 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:58:56 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1623#comment-5521 When our production leadtime was an embarrasing five weeks, we found ourselves trying to guess what our customers would buy. We had product that was partially finished, and we also held onto some finished product. Here’s the kicker – it seems like we never had exactly what the client wanted.

Now that our production only takes an hour, we don’t issue materials until we know we can ship it. But wait a minute. Then why are there packages waiting in shipping for legitimate addresses? Looks like we still have some work to do further up the value stream!

]]> By: Dan Fleming http://oldleandude.com/2014/09/25/overproduction/#comment-5450 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:19:24 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=1623#comment-5450 Is that a selfie Bruce?

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