If you think problems disappear in mature lean organizations, you'd be wrong. What changes is how organizations react to those problems and how leaders' roles evolve.
Every engineering change requires someone to manually carry updates across your process chain. Under production pressure, that doesn't happen consistently. Gaps build. Findings follow. Cooper Tire cut audit administration by 80% by connecting those documents, not by adding work to their team. “The Automotive Supplier's Continuous Compliance Playbook” shows how to build that system.
Courtesy of Plant Services, which is, like IndustryWeek, an Endeavor Business Media brand: A strong planning function is the key to maximizing maintenance labor capacity, but too many senior leaders ignore this fact.
Has your organization fallen prey to the three threats of lean maturity models? Dr. Mohamed Saleh and John Dyer discuss maturity model risks in this episode of Behind the Curtain: Adventures in Continuous Improvement.
