Lean Around the Clock – 2-day event in February in Mannheim
On February 25th and 26th, the event ‘Lean Around the Clock’ will take place in Mannheim with a large number of interesting speakers and contributions. Further information can be found here in the brochure Brochure LeanAroundTheClock or < a title="LeanAroundtheClock" href="http://www.leanaroundtheclock.de/">here. …
The types of waste (8): Misuse of employees
Originally, there are seven types of waste in Lean Thinking. Declaring the wrong use of employees as an additional type of waste definitely makes sense, because valuable resources are also lost here. This type of waste occurs when highly qualified employees, specialists …
The types of waste (7): Over- or under-performance of work processes
This type of waste means that the processes, procedures and work tasks are not supported by the right instruments, aids, tools etc. A classic example of this type of waste are unsuitable IT systems. This can be the break between manual and …
The types of waste (6): errors, queries, rework
Errors, queries, rework are generally to be regarded as waste. There is no added value and the goal of flowing processes is prevented. Errors that only occur with the customer have particularly negative effects: A negative image is created for the company …
The types of waste (5): Wrong and insufficient information flows
In the indirect areas of the company, information is the product that is worked with. Incorrect, missing or outdated information is often the cause of waste and extra work. The superfluous transport of information – which we all know in the form …
The types of waste (4): waiting and searching times
Everyone knows this from the private sector and tries to avoid it: waiting and searching times. It is not without reason that we make appointments with the doctor or office in the hope that it will be our turn without long waiting …
Lean management in construction
Lean and humane construction – a contribution by Kathrin Saheb on the blog on cybernetic construction project management http://www.k-bpm.de/ …
The types of waste (3): movement
Of course, movement in itself is not wasteful, but if work processes are interrupted or delayed, this also counts as a type of waste. How often do you experience in offices that you have to walk a long way to get to …
The types of waste (2): work supplies
What are (too high) inventories in production are in administrative areas the work stocks. Orders, invoices, purchase orders… everything that is left lying around and piling up is considered waste. With invoices, this is obvious at first glance: the later I send …
The types of waste (1): overproduction or reactive power
Logically we consider it wasteful to produce things that are not needed – a well-known example of this is the EU – Butterberg. But what about the indirect areas? The overproduction does not catch the eye and does not clog up storage …
Lean Administration Applied: The Recruitment Process (Part 2)
What happens now? As I said, the joint recording of the actual lived process already provides for some ‘aha effects’: often here it is understood first of all what the colleagues are doing and what they actually need for their work. Now …
Lean Administration Survey
Last year, Saheb Consulting conducted a company survey on the subject of ‘lean administration’. The aim of the survey was to show what benefits are associated with the implementation and where the greatest obstacles lie. 60 companies took part. The results are …
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