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Lean Manufacturing and Thought Experiments
This document introduces lean manufacturing principles from the automotive industry and discusses how those principles can be applied to other types of organizations beyond manufacturing. It argues that software companies are "decision factories" rather than code factories, and that the education system could be viewed as a "revelation factory" aimed at revealing things to students in better ways with fewer resources. The overall message is that lean principles of eliminating waste can be useful across different domains by focusing on what creates value for customers in each case.
Lean Manufacturing and Thought Experiments
- 1. Lean Manufacturing comesfrom a car factory
- 2. “valued work asdefined by the customers demand ... anything else is waste” - John Seddon (Rethinking Lean Service)
- 3. ... plus araft of techniques, processes, tools, etc to support the elimination of that waste
- 4. Just In TimeProduction Value Stream Mapping Continuous Improvement ... and so on
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- 6. “But I don’tmake cars!” But I don’t work with cars...
- 7. Lean Service Lean Construction LeanAccounting Lean Government
- 8. My Business is an_________ factory
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- 10. Software Companies arecode factories
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- 12. Software Companies are DECISION factories
- 13. The right numberof decisions, made right, at the right time
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- 15. a thought experiment: EDUCATION
- 16. HYPOTHESIS The EducationSystem is a “revelation” factory
- 17. Reveal more things,to more students, in better ways, with less resources
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- 19. What do youdo to make value? What are you doing that doesn’t?
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