New Years Thought (as we all get a little older)

"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age"

Booth Tarkington

The Edge

As Winter Comes - The Lake Freeze Accumulates - at Chaffey's Lock

Clean and Simple Transverse Waves

Spot the Duck

Anyother Cool Book - The Toyota Way

The Toyota Way

What does the customer really really want – defines value
Define Waste – 8 ways – all equally important:

• Overproduction
• Waiting (time on hand)
• Unnecessary transport
• Over processing / Incorrect processing
• Excess inventory
• Unnecessary movement in the process of completing the work
• Defects in manufacture – repair / rework costs
• Unused employee creativity

Principles:

• Long term philosophy vs short term goals (Mission – contribute to country economy, well being of stakeholders, and Toyotas growth)
• With the right process the results will follow – trust it
• Continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface (link operations together)
• Use pull systems to avoid over production
• Level out work load (production control and management people) - heijunka
• Culture of stopping to fix problems to get quality right the first time -Judoka ( and Quality – Jidoka)
• Standardise tasks are the basis for continuous improvement and employee empowerment – balance rigid procedures vs challenge to improve
• Visual control so problems not hidden – Just in time information
• Use only reliable tested technology
• Grow leaders who understand the philosophy
• Develop exceptional people that will follow the philosophy
• Learn by doing
• Go and see for yourself (GENCHI GENBUTSU -)
• Make decisions slowly by consensus - Implement Rapidly - Nemawashi – a technique is employed to reduce misunderstanding
• Become a learning organisation through relentless reflection (Hansei) and continuous improvement (CI can only work with stable and standardised processes) –and KAIZEN

Flow

• ID customer and added value
• Separate repetitive from unique processes
• Map flow – value add and no value add
• Future state value stream map
• Learn by doing (Plan do act)

Personal Leanings

• Balance standardisation with individual autonomy – Currently more standardization would create greater efficiency and quality.
• Standardisation is a Core and Key base for CI – without it there is no CI
• Take the time get it right
• How to principles become common?

Web links:

http://www.fredharriman.com/services/glossary/jidoka.html
http://www.strategosinc.com/jidoka.htm
http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/management/gemba.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemawashi
http://www.si.umich.edu/

Broken Love
By William Blake (1757–1827)

MY Spectre around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way;
My Emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.

‘A fathomless and boundless deep,
There we wander, there we weep;
On the hungry craving wind
My Spectre follows thee behind.

‘He scents thy footsteps in the snow
Wheresoever thou dost go,
Thro’ the wintry hail and rain.
When wilt thou return again?

’Dost thou not in pride and scorn
Fill with tempests all my morn,
And with jealousies and fears
Fill my pleasant nights with tears?

‘Seven of my sweet loves thy knife
Has bereavèd of their life.
Their marble tombs I built with tears,
And with cold and shuddering fears.

‘Seven more loves weep night and day
Round the tombs where my loves lay,
And seven more loves attend each night
Around my couch with torches bright.

‘And seven more loves in my bed
Crown with wine my mournful head,
Pitying and forgiving all
Thy transgressions great and small.

‘When wilt thou return and view
My loves, and them to life renew?
When wilt thou return and live?
When wilt thou pity as I forgive?’

‘O’er my sins thou sit and moan:
Hast thou no sins of thy own?
O’er my sins thou sit and weep,
And lull thy own sins fast asleep.

‘What transgressions I commit
Are for thy transgressions fit.
They thy harlots, thou their slave;
And my bed becomes their grave.


‘Never, never, I return:
Still for victory I burn.
Living, thee alone I’ll have;
And when dead I’ll be thy grave.

‘Thro’ the Heaven and Earth and Hell
Thou shalt never, quell:
I will fly and thou pursue:
Night and morn the flight renew.’

‘Poor, pale, pitiable form
That I follow in a storm;
Iron tears and groans of lead
Bind around my aching head.

‘Till I turn from Female love
And root up the Infernal Grove,
I shall never worthy be
To step into Eternity.

‘And, to end thy cruel mocks,
Annihilate thee on the rocks,
And another form create
To be subservient to my fate.
‘Let us agree to give up love,

And root up the Infernal Grove;
Then shall we return and see
The worlds of happy Eternity.
‘And throughout all Eternity

I forgive you, you forgive me.
As our dear Redeemer said:
“This the Wine, and this the Bread.”’