F96: Lean Principle: Go to Gemba
(Room S401A)
13 Nov 19
8:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Tracks:
Lean, Marketing & Sales
Gemba is where the work is at. How can you have deep understanding of the work if you don't go to gemba? Your production employees spend almost all their time in gemba where they run press brakes, weld frames, or assemble end products. But how much time do your supervisors, managers, support personnel, and executives spend in the production gemba? For the time they do spend there, is it productive or is it a gemba "drive-by"? We will explore how to take effective gemba walks, what sort of questions instill understanding, and how you can develop a deeper relationship with the front-line employees. We will learn how to use the 8 wastes to see more deeply into the processes your people are working in. Finally, we will explore how to identify the improvement potential in the gray areas between operations. Let's go to gemba!
Jeff Sipes - Back2Basics, LLC