The first installment in the Pull Planning Primer explored the confusion people have between the activity they can observe and the outcomes they are pursuing with pull planning. One of the keys to success in designing a production system based on lean principles is to get all of the work experts who are supervising the [...]
Pull Planning Confusion
August 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
Many people misunderstand pull planning, a central practice in the Last Planner® System. It stems, in part, from an unfortunate characterization that some early LPS practitioners made. They called pull planning “reverse phase scheduling.” That name only tells one small part of the story. The purpose of pull planning is to design a project-based production [...]
Focus on Tool Users for Lean Success
August 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
John Seddon warns, Watch Out for the Toolheads. Ralph Keller, President of Assoc for Manufacturing Excellence claims Tools Are Necessary, but Not Sufficient. Bob Emiliani coined the term “Fake Lean” to describe the tool-based focus on continuous improvement that had become ubiquitous. In my study of Toyota and the work we do with design and [...]
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