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“The end objective of flow thinking is to totally eliminate all stoppages in an entire production process and not to rest in the area of tool design until this has been achieved.” quote by James P. Womack — Download Open image

““The end objective of flow thinking is to totally eliminate all stoppages in an entire production process and not to rest in the area of tool design until this has been achieved.””

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“So, how do you make value flow? The first step, once value is defined and the entire value stream is identified, is to focus on the actual object—the specific design, the specific order, and the product itself (a “cure,” a trip, a house, a bicycle)—and never let it out of sight from beginning to completion. The second step, which makes…

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“Steve Maynard’s solution was to form a team for each product to stick with that product during its entire production life. This team—consisting of a marketer, a product engineer, and a tooling/process engineer—proceeded to enter into a dialogue with leading customers (major contractors) in which all of the old products and solutions were ignored. Instead, the customer and the producer…

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“By contrast, work in an organization where value is made to flow continuously also creates the conditions for psychological flow. Every employee has immediate…

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“This approach seems completely backward to traditional managers who have been told all their lives that competitive advantage in manufacture is obtained from automating,…

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“What is the muda-free cost of this product, once unnecessary steps are removed and value is made to flow? This becomes the target cost…

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“started with marketing, which commissioned surveys comparing Wiremold’s products with the offerings of competitors. When an “opportunity” was identified, usually a gap in the…

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“Our initial objective in creating a value stream “map” identifying every action required to design, order, and make a specific product is to sort these actions into three categories: (1) those which actually create value as perceived by the customer; (2) those which create no value but are currently required by the product development, order filling, or production systems (Type…

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