The Filth and Disgusting Health Behaviors at Wrigley Field TAGS: 5S | baseball | big league stew | blitz | blog | chicago cubs | cleaning | concessions | consulting | disdain | disgusting | documentation | espn | everywhere | facilities | fan | feces | field | filth | filthy | five whys | gross | hands | health | indiana | inspector | issues | lean | maintenance | major league baseball | management | opening day | operating | operations | playbook | procedures | process | root cause analysis | set in order | shine | sort | sports | stadium | standardize | standards | strategy | sun-times | sustain | tpm | training | ufe | ufe.com | upkeep | urine | visual | wash | with leather | wrigley | yahoo sports I came across this little op-ed piece on ESPN.com’s Playbook about Wrigley Field being the grossest sports stadium in the four major North American sports leagues, sharing a little bit …Continue reading →

Lean is Safety TAGS: 5S | accident | acknowledge | address | anomaly | behavior | businessdictionary.com | continuous improvement | danger | environment | ergonomics | excess | harm | identify | inventory | leak | lean | lean blitz consulting | loss | motion | muda | mura | muri | overproduction | personnel | property | risk | safety | set in order | shine | slippery when wet | sort | standardization | standardize | straighten | strain | sustain | threat | transportation | unsafe | wastes | water | work First, let’s understand the concept of safety. Safety is defined as “relative freedom from danger, risk, or threat of harm, injury, or loss to personnel and/or property, whether caused deliberately or by accident” as per BusinessDictionary.com. So being in a safe situation …Continue reading →

Lean Tools: What Does Sort Look Like at a Stadium Office? TAGS: 5S | blitz | broken | computers | discard | discipline | documentation | equipment | inventory | lean | literature | office | operations | organize | peripherals | process | raw materials | recycling | schedules | set in order | shelves | shine | six sigma | sort | sports | stadium | standardize | supplies | sustain | tools (See previous installments about 5S here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. This is a continuation of deeper dives into the lean tools.) Remember, the definition of sort is …Continue reading →

Lean Tools: 5S, Sustain, and Crowning a Champion TAGS: 5S | belt | blitz | champion | entertainment | heavyweight | john cena | lean | operations | pride | process | self-discipline | set in order | shine | six sigma | sort | staged | standardize | straighten | sustain | toy | train | trophy | visual factory | world | wrestling | wwe (The first four sections about 5S with links are Sort, Set In Order, Shine, and Standardize.) WWE heavyweight wrestling champions aren’t crowned because they beat one opponent. They earn the …Continue reading →

Lean Tools: 5S, Standardize, and the Marching Hundred TAGS: 5S | audits | band | blitz | cell | cleanliness | colors | factory | finished goods | floor | hundred | images | indiana | inspections | lean | lock step | marching | operations | operator | organization | processes | safety | set in order | shapes | shine | signs | six sigma | sort | sports | standardize | straighten | sustain | university | user | visual We’ve covered the first three steps of 5S – sort (also here), set-in-order, and shine. The good news? Those three steps are everything you need to overhaul a work cell …Continue reading →

Lean Tools: 5S and How Sort is Half the Battle TAGS: 1980's | 5S | accounting | asset tags | ballrooms | blitz | capital equipment | categories | catwalk | concourse | desks | finished goods | flexibility | frequency | g.i. joe | kitchen | knowing is half the battle | lean | liquid | maintenance | necessary | not necessary | office | operations | point of use storage | processes | raw materials | real american hero | recycle | safety | salvage | separate | set in order | shine | six sigma | sort | sports | stadium | standardize | suites | sustain | tag | tagging Remember those G.I. Joe cartoons from the 80′s where at the end of each episode one of the Joes would teach us a life lesson (about nutrition, honesty, school, etc.)? …Continue reading →

Lean Tools: 5S Will Revolutionize Your Workspace (Or Your Money Back) TAGS: 5S | blitz | fixtures | lean | map | organizations | processes | safety | scan | set in order | shine | sort | sports | standardize | steady state | straighten | sustain | tools (This is the first in a series of posts about the lean tools.) So now we know about the lean wastes and how they are the enemy of productivity and …Continue reading →

Oh No! Wastes! Now What Do I Do?: The Lean Tools Primer TAGS: anomalies | batching | beer can | beer cart | blitz | changeover | disk defragmenter | error-proofing | fire extinguisher | gatorade | golf | lean | operations | point of use storage | poka-yoke | process map | processes | real-time | sandwiches | set in order | setup reduction | shadowboard | shine | sidekick | signs | smed | sort | sports | standardize | straighten | superhero | supermarket | sustain | tpm | value stream management | virus scan | visual factory | waste | work instruction All this time we’ve talked about the lean wastes. The problems. The money we’re throwing away. The time we’ve spent poorly. And now we’ve gone out and identified them. Excess motion. …Continue reading →