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Bill Pflanz
asutherland said:
Common sense tells me that common sense is not new. Bill Pflanz
Body of Knowledge for Lean Manufacturing
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Common sense tells me that common sense is not new. Bill Pflanz
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asutherland
Come, come now.... you have never been told or informed of something you never heard before and said to yourself, hummm, thats common sense.
If so, how could it be common.... you didn't know it?
If so, how could it be common.... you didn't know it?
Wes Bucey
Prophet of Profit
Well, let's see:asutherland said:Come, come now.... you have never been told or informed of something you never heard before and said to yourself, hummm, thats common sense.
If so, how could it be common.... you didn't know it?
About one billion (thousand million) people speak Manadarin or Cantonese. I don't speak it or write it. Does that automatically remove it from the realm of "common?"
When you are a child and go into deep water for the first time and discover you can't breathe underwater, does it cease to be common sense because you didn't know that before you made the discovery and later found ALMOST everyone else already knew that? As you gained more and more experience and understood how breathing works, you may have said, "Of course! It's just common sense that if there is no air, you can't breathe." Then, if you were smart, you figured out that if you could bring some air underwater with you, you could breathe and stay under longer. Would that have been common sense or uncommon reasoning power? How much intelligence does it take to make the leap in logic from holding one's breath to remain underwater to inventing a way to get an air supply to your lungs while underwater (hollow reeds? overturned pots and jars to trap air? flexible hoses? pressurized air tanks? entire underwater domes?)
If we make that leap of logic, are we isolated geniuses or just folks reinventing something others have known for years simply because we weren't on the information track. How much is common sense, how much is uncommon?
Ever hit your finger with a hammer? Did it hurt? Did you work out a way to avoid hitting your finger on a regular basis? Were you a genius or just using common sense to keep from repeating an unhappy experience?
Maybe this all belongs under the Lean gone wrong thread . . .
It seems like in all the efforts to add new buzzwords to old techniques we forget the poor quality practitioners out there who have to do this stuff, and worse, must justify their existance on a daily basis to their employers.
It seems like in all the efforts to add new buzzwords to old techniques we forget the poor quality practitioners out there who have to do this stuff, and worse, must justify their existance on a daily basis to their employers.
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plato1
The BOK is established?? ASQ 1 or 2 projects with a Champion with evidence of $$ savings for BB or GB. New to this, however I am afraid of a loss of interest after I invest time and ed monies for the training.
Plato1
The more I know the more I realize I don't know.
Plato1
The more I know the more I realize I don't know.
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palmer
This is exactly what my current company was doing before I started here. Tough clean up jobs were left to pile up to the point of HAVING to stop to clean it. Or it was given out as work as punishment. This cleaning could take a couple of shifts to complete.
Now that I have started "5S" this chore becomes part of a daily or weekly or monthly cleaning depending on the chore and whether the mechinery needs to be idle to perform the cleaning. This cleaning takes no longer than 30 minutes and in most cases 15 minutes or less.
What you want to call it is not the means. How it is achieved to improve moral and appearance is the means.
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ashwaniraina82
