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Tcoat · 12-05-2019, 10:06 PM

Just spent two days (22 hours) doing a Lean Workshop on our scrap loading at work. For those that don't know Lean is the "let's change the name so we don't get sued" version of the Toyota Production System for eliminating waste (time, scrape, costs, etc). This system works well in Japan since it is very tied to their culture but when Americans and Germans get their hands on it it turns into a nightmare really fast!
We had 12 people from plants all across North America there to "help" us on the project.
I had already pulled all this together two years ago but since the ROI on it was two years not the one year that corporate wants I could not get the capital. Started off the day yesterday presenting my proposal and giving the team all the data I had amassed. They immediately looked at it and deemed the plan no good and the data questionable so we spent the next 11 hours gathering up all the info again. Today they spent all day putting together recommendations and a proposal to help with reducing the time spent handling the waste (we fill two transport trailers full of cast iron chips a day) and submitted it to me. I totally agreed with every word they said since it was IDENTICAL to my original proposal right down to the last detail. So, all in all I just spent two days getting a team of 12 people to redo what I had done and claim it was their plan. I AM NOT USED TO THAT HAPPENING!

On the plus side the high up corporate crowd loves thee workshops so I will probably get automatic approval for my project even if outside the ROI envelope (which is actually why I pitched it as a workshop in the first place).

12-05-2019, 10:06 PM	#63790
Tcoat Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Drives: 2020 Hakone Location: London, Ont Posts: 69,841 Thanks: 61,656 Thanked 108,295 Times in 46,456 Posts Mentioned: 2499 Post(s) Tagged: 50 Thread(s)	Just spent two days (22 hours) doing a Lean Workshop on our scrap loading at work. For those that don't know Lean is the "let's change the name so we don't get sued" version of the Toyota Production System for eliminating waste (time, scrape, costs, etc). This system works well in Japan since it is very tied to their culture but when Americans and Germans get their hands on it it turns into a nightmare really fast! We had 12 people from plants all across North America there to "help" us on the project. I had already pulled all this together two years ago but since the ROI on it was two years not the one year that corporate wants I could not get the capital. Started off the day yesterday presenting my proposal and giving the team all the data I had amassed. They immediately looked at it and deemed the plan no good and the data questionable so we spent the next 11 hours gathering up all the info again. Today they spent all day putting together recommendations and a proposal to help with reducing the time spent handling the waste (we fill two transport trailers full of cast iron chips a day) and submitted it to me. I totally agreed with every word they said since it was IDENTICAL to my original proposal right down to the last detail. So, all in all I just spent two days getting a team of 12 people to redo what I had done and claim it was their plan. I AM NOT USED TO THAT HAPPENING! On the plus side the high up corporate crowd loves thee workshops so I will probably get automatic approval for my project even if outside the ROI envelope (which is actually why I pitched it as a workshop in the first place). __________________ Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar, because Racecar.