Incremental:The Continuous Improvement Podcast

In this episode Uriel and Devin talk about how to focus improvement efforts. This goes a beyond TPS and lean and gets into Critical Chain Theory (TOC). Other topics in this episode: - Production leveling across people and processes not just total load. - Block manufacturing as described by Shigeo Shingo. Books Mentioned: Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Please follow us on Instagram and share you...

Please follow us on Instagram and share your improvements and tag us.www.instagram.com/incrementalci In this podcast we discuss concepts from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System, and general business management to improve our businesses. Thanks for listening! Please drop us a note with any and all feedback! If you have parts you need machined, reach out to Devin@lichenprecision.com an...

In this episode Uriel and Devin explain the difference between push, pull, and flow manufacturing. This is a key aspect of the Toyota Production System and lean and is a big focus and goal of much of our improvement activities. Other topics in this episode: - Workholding standardization and how to hold op 2 - Going away for a few days highlighted some room for improvement on internal communication...

This week Devin and Uriel discuss some improvements from around the shop with some discussion of what issues came up that led to the improvements as well as some of the thinking behind the improvements implemented.    Please follow us on Instagram and share your improvements and tag us.www.instagram.com/incrementalci    In this podcast we discuss concepts from Lean Manufacturin...

Please follow us on Instagram and share your improvements and tag us. www.instagram.com/incrementalci  This week Devin and Uriel have a wide ranging discussion about a range of topics that relate to lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System, and continuous improvement. Some of the topics include:  - Balancing equipment utilization vs operator utilization vs overall shop through...

This week we talk about:   - Listener question - we discuss how we've been improving the podcast process inline with Lean concepts  - Single loop vs Double loop learning and building a learning organization  - How to think through standardizing setups and workholding to account for a wide variety of work scenarios.  - An update on approaching an assembly station redesign and sh...

This week Devin and Uriel talk through some listener questions, talk production leveling, how to prioritize tasks, and what happens when linked processes fail. Standardized tooling and redundant tooling can be an essential part of gaining efficiency. It is interesting to think about what can be standardized but also how to standardize deviation from standard... Is that possible? Kanban can be a ve...

We have an Instagram! Go give us a follow @incrementalci and see all types of improvements from across the web! On this episode Devin Bodony and Uriel Eisen talk about Production Leveling and the three M's of the Toyota Production System.  Muda, Mura, and Muri. There are many examples where increasing inventory can help level production which can be hugely valuable. Uneven production leads to...

This week we cover: Rationalizing production, TPS Engineering, Cognitive load research, Single piece flow. Our weekly improvements,  and a discussion of developing software vs buying off the shelf.   Continuous improvement is not unique to lean. It is something we all do, but lean and TPS do bring a systemized and scientific approach to improvements that is very helpful. TPS is not about...

Please share ideas for a hashtag for folks following this podcast. We'd love to get a community going around this so we can all share these ideas.    The idea behind this podcast is to let people follow along as we wrestle with the ideas of TPS, Lean manufacturing, and Continuous improvement.   We talk about how to think through automation. Is it truly automation vs. people? Pr...

We apologize about the sound in this episode. We will hopefully improve continuously ;)   We discuss an ROI calculator we built and discover how much the spreadsheet model misses yet still how usefull it is. We plug a few improvments into this model and discuss what it shows. Do you want to access this continuous improvment ROI calculator. Why is continuous improvment not tought in schools? A...

Uriel and Devin discuss the relative merits of closely linked vs decoupled dependent processes, go over a new tool Uriel made to calculate how quickly a process improvement pays for itself, and Uriel rants on how calling improvements "Quality of life improvements", completely misses the point.  

Uriel and Devin give some brief background on their businesses and then jump right into some process improvements in the shop!