"The more deeply leaders, managers and associates understand the principles of operational excellence and the more perfectly systems are aligned to reinforce ideal behavior, the greater the probability of creating a sustainable culture of excellence where achieving ideal results is the norm rather than the aspiration."
- Shigeo Shingo

"The primary role of managers must shift from firefighting to designing, aligning and improving systems."

- Shigeo Shingo

Shingo Principle of the Month: Seek Perfection

"The passionate pursuit of perfection--even when it is fundamentally impossible to achieve--brings out the best in every human being."
- Shigeo Shingo

Came across a great thought about perfection from the Shingo Institute:

"Perfection is an aspiration not likely to be achieved but the pursuit of which creates a mindset and culture of continuous improvement. The realization of what is possible is only limited by the paradigms through which we see and understand the world."

Our simulations today brought our change over time down to 4 minutes 1 second. We started at 29 minutes. The team accomplished this by simply preparing the items that were needed for the next run. The change will save approximately 8 hours per month!

Not bad for TGBs first CI Event. Nice work by Pieter Vervloessem, Matthisas Marivoet, Johan Van Calster, Anja Van Hoorebeeck, and Dominica Moons.

Today we changed the dwell time on TGB's kitting line and we able to save a little over 1 second per kit. Nice experimenting by the team to change the setting from 150 down to 35.

After observing and categorizing a 29+ minute change over process we realized that at least 14 minutes of it can be do while the previous job is still running. Tomorrow we start experimenting & simulating! I think we can get this below 10 minutes!

Pieter V. did a nice job of facilitating!