Theme: Reduce the Waste of Motion – Reduce Treasure Hunts using Visual Control and Work Place Organization .
Good morning. This is your 2nd week of doing the Muda Walk and a short week too. I hope your first week went well. What did you discover?
Your theme this week is to look for the waste of motion. In construction (and most other work) this is commonly called “ treasure hunts.” Mr. Imai* says that moving is not work! Value is not being added while people are walking around. Look for people looking for things; ask why and why and why again. Why is this happening? Why are the tools, equipment, forms, etc. not located closer to the work area? Or where they are needed? Go to shop or a job site at the start or end of a shift and watch for wasted motion. Watch how much time is spent in getting ready or cleaning up? How much time should be spent? Look for ways to reduce this time. Look for trips to the yard, or for people walking around the shop, or even look for trips to a hardware store to buy material. Look at how often the crews run out of small supplies or consumables. Look for tools that are missing or broken. Causing movement to find new ones.
Go watch for Muda. Record your improvements. Implementing visual controls and the 5S’s can eliminate or reduce treasure hunts.
dennis sowards
Quality Support Services, Inc.
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* FYI - Masaaki Imai wrote the books Kaizen and Gemba Kaizen. His birthday was last Wed. Sept. 1st. He turned 80 this year. He is a great Muda Walker and taught me so much when I had the opportunity to shadow him a few years ago. I do the Muda Walk in a Month every September in honor of his birthday.
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