Fundamental Mistakes in 5S: Part 3
3. Not deciding time for action on Red Tag “Removing a Red Tag is more important than putting a Red Tag.” Usually the top management that starts 5S activity is not aware that the during the 1s (Seiri) activity, they would have to take timely decision on many items (especially if you are doing 5S…
Fundamental Mistakes in 5S: Part 2
2. Not putting Red Tag and doing 1S activity. “It is like entering a hall without a ticket.” Many times organizations are in hurry to do 5S (I don’t know why?). So they just identify iterms that are not required in a perticular area and put it in Red Zone (separate area) without putting a…
Fundamental Mistakes in 5S – Part 1
1. Not doing why-why analysis after 1S activity “Putting “Red Tag” and keeping the items in Red Zone is not enough” In a large machine manufacturing company when we did Red Tag campaign, we found more than 2178 tags. But we just did not stop at putting those Red Tag items in Red Tag area…
The Ambulance Syndrome in Problem Solving
Ambulances are doing great service to the humanity by saving lives of millions around the world in case of emergency. There was a pit adjacent to a busy road, A person unwawre about it, accidently fell into it. A group of pedestrians walking by helped him. Someone pulled him out of the pit. They called…
3 Fundamentals of Problem Solving
1. Brainstorming vs Blame-Storming. The most important thing in problem solving is that, there is no Finger Pointing. We have to fix Process not People. As Dr. Deming said 85% problems requires action on system / process. In my study tour to Japan I learned to ask “Why” rather than “Who” when we have to…