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25 Lean questions
1.
25 Lean Questions to
measure and improve your processes and activities by Tom Curtis
2.
3 levels of
questioning • Use the following questions to check status and improve processes for: • You • Your team • Your organization
3.
Do
you have a standard?
4.
Are your tools
always in the right places to help you do the right things?
5.
How do you
problem solve? Is it effective?
6.
How do you
sustain change?
7.
Are your actions
and activities aligned to your goals?
8.
Can you tell
normal from abnormal, if there is no normal?
9.
Do you kaizen?
10.
Do you have
the courage to stop the process or activity?
11.
Do your andons
highlight the right things?
12.
Do your kanbans signal the
right amounts?
13.
How often do you visit
the gemba?
14.
Do
you try to surface or bury problems?
15.
Do you know
how the value is created?
16.
Do
you audit?
17.
How does my
customer view what I do? Are they willing to pay for it? If not, how do I know it is required?
18.
How much time
do you spend observing?
19.
Do you know
what waste looks like in your process?
20.
Do you know how
you create scrap?
21.
How do you
know you have the right inventory in the right places?
22.
Do you know
what is flow? If so, how does it show?
23.
How much of
your maintenance is preventative?
24.
When was the
last time your process proactively changed for the better?
25.
How
visual is your process?
26.
How do you
know that the jobs or activities are designed right? How do you know they are still right?
27.
Do your employees
know what they are supposed to do? How do they know?
28.
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