Jeromy Markwort is the Lean Coach at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Jeromy will discuss; Vertical Integration for Efficiency, Reduced costs and Staff Development or in Lean terms how vertical integration drives the need for Standardized Work and how Standard Work enables improvement   --- For more perspectives on Lean in Agriculture visit www.agxconference.com

1. Jeromy Markwort
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY
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2. How vertical integration drives the need for
Standardized Work and enables improvement
JEROMY MARKWORT – LEAN COACH, PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL
LABORATORY
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AGx Three Rivers Convention Center Kennewick, WA
December 1st 2014
jeromy@pnnl.gov
@jmarkwort
PNNL-SA-106947

3. Background
Vertical integration example
Challenges
Shift from Manage By Objectives to Manage By Means with focus on
staff development
Understand “OK” vs. “Not OK”
Grasp the situation
Standardize
Coach staff to ID opportunities for improvement
PDCA for the win
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Outline

4. The vertically integrated apple pie
Golden Delicious apples
No worms
Ripe
Un-blemished
Clean
Firm
Consistent size/taste
How do we think from our customers’ needs
backward, not from our assets forward?
–Steve Bell

5. What are the challenges?

6. Making sure what we make is
what they want
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7. Rework
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Making sure what we make is
what they want

8. We must first have a shared
understanding of "OK," "Not
OK"
UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTION

9. Where are we today?
UNDERSTAND THE GAP

10. You can't get there from here…
HOW DO WE GET THROUGH UNCERTAINTY TO OUR GOAL?

11. Standardize our processes in
order to deliver consistent
results

12. Standard Work
Vs.
Documentation
DATA AND FACTS
Not scrapbooking
for the business!

13. Standardized Work as the
"current best known way to do
the work”
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14. Once our process has been
stabilized/standardized, now
look to improve

15. What are the obstacles?
What are the opportunities for
improvement?
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16. Manage By Objectives
to
Manage By Means

17. Experimentation: Shewhart Cycle
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Title
Plan
Do
Check Adjust
A3 thinking

18. Books
Lean Thinking, Womack and Jones
Toyota Kata, Rother
The Lean Startup, Ries
2 Second Lean, Akers
Videos
Meals Per Hour, Toyota helps a food bank improve efficiency
Lean is simple, Paul Akers
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Resources