Maintenance and Reliability
Keeping the equipment running so the flow doesn't stop - the practices that turn breakdowns from default into exception.
222 terms from the shop floor - TPS foundations, pull and flow, visual management, and every tool, metric, and ritual that makes a lean operation actually run.
The original pillars from the Toyota Production System - the philosophy, principles, and house diagram that everything else in lean rests on.
Every form of muda, named and defined. If you can see them, you can remove them - and most of what looks like work isn't.
The signals, signs, and boards that make the state of the operation legible at a glance - to anyone walking the floor.
The mechanics of moving material and work through an operation - triggered by downstream demand, not upstream forecasts.
The working kit - mapping techniques, problem-solving frameworks, and structured methods that turn observation into improvement.
Catching the defect where it's made - instead of inspecting it at the end. The mechanisms that build quality into the process itself.
Keeping the equipment running so the flow doesn't stop - the practices that turn breakdowns from default into exception.
The habits, rituals, and behaviors that turn lean from a project into an operating system - practiced every shift, by everyone.
How lean operations develop the operators, team leaders, and managers who make the system work - and the leadership behaviors that sustain it.
The numbers that tell you whether lean is actually working - operational, financial, and behavioral indicators that resist gaming.