Lean Transformation_Rachlin_et al

Lean Transformation
from client projects to our companies
Who Are These People?
2008
2008
Started with 1 project
Started with 1 project
2010
2011
Looked at better coordination with
disciplines outside our company
Started to implement Lean principles
inside the company
2013
2014
Focus on Lean improvements
within our company
Focus on expanding Lean
knowledge in the company
2015
2015
Participated in over 30
Lean projects
Participated in over 20
Lean projects
Continuously searching
for improvement
Continuously searching
for improvement
What’s Up With This Lean Thing?
adding value and reducing waste through
continuous improvement
What’s Up With This Lean Thing?
Definition of Lean:
“To produce the right product at the
right time in the right quantity for the
customer and to produce exactly what
you need and nothing more…”
-TAIICHI OHNO
creator of the Toyota Production System
What’s Up With This Lean Thing?
Lean is…
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Optimizing the whole, not the piece.
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Takes hard work, practice and discipline, especially
when the chips are down.
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Must invest in people, institute a culture of continuous
improvement and become a “learning organization”.
What’s Up With This Lean Thing?
Lean is NOT…
•Lean Construction IS NOT a Set of Tools & Techniques
•Lean Construction IS NOT Quick and Easy
•Lean Construction IS NOT Last Planner System
We Did What?!?
Conditions of Satisfaction:
• Defining success for each
stakeholder
• Aligning work around a common
set of values and goals
• Creating healthy tension between
defined expectations and desired
outcomes
Project Team CoS Example:
Optimize design documentation by
constantly challenging the level of detail
required yet provide an adequate
understanding and minimize Team risk by
having zero formal RFI’s by integrating
designers and constructors to enable
effective communication.
Now How Does That Help?
Conditions of Satisfaction:
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We will never have a “cookie cutter” design, yet
have a standard work approach.
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We will treat every task and responsibility for
ourselves and others as our own to minimize
rework, guarantee on time completion and ensure
reliability with our office.
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We will have quarterly fun team building/ social
gatherings within our firm to promote comradery,
friendship and respect while maintaining our
individuality and unique personalities.
Now How Does That Help?
Conditions of Satisfaction:
• Initiates our Preconstruction Process
• Utilize for Project Pursuit Strategy
We Did What?!?
Study Action Team:
Builds comradery and a Lean learning culture
Now How Does That Help?
Book Club:
Continuous learning is fun!
We Did What?!?
Retrospectives:
We reflect often to ensure good behaviors continue, bad ones stop and new
ideas can be shared.
Well What Do You Know…
Retrospectives:
Keep
Stop
in person = immediate results
Start
We Did What?!?
Good Five Why:
Images of 5 Why Diagram
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? … Got it!
Well What Do You Know…
Good Five Why:
Reason
Countermeasure
We Did What?!?
Plus/ Delta:
things that helped me today – it added value
for me
things we should change that would help you
more – ways we would add more value…
Well What Do You Know…
Plus/ Delta:
Plus/ Delta enables continuous improvement
as a regular practice
We Did What?!?
Pull Planning:
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Produces smooth, predictable work flow
Creates capacity to do additional improvements
Builds responsibility, trust and confidence
Measures and improves Team’s reliability
How About That!
Pull Planning:
“I can’t speak unless I’m
in front of the wall.”
- Brock Breaux
“Staying on target!”
- Elizabeth Allen
Holy Cow, They’re Still Talking?
• Don’t be afraid to try something, ANYTHING!!!
• Lean is a a philosophy, not a set of tools
• Change starts at the top
• Not everyone will buy in right away, and that’s ok
(unless it’s sabotage)
• If you are not continuously improving, you are falling
behind
“You don’t have to be great to start,
but you have to start to be great.”
- Zig Zaglar
Want to Learn More?
Resources:
Surf the Web:
Lean Enterprise Institute – www.lean.org
Lean Construction Institute – www.leanconstruction.org
Start a Book Club:
The Toyota Way by Jeffrey K. Liker
The Machine that Changed the World by James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Ross
The High Velocity Edge by Steven Spear
The Lean Turnaround by Art Byrne