28 ◾ Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions
reasserting themselves in areas newly converted to Lean layouts—again,
examples you want to avoid:
◾ Build up some inventory.
◾ Allow longer or extra breaks.
◾ Send people off a balanced line to chase parts or do rework.
◾ Start a task early, even if all the information is not available from the
upstream department.
◾ Work around the problem today and let tomorrow take care of itself.
◾ Leave improvement to the “experts” rather than wasting time on
employee suggestions.
◾ Do not bother with the tracking charts—we never actually do anything
about recurring problems anyway.
Make Sure You Don’t Slip Back into These Old Habits
To sum it up, you do not need a different management syst ...