Creating a Lean Culture, 3rd Edition

46 ◾ Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions

Process Focus and Leader Standard Work in Process Production

So how might leader standard work apply in continuous process operations,

and when might it come before the other elements in Lean management, or

even before a focus on standardizing operators’ routine procedures?

Set aside maintenance-related concerns for this discussion. Maintenance

issues in process industries—apart from the differences in environments in

which maintenance is performed—are not that different from those in other

industrial settings. These issues, such as access to assets, having the needed

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