66 ◾ Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions
Supervisors
Supervisors’ standard work accounts for about half of their time. Mostof
the items in supervisors’ standard work repeat daily or weekly. They
involve:
◾ Getting the shift started and staffed appropriately
◾ Reviewing yesterday’s production tracking documents to understand
and take any further required actions to follow up misses or other
issues
◾ Leading the daily accountability meeting for their area, and attending
the daily accountability meeting for their department or manager value
stream manager’s area
◾ Reviewing team leaders’ task assignments due that day and making new
assignments
◾ Working on or supporting process improvement task assignments
Periodic tasks ...