Made-to-Order Lean

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Management Auditing: Standardized Work for Managers

Managers must continuously verify a business and its processes. This oversight involves not only shopfloor audits, but also visiting the supporting departments. Naturally, it is much easier to understand the status and identify opportunities if good visual management is in place (see chapter 1), but too much visual management can sometimes create new problems. At certain management levels, specifically those with a large scope of responsibility, the task of continuous visual checking for areas that should be audited seems overwhelming. This is particularly true when an organization is in the process of going lean. But this surface perception of an increased auditing workload, accompanied ...