Re:The Toyota Way
by throw0101a on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:23PM
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Deming was about quality control, which dovetails into lean: you can only do the latter if you know your parts bin is good, and that you can trust your supplier/s to deliver.
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In that sense, lean is essentially the same solution as reducing buffer size to increase network throughout.
Excess capacity pooling decreases stopages but prevents signalling of problems back through the chain.