Why Taiwan plants lose hours between shifts
Scheduled overlap is not the same as designed overlap. A walk through cells that treat the gap as weather.
Journal
Notes that still work with gloves on.
Short pieces from studio rooms and plant walks. They are not a newsletter funnel.
Kanban is not the first move
Cards can hide an unowned bottleneck. Sequence the diagnosis before you print the cards.
Reading a value stream without the poster
If the map cannot survive a walk without a legend, it is decoration.
When standard work becomes theatre
Laminated sheets that nobody updates after the audit leave are not standards. They are props.
The quiet cost of unowned exceptions
Piles grow in the hour when the named person is in a meeting that has no deputy.