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ley said, “but rather a productivity-improving system. There, it was safety first, then quality and lead time, delivery time, and once those are handled, the cost issues largely drop out. But that’s not how [the US carmakers] saw things.” Their misuse of lean tools and rhetoric in service of short-sighted cost-savings has affected how the term ‘lean’ itself is understood in the US.


For Manley, this was an example of a danger: copying and pasting a lean solution from one situation to another without truly understanding the differences between them—the danger of thinking “one size fits all.” This mistake came up when the Big Three first made efforts toward moving lean from its Toyota roots to their own domestic production, but it’s still an issue now, as Manley and other consultants work to move lean into other kinds of organizations—outside of automotive or even of manufacturing. “Lean is not just an automotive trick.


It’s an operating system that can be ap- plied anywhere,” Manley said. “Unfortu- nately, some lean thinkers can’t expand their horizons to include anything except what they did in the auto industry. They run around and try to copy and paste what they did in automotive to other situations, and it doesn’t work. This is something that Toyota severely warned us not to do. Instead, they taught, learn the tools, understand your value stream and your system, and then adapt lean thinking to the new situation. That’s what I try to teach. “Unfortunately, there are some well- meaning consultants out there who sim- ply try to shoehorn an automotive-based process into whatever kind of place they swoop into. Or they simply teach the tools and don’t really have any systems thinking awareness at all,” Manley said. “‘Two-minute lean,’ my eye.”


Manley noted that of the dozens of businesses the Michi- gan Lean Consortium has worked with in the past three years, only four were in automotive. “As I said, we’re taking lean to the third generation, and a wider world.” ME


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