Lean That Lasts

Every plant that tried Lean has the layers to prove it: faded tape, a half-empty shadow board, a binder that counted events and never counted a late order. The tools worked. The program faded, for four reasons, and each one was a choice. It was aimed at everything, run in bursts, owned by someone who left, and counted in activity.

Lean That Lasts reverses all four. Aim the program with 80/20, so the first gain lands where the money and the hard work meet. Run it every day, with the kaizen week as a booster. Let the line own it, with team leaders and a coach who owns no result. Count it in results: lead time, on time and complete, first-pass yield, and dollars the chief financial officer signs.

Bill Canady proves every tool on one plant, followed from the first morning to the thousandth day, with the numbers shown and the morning after the coach left. The companion to The 80/20 Institute's Lean masterclass, with forty worksheets in Lean That Lasts · The Field Guide.