Incremental: The Continuous Improvement Podcast

Devin Bodony and Uriel Eisen•podcasters.spotify.com

"Incremental: The Continuous Improvement Podcast" is a weekly show where business owners share their journey implementing continuous improvement. Explore Lean Mfg, TPS, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, JIT, Kanban, and more. Gain inspiration, practical advice and join the hosts on their journey of discovery and learning. Experience the benefits of continuous improvement and lean transformation for your business.

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Episodes

Episode 12. Trials and Tribulations in process updates

Please follow us on Instagram and share your improvements and tag us.www.instagram.com/incrementalci In this podcast we discuss concepts from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System, and general business management to improve our businesses. Thanks for listening! Please drop us a note with any and all feedback! If you have parts you need machined, reach out to Devin@lichenprecision.com and follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/lichen_mfg If you need CNCed Buckles, check out www.austerem...

Mar 24, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 12

Episode 11. Push, Pull, and Flow

In this episode Uriel and Devin explain the difference between push, pull, and flow manufacturing. This is a key aspect of the Toyota Production System and lean and is a big focus and goal of much of our improvement activities. Other topics in this episode: - Workholding standardization and how to hold op 2 - Going away for a few days highlighted some room for improvement on internal communication, documentation, and business management - Reducing batch size during the day but still allowing for...

Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 11

Episode 10. Paint mixers, magnets, torque wrenches, and more

This week Devin and Uriel discuss some improvements from around the shop with some discussion of what issues came up that led to the improvements as well as some of the thinking behind the improvements implemented. Please follow us on Instagram and share your improvements and tag us.www.instagram.com/incrementalci In this podcast we discuss concepts from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System, and general business management to improve our businesses. Thanks for listening! Please drop ...

Mar 15, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 10

Episode 9. Balance, Balance, Balance

Please follow us on Instagram and share your improvements and tag us. www.instagram.com/incrementalci This week Devin and Uriel have a wide ranging discussion about a range of topics that relate to lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System, and continuous improvement. Some of the topics include: - Balancing equipment utilization vs operator utilization vs overall shop throughput. - Profit sharing and exploring other ways of putting money where your mouth is to share success with employ...

Mar 09, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 9

Episode 8. Standardized setups and Meta improvements

This week we talk about: - Listener question - we discuss how we've been improving the podcast process inline with Lean concepts - Single loop vs Double loop learning and building a learning organization - How to think through standardizing setups and workholding to account for a wide variety of work scenarios. - An update on approaching an assembly station redesign and shifting the focus from designing the station to designing experiments for quick and cheap learning. - Devin and Uriel then go ...

Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 8

Episode 7. Standardized tooling, what should we build in house, and linked processes failure

This week Devin and Uriel talk through some listener questions, talk production leveling, how to prioritize tasks, and what happens when linked processes fail. Standardized tooling and redundant tooling can be an essential part of gaining efficiency. It is interesting to think about what can be standardized but also how to standardize deviation from standard... Is that possible? Kanban can be a very useful tool for making sure that tools stay in stock. As buffers get reduced, downtime becomes mo...

Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Episode 6. Production Levelling, just when you thought you knew what lean was, they switch it all up on you

We have an Instagram! Go give us a follow @incrementalci and see all types of improvements from across the web! On this episode Devin Bodony and Uriel Eisen talk about Production Leveling and the three M's of the Toyota Production System. Muda, Mura, and Muri. There are many examples where increasing inventory can help level production which can be hugely valuable. Uneven production leads to huge waste so it is critical to figure out how to level production. While Toyota uses temp workers to dea...

Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode 5. Single piece flow dishes? And rationalizing production

This week we cover: Rationalizing production, TPS Engineering, Cognitive load research, Single piece flow. Our weekly improvements, and a discussion of developing software vs buying off the shelf. Continuous improvement is not unique to lean. It is something we all do, but lean and TPS do bring a systemized and scientific approach to improvements that is very helpful. TPS is not about reducing waste. It is about solving your problems in a rational and scientific manner. So what is meant by ratio...

Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4. Is it Automation VS People, or Automation And People?

Please share ideas for a hashtag for folks following this podcast. We'd love to get a community going around this so we can all share these ideas. The idea behind this podcast is to let people follow along as we wrestle with the ideas of TPS, Lean manufacturing, and Continuous improvement. We talk about how to think through automation. Is it truly automation vs. people? Probably not. So far, we've focused on keeping automation fairly inexpensive, but also we try to keep our automation very flexi...

Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3. Is your non value added time in your production processes?

We apologize about the sound in this episode. We will hopefully improve continuously ;) We discuss an ROI calculator we built and discover how much the spreadsheet model misses yet still how usefull it is. We plug a few improvments into this model and discuss what it shows. Do you want to access this continuous improvment ROI calculator. Why is continuous improvment not tought in schools? A big caviate to this is that you need product market fit. How to shave non-value-add activity from job shop...

Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Quality of Life Rant

Uriel and Devin discuss the relative merits of closely linked vs decoupled dependent processes, go over a new tool Uriel made to calculate how quickly a process improvement pays for itself, and Uriel rants on how calling improvements "Quality of life improvements", completely misses the point.

Jan 24, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1. Introductions

Uriel and Devin give some brief background on their businesses and then jump right into some process improvements in the shop!

Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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