Since my April 19th post I've only spent a day or so at Genoa, poring over heaps of data and starting to actually do some analysis and put together tables grouping information. That was before a 10 day vacation trip to Alberta far from the environment of sea and ships.
Going back a few weeks, we met with all employees and gave a brief outline of where we wanted to go and what they could expect. At the time, Leonard asked everyone to suggest a name for our lean undertaking and was flooded with responses and suggestions, everything from........sorry, no suggestions..no surprise though, what do you name something you can't really visualize.
Leave it to creative Leonard though, he put some serious thought into the matter and revisited one of the lean foundations, that in my opinion, encompasses all lean principles and objectives, which is 5S. No detail on 5S here, google it. But seriously, you can link every lean tool and basic principle to one of the 5 "esses".
Being even more creative and adding some intrigue we have decided to use the Japanese "esses" and have so chosen our project name to be Genoa Seiri (pronounced say-ree). Seiri's english equivalent is Tidiness or Proper arrangement. The others S's are: Seiton (Orderly), Seiso (Clean), Seiketsu (Standardize), and Shitsuke (Self-Discipline).
Choosing Seiri represents something even more significant though. Genoa Seiri is year one of Genoa's long term commitment to lean with each of the 5 S's representing another year and level of commitment in the pursuit of lean.
Next post we'll share some results of our data analysis.
Ken Hogan
Lean Guy at Genoa
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