Notes
Short notes from the workbench.
New tools, lessons from the field, the occasional teardown. One post every weekday.
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16 May 2026
The 22-minute changeover that takes 95
A worked example of SMED on a real bottling line, and the cadence trap that almost killed the savings before they landed.
#smed#changeover#case-study -
15 May 2026
Why 5S dies in month two — and the single rule that keeps it alive
Every 5S programme I've inherited died at the same point for the same reason. The fix is a one-page rule on the noticeboard.
#5s#standards#cadence -
14 May 2026
Finding your losses: the 5-box framework that beats a Pareto chart
A 15-minute exercise that gets you closer to the real number than a week of analytics — and a working tool that fixes it.
#losses#diagnostics#method