Hand in hand

摘要

Lean and industrial safety are complimentary. One helps the other. The August 2006 Lean Tips article titled "Avoiding Cardboard Logjams" provided an example of a real-world situation. The box folder was operated by "Charlie." Charlie would make boxes fast and then take a break. He would come out of the box-folding area onto the mezzanine and oversee the entire production floor from his perch. This could be tolerable if not for the fact that an over-supply of boxes jammed up the line. More boxes than could be used during the rhythmic flow of production caused problems on the packing line.