Before You Can See Waste

Before you can see waste,

you have to be able to see the factory floor.

You have to be able to visualize your value stream

as a series of discrete sub-steps.

Then benchmark each one to identify your single bottleneck –

Your single constraint holding you back.

Formulate one or more strategies for breaking that constraint

which you quickly test through small, fast, and additive experiments.

Rinse and repeat.