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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Corporate Megathread: Within cells interlinked
 
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zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
^^^^^
ISO is supposed to be best in class industry standards. 6s is just a problem solving scheme.

HerrMorden posted:

At Halliburton, we replaced 6S with "Kaizen", which from what I could tell from the huge posters they plastered everywhere, it is basically the same thing but more "kawaii". What this amounted to was that for 2 months, we were pulled out of our work area and had to sit down with this super bubbly Korean dude and listen to him give Powerpoint presentations on how we could humanize the coefficiency variables and create more output or something.

Mind, every hour we spent trying to "maximize efficiency" was an hour that we weren't getting circuit boards ready for implementation into multimillion dollar sensors, tools, etc. Management decided that the best way to "maximize" was to have us stop in the middle of the day and clean our work area....which was something we did at the end of the day, anyway. A clean work area is a productive work area!

They then decided to humanize the workspace by giving everyone a plant for their work area. This was after they decided to cut the Christmas party, the Thanksgiving lunch, our bonuses, and there were rumors of layoffs. Management loved the threat of layoffs, using them as a goad to get us to work harder. We actually exceeded our numbers, so they laid off 30% of the workforce.

Still, working for them was way better than working at a hotel.
I love how management tries to implement every single bullet point of Toyota Manufacturing ie kaizen, lean, even though some of it is ridiculously Japanese. Business culture is different in the US for better or worse. Some of the supply chain or manufacturing stuff from TM? Sure, ok, makes sense. Plants and strict schedules or whatever? Seriously?

Best story I have about TM, the delivery date for a big refurbed piece of equipment is pushed back to the day before manufacturing was scheduled to go down for maintenance. Engineer responsible for the project sarcastically said it was all according to plan and following the lean idea of just-in-time delivery. Even the department head who was all gung-ho lean this and kaizen that laughed.

e. Its hard to take kaizen seriously when every engineer breaks into a b-movie japanese accent whenever talking about it if management isn't around.

zedprime fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Apr 21, 2010

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zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Internetjack posted:

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You got a clear goal, the resources to meet it, a personally involved but not overbearing superior, and recognition for achieving the goal. I think its safe to say everyone in this thread wishes they were you.

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