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My company is stalled because we're looking for keys - 3 steps to order

By Robert Małecki, Lean Consultant·October 20, 2024·4 min read

Last Tuesday at 9:14 AM, I stood on a production floor near Kraków and watched as a worker looked for a size 13 wrench. It took him exactly 6 minutes and 47 seconds because someone else had moved it to the spare parts table. That doesn't sound like a tragedy until you calculate that this person does this 8 times a day across 22 business days a month.