One-Piece Flow | Lean Principles | Ryan Tierney

I found the topic you discussed incredibly interesting. Thank you, folks, for hosting such a fantastic podcast. In my personal life, I've been practicing 2S Lean, and I've discovered that transportation waste is somewhat exceptional in certain ways.

When I transport a batch of items, I end up saving a considerable number of actions required to move these items from one place to another. For an example, It's akin to the concept of transporting wheat, whether by train or car. By leveraging economies of scale, I've realized that I can save more when transporting a larger batch via train.

Naturally, I endeavor to optimize the flow by minimizing the distance between task stages. However, there are occasions when I'm compelled to resort to batch transportation due to the fixed infrastructure in my house.

Thank you once again for the enlightening podcast!

Hi Ryan, a bit off topic. This is not a criticism, it’s a genuine observation. Why is the trend in pod cast videos to have mics and sometimes headsets? On my iPhone with no external mic, the audio is outstanding. So my suggestion would be to find a desk mic so it’s concealed. I hope the suggestion is well received. And PS the content is excellent and one piece flow is very dear to my heart.

One piece flow is a spiritual concept. It’s just like being in the present moment. Not what happened yesterday or last week or tomorrow. One piece flow is NOW! 🎉

This is a fantastic intro to an important lean concept. I just acquired a small manufacturing business where I intend to implement 2 Second Lean. I'm going to share this video with my production manager and factory supervisor as a way to introduce them to the power of lean. Great job guys!

Do a home birth if you have #2. Better environment and pretty much one piece flow 😅

What the name of the door factory please 😊

I think we are all taught that “batch is better“ from childhood. At least in America, history is hammered into us by saying that Henry Ford invented the assembly line. And it’s just assumed from then on that assembly line is faster and better and more productive.

Help me understand. In a place where we have to produce 500 pieces at a time. And the order itself is 500. Nothing can be ship until the 500 pieces are ready. How can we do a one piece flow.

Powerful episode fellas, lots of insight and practical tools packaged in an easy to digest episode. Well done. Inspired me to introduce the concept of one piece flow as the lens with which we use during our morning meetings with our team.

What's your raw material inventory used to make the chair situation look like? Do you stock raw materials because of possible supply issues?

I’m having very hard time seeing efficiency in one-piece flow. I own a perfume company. We have 75 SKUs. We sell 2,000 units per month across 75 SKUs

How is one piece flow more efficient if we cannot use machines? If we were to use one piece flow and make t order then we would not be able to use our labeling machines or filling machines.

We’d have to hand label and hand fill which is 20x slower than machines.

Help me understand how this concept would work in our business?

Paying me weekly is batching! I want to be paid for my work as I complete it.

Love the way you include the backoffice lads in the podcast. You are all going to be very successful if you keep this up!