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One-Piece-Flow vs. Batch Manufacturing Video

by Ron Pereira on June 8th, 2007

Special thanks to Chris, a reader of the blog, for sending me this excellent video. 

If, for some reason, you are still not convinced one piece flow is superior to batch manufacturing check this video out… it’s Lean Manufacturing Jay Leno style!


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3 comments...What do you think?

  1. Posted by Mark Graban 8th June, 2007 at 2:47 am

    Help us out, I don’t understand the relation to lean and single-piece flow.

    Is it because Morse Code sends one letter at a time?

    Unless the receiver guessed the message from the first part, I don’t know if the analogy holds true here.

    Am I seeing it wrong?

  2. Posted by Six Sigma :Your Resource for Strategic Management - » Six Sigma Blogs Roundup 8th June, 2007 at 7:41 am

    […] Ron of Lean Six Sigma Academy features an interesting video titled “One-Piece-Flow vs. Batch Manufacturing.” […]

  3. Posted by Ron 8th June, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    Hi Mark, it was more of a joke than one piece flow lesson I guess. Perhaps a better analogy is how new technology is not always better than old technology. But, yeah, the one piece flow tie is related the 1 letter at a time versus batching them up via SMS.

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