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XLostinohiox t1_jclnqpv wrote

Reply to comment by HylianSW in Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance. by Wagamaga

As a process engineer who works a lot in continuous improvement, that is not a function of lean. The principals of lean are; doing more with les, doing things in a structured manner to increase performance and figuring out the optimized process to make the best use of the working time. When setting standards in lean manufacturing you do time studies and you then pick the most repetitive time as the standard. If you instead give in to management and allow the standard to be set as the best time the fastest employee ever achieved you have not complied with the principals of lean and are just being a pawn in the age old management style of work em till they are dead.

When doing improvement events, my company's standard for selecting a process is 1. What is the safest 2. What is the best quality 3. What is the most stable process. Time optimization come in the order of operations and reducing wasted movement.

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darktourist92 t1_jclqpj3 wrote

Exactly this. Lean is not a cost-saving methodology, it’s about producing the most efficient results.

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Ishidan01 t1_jcn3ebc wrote

>doing more with les

And this is why Les is overworked and stressed out.

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Ribbys t1_jclq2hs wrote

I was in employee health in healthcare in Canada, and LEAN was used to reduce staffing levels. Now we have worker shortage and burnout problem. Robots are laughing at this because they don't have to deal with psychological demands.

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XLostinohiox t1_jclssmx wrote

My point was, if the business had the goal of reducing staffing levels, then they did not practice lean, they just told you they did. Lean is a principal that grows a business. If you are implementing lean, you are never firing people. You make people more efficient at their jobs so you can get more business. Then you hire more people.

Your company lied to you and you fell for it. And now you are beating up on their straw man.

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Ribbys t1_jcmgnl9 wrote

Ok I see. Yes I live in a corrupt place run by fascists mostly.

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Ishidan01 t1_jcn3oqw wrote

You wait, robots.

Your manual says change filter A every 500 hours, change tubing B every 1000 hours, replace pump motor C every 10,000 hours?

Nah. Do more with less, we can't afford the downtime to be changing filters.

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BestInference t1_jco0ldk wrote

You probably right but I never got to work in anyplace with something approaching sanity. So I'm sayin my peace not to disagree with you just frustration really. The general trend whether physical labor or not has always been the lazy people get the same pay and the light work and anyone dumb enough not to be lazy got the hard work and writeups for not meeting impossible deadlines set on averages not accounting for the hard work. Definitely not sayin you're wrong just sayin good ideas seem to get real lost in translation a lot by people who don't have to work all that hard in practice, and they conveniently never get the consequences. Anyone can ever fix that damn problem I say vote them for president.

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