Pull!
Woodworking Canada: Article by Sepp Gmeiner
The term Pull System is often used in Lean manufacturing. In our Lean training courses, we have used a game as a metaphor, trying to push a rope into a hole in a box and out on the other side. Quite a difficult and a slow task. The participants feel almost tricked when, as an alternative, we let them pull the rope through the box.
How do we translate this game into the real world of our woodworking plant?