Hosted by Mark DeLuzio · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 85 episodes
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The Lean 911 Podcast is where you'll have a voice directly from the gemba. Host, Mark DeLuzio, President and CEO of Lean Horizons Consulting and the principal architect of the Danaher Business System, relies on his three decades of lean successes as well as his failures to answer your most challenging questions regarding your lean transformation.
Mark DeLuzio hosts Lean 911, a business show with 85 episodes published.
A CNC machine crashed on the shop floor. Nathan Corliss walked out as a young supervisor, angry and ready to blame the operator. What happened next became one of the most important leadership lessons of his career. Mark
This is an unedited replay of a previous Lean 911 episode, originally published on January 13, 2023. We're bringing it back because the issue still causes Lean transformations to stall, drift, or flatline. One of the mos
In this episode, we dive into the rise, dominance, and controversy surrounding Six Sigma — the corporate improvement system that promised near-perfect quality and became a management obsession across America. From Motoro
Manufacturing Engineers pride themselves on precision, but what if the biggest waste is hiding in plain sight—inside the equipment itself? In this episode, we challenge the status quo: excess feeds, slow speeds, and bloa
In this powerful episode of Lean 911, Mark DeLuzio sits down with former Air Force fighter pilot and Danaher sales leader Randy Fitzhugh to unpack the real science behind value selling and why most organizations get it w
Lean management teaches that standards are the foundation of safety, quality, and improvement. In aviation, those standards take the form of checklists, redundancies, procedures, and strict cockpit protocols designed to
Mark DeLuzio, the Father of Lean Accounting, tells his experience and observations on how traditional cost accounting will derail a Lean Transformation. In many organizations, Lean transformations don't fail on the shop
In this episode, you'll be able to take away why many "logical" workplace measures and incentives can drive behavior that conflicts with Lean principles, and why comparing work decisions to everyday home-life decisions c
A shop floor comment stops everyone in their tracks: the work finally matches what the customer actually needs. That is the spark behind Accidentally Aligned, and it opens a bigger issue most leaders dodge: alignment doe
Most Lean efforts do not stall because people hate improvement. They stall because the system was never built to support it. This episode gives you a fast, practical lens for evaluating whether your organization is built
Mark DeLuzio discusses how the 2-Bin Kanban is meant to ensure the operator does not run out of parts. Find out why it should not be used to structure your primary Kanban system.
Mark DeLuzio discusses the confusion that exists in the Lean Community, and the Lean Consulting industry and academia are primarily to blame. Returning to Lean Basics and ignoring distractions like Kata, Gemba Walks, Lea
Mark DeLuzio discusses the absence of engineers from the Gemba in both manufacturing and design. He also discusses the sin of engineering, which he calls "Catalogue Engineers."
Mark DeLuzio discusses how the TPS House is not a set of tools, but a way of thinking, and that the tools of Lean support these principles. Starting with the tools before understanding the principles has proven to be the
Mark DeLuzio discusses the dangers of cost-based pricing as well as the various issues encountered when doing so. He introduces the merits of market-based pricing instead.
Mark DeLuzio discusses the dangers of focusing on the lagging indicator of productivity and suggests we turn our attention towards improving our processes, which will, in turn, drive improved productivity.
Mark DeLuzio discusses the institutionalized waste of Mura and Muri, and if left unchallenged, it will derail a Lean transformation.
Mark DeLuzio discusses the errors made when architecting the Danaher Business System and the things he would do differently today.
A lean office can either accelerate transformation or quietly undermine it. The difference often comes down to trust, leadership alignment, and a clear sense of purpose. Drawing on his time as the architect of the Danahe
Many Lean transformations commence without understanding why, and the communications to employees are poor or nonexistent. Mark DeLuzio talks about this failure mode and why it is essential to answer the question, “What’
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