Flow is the single most important condition to strive for in construction. It is the most value-added effort on the journey to increase safety, customer delight, profits, employee satisfaction, and reduce production durations. Overproduction and excess inventory are the mother and father of all wastes. When we overproduce, we have excess inventory which needs to be transported and causes excess motion. The distraction of moving inventory creates defects or allows us to ignore them. Defects need to be fixed which causes overprocessing and that creates waiting. Workers are the heroes who make the money. We do not lose money while crews are working. We lose money when the flow of work or the crews are interrupted. Jason realizes there is no other system than Takt that implements the 14 principles of the Toyota Way.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The four pillars of lean in construction: respect for people and resources, stable environments with flow, total participation with visual systems, continuous improvement
• Why overproduction and inventory are the mother and father of all wastes and how they cascade into all other wastes
• The stop, call, and wait principle: discover abnormality, stop the process, fix immediate problem, investigate root cause
• How 3S (sort, straighten, sweep) creates the ability to find and see problems so they can be fixed
• The 14 principles of the Toyota Way and why Takt is the only system that implements them (level workload, create continuous flow, use pull systems, stop to fix problems)

We do not lose money while crews are working. We lose money when the flow of work or the crews are interrupted.

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Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:

· Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg

· LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt

· LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured

· LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw