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This entry was posted on 2/8/2008 7:29 AM and is filed under Engineering.

Or: What's a Bored Engineer to Do?
By Mark Miner

I checked out a copy of Lean Thinking from our corporate library in hopes of learning more about this method of working. I'm not very far into it yet, and we'll see if I like it as well as Jim Collins' work, but it shows promise. What is an engineer to do, though, when he has stretches of time not claimed by work, just waiting for the vendor I monitor to screw up? So, in the interest of redeeming the time, I have taken all of Orbital's online Lean training, and now I have the book. I might try to become a certified Lean Champion. Why do executives like clever (read: "cute") names for things? Oh well.

Today Lean, tomorrow six sigma? We'll see. I still think industrial engineers are sketchy.

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2/8/2008 10:02 AM Esposa de Mateo wrote:
Eh? Mark, you're lean enough! Can you explain this whole "lean" thing for we pleebs?
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1. 2/9/2008 10:38 AM Mark Miner wrote:
  Sorry for the lack of background, Charity. Lean is just a disciplined business approach to the philosophy of doing more with less. It is the principle behind the Toyota Production System, and it is a mindset of finding and eliminating waste from processes.
  
  Regards,
  Mark
  
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2/8/2008 10:02 AM Innkeeper wrote:
"What's an engineer to do....?" Call your mother, write your own book, invent a better paperclip, or.....
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1. 2/9/2008 10:39 AM Mark Miner wrote:
  No, ma, if I did that on company time, they'd own it! But they can't stop me from learning!
  
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