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    Gemba Walks Metric

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    The Gemba walk is a lean management practice where company leaders observe frontline operations to identify waste and improvement opportunities. It focuses on observation rather than problem-solving. Gemba walks help realize continuous incremental improvements by giving leaders a view of the real work environment. Spending time on the manufacturing floor through a Gemba walk can be a big learning experience, teaching leaders more than meetings or reports.

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    The Gemba walk is a lean management practice where company leaders observe frontline operations to identify waste and improvement opportunities. It focuses on observation rather than problem-solving. Gemba walks help realize continuous incremental improvements by giving leaders a view of the real work environment. Spending time on the manufacturing floor through a Gemba walk can be a big learning experience, teaching leaders more than meetings or reports.

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    Goal, Benefits and Implementation of Gemba

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    The Gemba walk is a lean management practice where company leaders observe frontline operations to identify waste and improvement opportunities. It focuses on observation rather than problem-solving. Gemba walks help realize continuous incremental improvements by giving leaders a view of the real work environment. Spending time on the manufacturing floor through a Gemba walk can be a big learning experience, teaching leaders more than meetings or reports.

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    The Gemba walk is a lean management practice where company leaders observe frontline operations to identify waste and improvement opportunities. It focuses on observation rather than problem-solving. Gemba walks help realize continuous incremental improvements by giving leaders a view of the real work environment. Spending time on the manufacturing floor through a Gemba walk can be a big learning experience, teaching leaders more than meetings or reports.

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    Gemba Walks

    Definition:
    A fundamental part of lean management philosophy, Gemba walks is an activity
    that takes management to the front lines to look for waste and opportunities. This
    concept stresses observation, input and reflection. It is not a time to enforce
    policy, solve problems or make changes.

    Goal:
    The original concept of Kaizen is frequent, incremental improvements. Gemba
    walks helps in realizing that. The goal is to be open towards employees and
    observe the real working environment.

    Benefits:
    During one of the Kaizen events, we spent one solid week on the manufacturing
    floor. I learned more in that week just watching than I did in 3 years. I took that
    idea to management asking them to consider putting the new designers and
    engineers on the floor for a week. That was met with ...that is a good idea, but...
    anyway, watch and learn before making any recommendations. That was a very
    big eye opener for me.

    1. The Gemba walk affords company leaders, managers and supervisors a


    simple, easy means of supporting overall continuous improvement and
    process standardization while helping to insure alignment of the efforts of
    all teams.
    2. With this approach, the need to work through problems or to understand
    issues at a distance diminishes.
    3. The more observation and problem solving that happen with operators on
    a gemba walk, the more successful and enduring the changes will be.
    4. In fact, reviewing ideas, piloting changes and tweaking implementation
    issues are all great uses of the gemba walk.

    Implementation:
    1. Expert Level
    a. Gemba Walks on lower level are done by employees on staff or
    supervisor level (depending on the size of the warehouse). These
    Gemba Walks are done frequently (i.e. from once a day to 3-4 times
    a week). The focus of the Gemba Walk changes every day such as
    5S, TIMWOOD, quality, health & safety, KPIs etc.
    2. Management Level
    a. This is led by the highest management level such as the operations
    or warehouse manager. At the beginning, such management level

    gemba walks need to be in higher frequency, but later they can be


    reduced to once a month.
    i. Selecting a theme for each walk
    ii. Questioning the supervisors about observed conditions
    iii. Listening attentively a learning experience for all leaders,
    managers and supervisors.
    iv. Sharing what you learned during the gemba walk
    v. Writing and posting a brief memo publicly sharing what you
    learned
    vi. Following up monitoring the process

    Examples:
    Videos on youtube!
    You need a coach to show them also!

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