Comments on: Reduce Batch Sizes to Improve Project Workflow http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/08/04/646/ The magazine for the project age Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Hal http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/08/04/646/#comment-8696 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:18:23 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/08/04/646/#comment-8696 Speaking only for myself, I do get complacent about batch sizes in construction projects. Plywood comes in bundles of 50 sheets. Sheetrock in different batches. People just take for granted that they have to store piles of stuff. Then we start making stuff one big batch at a time. The data presented by Prof Sacks is compelling. If you are only going to do one thing, then reduce lot size to 1. Speaking only for myself, I do get complacent about batch sizes in construction projects. Plywood comes in bundles of 50 sheets. Sheetrock in different batches. People just take for granted that they have to store piles of stuff. Then we start making stuff one big batch at a time.

The data presented by Prof Sacks is compelling. If you are only going to do one thing, then reduce lot size to 1.

]]> by: .Joe Ely http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/08/04/646/#comment-8694 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:26:32 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2006/08/04/646/#comment-8694 Hal, I wonder just how long this concept of reducing batch size will cointinue to be remarkable. Yet, it is. It always amazes people. And it always generates cash. And it always brings surprise. Are we, in the lean community, too complacent, too imcompetent, too passivated to teach and continue to talk about this? It is a radical concept to most and this very simple move is worth huge amounts of cash to most businesses. Thanks for the good posts. And thanks for not batching them Hal, but sending them up one at a time :-) Hal, I wonder just how long this concept of reducing batch size will cointinue to be remarkable. Yet, it is. It always amazes people. And it always generates cash. And it always brings surprise.

Are we, in the lean community, too complacent, too imcompetent, too passivated to teach and continue to talk about this? It is a radical concept to most and this very simple move is worth huge amounts of cash to most businesses.

Thanks for the good posts. And thanks for not batching them Hal, but sending them up one at a time :-)

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