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17 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The manufacturing guys have a neat trick It is called an “Ohno circle”.  They paint them on the floor at different points in factories and then the team leader stands in the circle with a clip board for 30 minutes, writing down everything that he can see that doesn’t work.  He or she then spends […]

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