Incremental: The Continuous Improvement Podcast

The hosts delve into a fascinating ROI calculator, discussing its surprising limitations and practical applications. They highlight the challenge of identifying non-value-add tasks, suggesting that management overhead often poses a bigger issue than production inefficiencies. The conversation shifts to the eight lean wastes identified by Toyota and the importance of customizing waste reduction strategies for different businesses. They also explore building a culture of continuous improvement, emphasizing grassroots engagement over mandates, and share insights into effective job management tools.

Uriel and Devin discuss the relative merits of closely linked vs decoupled dependent processes, go over a new tool Uriel made to calculate how quickly a process improvement pays for itself, and Uriel rants on how calling improvements "Quality of life improvements", completely misses the point.  

Uriel and Devin give some brief background on their businesses and then jump right into some process improvements in the shop!