

Incremental: The Continuous Improvement Podcast
Devin Bodony and Uriel Eisen
"Incremental: The Continuous Improvement Podcast" is a weekly show where business owners share their journey implementing continuous improvement. Explore Lean Mfg, TPS, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, JIT, Kanban, and more. Gain inspiration, practical advice and join the hosts on their journey of discovery and learning. Experience the benefits of continuous improvement and lean transformation for your business.
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5 snips
Jan 25, 2023 • 1h 1min
Episode 3. Is your non value added time in your production processes?
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.

Jan 24, 2023 • 59min
Quality of Life Rant
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.

Jan 22, 2023 • 1h 10min
Episode 1. Introductions
Uriel and Devin give some brief background on their businesses and then jump right into some process improvements in the shop!


