Ideal Reality
The highest performance the existing capability could deliver if a different structure released it.
Ideal Reality is not a performance beyond a yard’s reach. It is the highest performance its existing people, drawings and equipment could deliver, organized differently.
The inquiry looks at the situation as if from the top of a mountain and asks what the cleanest configuration of the work would be, with no organizational obstacle in the way. When the answer can be stated in four lines, the rest of the recovery is the work of removing the obstacles between the present organization and that answer.
- 1Proper teams in every zonesupplied by zone-based planning.
- 2Work at the earliest point in timesupplied by continuous flow to one beat.
- 3No interference and no stopssupplied by one working team in one zone at a time.
- 4The right methodsupplied by the team’s own work practice.
“Performance equals potential, less interference, less hesitation.”
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See it in a caseBoustead Naval Shipyard, 2013–2017 →
In the bookChapter 8 · Chapter 9, The Heartbeat of the Shipyard