Lean Cool Gadgets

I love Lean Cool gadgets.
Gadgets are often good.
But to be Lean, they have to reduce waste.
And to be Cool, they have to so simple, or so profound, they change the way you do a job forever.

A Lean Cool gadget is often a simple, everyday tool, that we would normally never consider, applied to simplify a process. They come about, not because we were searching for gadgets, but as a result of a long hard team improvement effort. They are the by-product of effective kaizen.

Here are some Lean Cool Gadgets we've developed over the years. As I looked at our kaizen history, I realized we are producing more Lean Cool Gadgets now, and very few early on. Hmmmm....

The Lean Cool Gadgets on this video slideshow, have been developed by my colleagues- the hard working, dedicated, Lean Thinking men and women on the Yoder Production Team.