Lean production came in the 80s. Road to success or exhaustion? Are you for or against "lean production". It's a question I encountered online. The subject concerns Sweden's development and the government's policy on the Alliance's "Future Path".
Lean production is an abused term. The word is mistranslated. The West could not interpret Japanese philosophy of Tao in terms of yin and yang or female and male.
The Western method applied to the large-scale industry, which is very much built on pushing efficiency and solutions "top down" with technocracy and control systems. A "wine press" that squeezes the must out of people. The assembly line is a symbol.
As a parenthesis, Gethsemane means wine press.
Tao describes the underlying order, which the universe laws in a balance between polarities between "the female" and "the male principle". Which applies to all areas. A relationship between heaven and earth
- day and night
- man and woman
- creation and matter
- support and growing
Kaizen 改善 became a concept of leadership that was developed for Toyota's production development and continuous quality improvement. Development from within and out of a dynamic collaboration through a production team and together with management. Yes and no did not apply or rather these concepts are not used. What applies to we understand” or "we do not understand". The whole team is a subject.
Nothing was started unless everyone understood. Consensus. In the West this is difficult. We can say "yes" without obligation. In the organizations, there may therefore be decisions that do not apply. Not only here but also in politics.
From this approach came "Lean production" about how to manage resources. The purpose of "Lean" is to identify and eliminate all factors in a production process that do not create value for the end customer. Simply put, it's about 'More value for less work'.
Instead of pushing solutions from above, they are "sucked up" or grow out of the group from within in a collaboration with the knowledgeable and producing the right equipment and components for production. Management exists as a support to secure conditions. Servant leadership.
This corresponds to the female principle and the male. Together, everything is a process in an integrated collaboration from different directions and the environment. A symbiosis that also applies to nature. If one part ceases, then everything else is affected.
This process is multidimensional unlike the linear and top-driven system.
Japanese industry enjoyed tremendous success and competitiveness during the 70s. The zero error principle applied. Japanese leaders said that Japan was superior to the West's primitive philosophy of reality and organization.
The West could not catch up as they could not understand this ancient knowledge. A universal principle in everything. In life on earth, design of environment and culture, about food, design of gardens, buildings; and in artistic and creative work.g
West tried to crack the nut about the "lean" philosophy. The first attempt was called "Fragile production”. Delicate production. It could not be accepted. It was too diffuse. Industry leaders could not absorb that with their large control and career organizations
West took to the ax and said "Lean production" - lean production. It is concrete. Everything would be lean, lean organizations, companies, hospitals, healthcare, etc. For survival, it was about cost hunting, chasing numbers, people, money and time. A constant increase in productivity in rationalizations.
Rationalizations took over. In bigotry, everything could become a cost. Even that which is an investment. A downward spiral develops like a maelstrom.
However, not all. Many were able to approach the method and change their attitudes and find the quality process.
But a template gained a foothold as damaged society, leadership, organizations and not least public health. A whole thinking is corrupted. Many young people have suffered under brutal leadership. Back to the militancy and the dictatorship of the directors. Content in development fades away. Organizations freeze. Authorities lose focus, which has now happened and is happening.
The concept of quality disappeared during the 80s. A great destruction of capital took place in rationalizations and layoffs. Important skills disappeared. Quality losses cost the industry many billions. Infirmary and care facilities were closed and new ones were built for large scale and central control. Telephone gateways came that directly cut off relations between the sick and care centers. Everywhere came the system of electronics and technology relationship. The information society is advancing.
Stress and illness came in the 80s. Statistics show it.
The stress also came in Japan. The work eventually became a life's task and the company swallowed people in its capitalism.
Reinfeldt has used this for the entire nation. Cost hunting, short-termism, number hunting and profit hunting without ethics and total responsibility. Road to more crisis and chaos.
The society also consists of the female and male part in application of the Tao, which provides the dynamism of society
Without perhaps knowing, so contains Keynesianism this through the connection between business, "nourishment for life”, and the public, which the Swedish model was based on that provided welfare. It is not without the concept of "father of the country" as the benefactor of the people
Intuitively, the "grays" could realize this. Those who wore gray coats and worked in workshops. Natural relationships developed between work and public education, between engineers and the craftsmen. There is a tradition here. The human being came to the center and the material became a tool for welfare and development. Access to skilled craftsmen founded world-class Swedish industrial development.
Economics consists in part of what "grows" which becomes companies and society's organizations which become a support for growth and development in a cycle.
This attacks the right wing feverishly and wants to ruin all relationships and build systems to be pushed down on us all and create the "wine press". Privatization and individualization make society "single-sex". Materialism is not all-powerful. There is another dimension to life.