The Daily Production Meeting: Doing It Lean!

Source: 2004 APICS International Conference Proceedings.
Copyright © APICS—The Association For Operations Management. Used by permission.

Nearly every manufacturing company has a daily or weekly production meeting. It is where many production, customer, materials, personnel, and other issues are addressed. Any number of people attend … some because they must, some to gather information, and some to provide information.

Having attended hundreds of these meeting over the years in dozens of companies from many types of industries, it is my experience that these meetings are held in an astonishingly wide variety of ways. Some are very effective, and some are not. Some are full of fact-based information, and others are opinion-oriented gripe sessions. Some help sort out the tough issues of the day, while in others only "good news" is permitted.

About The Author
John E. Boyer, CFPIM, works with companies in a wide variety of industries implementing worldclass manufacturing practices. He is a seasoned APICS speaker/contributor and is currently president of J.E. Boyer Company, Inc., a management education and consulting company.