Sometimes people use "built-in quality" or "stop and fix" as a replacement for jidoka and I've realised that this is not accurate.
Jidoka is not just about stopping and notifying of problems immediately. It also includes the concept of separating human and machine work. Effectively the idea of using machines to free humans. The machines work for us, we don't work for them.
If we do consider the stop and notify aspect, it's not really about the automated stops and visual indicators. It's really more critically about people seeing problems and pulling andon cords. It's really more about people interpreting what is actually happening.
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Dear Sydney Geek Girls,
I'm leaving Sydney for the sweltering heat of Darwin and the company of my
wonderful family.
You are in good hands with Catherine ...
2 months ago
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This has annoyed me for a long time. I learned that Jidoka (Autonomation) is about understanding that humans and machines both have their own different strengths and weaknesses. Jidoka is about designing processes that play to both these strengths by supporting humans in doing their jobs. Not replacing the humans in the process.
If you look at the kanban process in manufacturing plants where card readers are used to sort the cards and produce reports, you'll find a great example of jidoka in action.
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