{"id":416,"date":"2007-08-12T21:56:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T04:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/416\/a-lean-case-interview"},"modified":"2014-09-24T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:17:09","slug":"a-lean-case-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/a-lean-case-interview\/416\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lean Case Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Suppose you were presented with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You have been hired to help a fast food franchise, a market leader in the South West Region of the U.S.\u00a0 This franchise collects and reports on a metric they call &#8220;<a title=\"scrap rate at burton snowboards\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/burton-snowboards-lean-manufacturing\/8765\/\">scrap rate<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Scrap Rate has been increasing for the previous 3 quarters for this 60 store franchise.\u00a0 This problem was costing this franchise ~ $35K\/month.<\/p>\n<p>Using Lean and\/or the <a title=\"dmaic framework in six sigma\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/lean-and-six-sigma-pdca-and-dmaic-comparison\/3179\/\">DMAIC framework<\/a>, please help this firm solve the &#8220;Scrap Rate&#8221; problem.\u00a0 Feel free to use paper, calculator, whiteboard, and to ask me questions.\u00a0 What&#8217;s going on with Scrap Rate?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a real engagement that I was engaged in several years ago.\u00a0 Here are a few hints:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a title=\"jeff bezos root cause analysis\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/jeff-bezos-5-why-exercise-root-cause-analysis-cause-and-effect-ishikawa-lean-thinking-six-sigma\/987\/\">root cause<\/a> is absolutely not obvious, but surprisingly trivial.<\/li>\n<li>The solution eliminated the root cause 100%.<\/li>\n<li>The solution cost less than $2.00 US Dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How would you go about solving this problem?<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you were presented with the following: &#8220;You have been hired to help a fast food franchise, a market leader in the South West Region of the U.S.\u00a0 This franchise collects and reports on a metric they call &#8220;scrap rate&#8220;.\u00a0 Scrap Rate has been increasing for the previous 3 quarters for this 60 store franchise.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12327,"featured_media":8626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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