Beer Kanban!

Beer Kanban!

Did you know that simple concept of kanban can be applied to anything?  Here's a funny example of how LSI's Blackbelt participants developed a kanban for ordering beer in a bus in Japan.  It was the last day of LSI's Japan Lean Tour program, and they were allowed to have some beer in the bus on the way back from the last plant tour.  Instead of shouting "more beer", they came up with a system of tearing off the beer can's tab and send it back for the re-ordering "trigger."  Ingenious.



And in case you're wondering if that's LSI's staff singing karaoke, you're right - it's actually our Senior Support Staff Mayu.

For the record, we no longer offer beer or karaoke these days on the bus because it just got too complicated to organize these activities and of course, sometimes people got carried away.  Well, it was fun while it lasted (the most recent Japan group couldn't get karaoke on the bus, so they went out to sing at a nearby Karaoke in Nagoya).