Bernhard Schieber

Lean Communication / Toyota Production System

Knowledge

Lean communication makes operating interfaces explicit: who requests, who responds, what condition should be visible, and what happens when work departs from standard. Boards and signals need response authority and improvement routines. The label describes a family of mechanisms rather than a standalone Toyota method.

What these mean

Editorial orientation · Family

Tool

In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.

Editorial orientation · Category

Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

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