Chris Blackburn
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first heard Jul 2026
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And when people or machinery are actually actioning is the only time that actual value is being done.
And you want to, you know, reduce the amount of overhead and waste in the system so that you make a very efficient plant.
And it's easy to see because you could watch the actual thing being built.
I believe over in a software or digital kind of business, it's much more difficult to look at.
And I think that's the challenge for the organizations.
But here's what we look at is inside of a physical manufacturing plant, there's data out there and metrics and all that type of stuff.
Some of the most efficient plants on the planet are Toyota plants and the Toyota process and all of that as well.
And
you know, they measure things like 70% efficiency of the flow of the system and all of that, right?
Where 70% of a human time or time of the system is spent on building value, not doing other pieces of the puzzle.
We translate that over into the digital or the enterprise.
We've measured this before and it's like something like five to 6% of time is being spent on value added tasks.
So the high level is value, overhead and waste.
Value, overhead and waste is in any system whatsoever.
If you talk about the physical manufacturing plant, the only time is when you're welding,
when you're drilling, when you're spraying paint, those are the only value add times where you're actually producing a product of value.
Overhead in the manufacturing plant would be like sharpening the drill bits or servicing the welder or even sweeping the shop floor to make it safe to use.
Like those things have to be done to make sure you do the value.
But waste is anything else in between.
It's stacked inventory, it's extra motion, it's all of those types of things.
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