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| 'Lean’ process to make state more efficient |
| By theolympian.com - BRAD SHANNON |
| Published: 01/23/2012 |
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WA -- Inside the Stafford Creek state prison, an inmate serving time for murder works quietly at a desk, using computer-assisted-design tools. He is putting final touches on a blueprint for a bunk bed that might be built for a university’s dorms. Other inmates take furniture orders at one end of a long row of desks in the prison’s furniture-business office. The desks are arranged in the sequence of the decisions that have to be made, helping orders move into production within 36 to 48 hours compared with two weeks previously. Right next door, the Correctional Industries’ factory has carefully placed equipment for manufacturing – tables, steel filing cabinets, chairs and other cubicle furnishings – in small zones devoted to each task. The number of tools and steps is minimized, using the “Lean” industrial design principles pioneered by Toyota Corp. more than two decades ago. “Everything is put in flow. Everything is placed strategically,” said Jeannie Miller of Washington Correctional Industries, on a recent tour of the Stafford Creek facility. Read More. |
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