Morning Meeting Waste Reviews Using Improvement Videos
Teach waste recognition daily by tying real internal and external improvement videos to the eight waste categories.
- Creator
TheAMEConnect- Improvement date
- June 16, 2024
- Company
Southwest Steel Buildings- Wastes
Teams struggle to spot waste because the categories stay abstract. Without concrete examples, people cannot recognize overprocessing or missing visuals in their own work.
In the morning meeting the team reviews two second improvement videos, both internal ones from their own shop and external ones, and walks each through the waste cycle. They name which waste each video attacks so people learn to see waste using real footage.
Make waste visible and reusable by teaching the categories with real, concrete examples every day.
What is a Morning Meeting Waste Reviews Using Improvement Videos?
This is a short daily huddle routine built around improvement videos. The team plays clips of two second improvements, some captured inside their own operation and some pulled from outside sources, then discusses each one against the standard list of wastes.
The goal is not just to celebrate the improvement. It is to teach the waste cycle by connecting a visible, real change to the specific waste it removes, whether that is overprocessing, a missing visual control, or another category.
By repeating this daily, waste recognition becomes a shared skill rather than a slide people forget. New and experienced workers build the same mental model of what waste looks like on the floor.
It doubles as a win for the day exercise, giving people a concrete, achievable thing to notice and act on before they go home.
Why it works
The routine turns scattered improvements into a reusable teaching library that makes proven fixes visible to everyone.
- Real examples make abstract waste categories concrete and easy to recognize.
- Reviewing internal and external clips spreads proven solutions across the team.
- Naming the waste each video removes builds a shared vocabulary and reduces misclassification.
- Daily repetition compounds the skill so people spot waste on their own work.
How to create this idea
- 1Collect improvement videos
Gather short two second improvement clips from your own shop and from external sources.
- 2Add it to the morning meeting
Reserve a few minutes each day to play one or two clips for the whole team.
- 3Walk the waste cycle
For each clip, ask which waste it removes, such as overprocessing or a missing visual control.
- 4Name the win
Tie the discussion to a concrete win for the day so people leave with one clear takeaway.
- 5Keep a running library
Save the clips and their waste tags so the examples can be reused for onboarding and training.
Best used when
- daily huddles
- building waste literacy
- onboarding new hires
- continuous improvement culture
Less useful when
- no video capture habit
- no daily meeting
- team already fluent in waste
Tags
- Problem
- hidden wastetraining gapswaste blindness
- Lean methods
- waste walktwo second improvementsvisual managementdaily huddle
- Application
- morning meetingteam trainingonboarding
Captured from TheAMEConnect at Southwest Steel Buildings in the video "AME 2 Second Lean Tour: Southwest Steel Buildings", at 00:06:03. On Lean Toolbox. Watch the original video on YouTube ↗
