The Rest is Lean
By Alan Lothian, John Dee, Russell Watkins
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The Rest is Lean Channel is a light-hearted and educational look at how to make businesses better through Lean Manufacturing and Operational Excellence.
Suited for all levels of understanding and from any industry or geographical region.
John, Alan & Russell are time-served lean professionals with over 30 years each in this field. Leading and coaching some of the best businesses from SMEs to multi-nationals.
Trained by some of the highest calibre Japanese masters from Toyota(one step from Ohno himself), Honda and Nissan , we want to share our experiences with you, allowing some of these 'pearls of wisdom' to help make your business processes, people, and profitability that little bit better each day.
We welcome your comments, questions, and guidance on future discussion topics so feel free to drop us a line via the comments section or via email.
therestislean@gmail.com
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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Delphine Fillot
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May 31, 2026 |
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Sustaining Lean Transformation aka How Long Do You Persevere?
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May 17, 2026 |
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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Ian Mountain
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May 03, 2026 |
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Does removing variation inhibit innovation? aka The Normalisation of Deviation.
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Thank you for Stopping the Line aka John's 'Cuddly' Trip to Toyota Deeside
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Lean Browsers & Ugly Babies aka David's Sandwich
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Astrid Mozes
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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How Lean Helps in Real Life aka The Puppet Show Looks Different but the Strings are the Same!
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Who's your Phone-A-Friend Al? aka The Problem, The Difficulty!
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Rob Marchant
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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I'll Stop When You Squeak! aka What Happens if We Don't Improve?
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Leadership, Listening and Gemba aka Looking Through a Different Lens
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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The Tact of Takt II aka You Can't Be a Little Bit Pregnant!
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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The Tact of Takt aka A Trip to Japan
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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The TRIL Leadership Interview Series - Glyn Holman
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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PDCA or CAPDo aka In-SPIRE-ing Lean
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Lean You Wouldn't Do? aka Red Flags & Frogs in Wells
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Voice of the Customer aka The 'Pull' of Learning
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Season 2 Finale aka Tool or not to Tool, That is the Question
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Too Much Lean, Is it possible? aka Tesla and Toyota Insights
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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World Class Team Leader Training Ideas aka Is This Legal???
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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World Class Team Leader Competencies aka Going Global
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Visual Management, Gemba and Escalation aka 'The Autonomic System'
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Measuring SQCDP and ensuring value over cost aka 'The measures of unintended consequence'
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Keeping it simple is the key to sustainable lean transformation aka 'Goat or Car'
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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#subcon2025 Special Edition. Podcast live at the NEC 'Why lean sustainability can fail'
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Barriers to sustainable Lean. Visible support & need 4 lean aka 'When no problem is a problem'
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Useful Gadgets & Team Dynamics for #lean professionals #nlp aka 'Man Down Man Down!'
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May 18, 2025 |
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Quality, Cost & Delivery #qcd The essential KPI's for every lean team brief? aka Q&A Session
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May 04, 2025 |
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The 4 types of problem solving skill. Is return to standard Kaizen? aka New season Rambling
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Rachel Reeves faces UK manufacturing questions aka 'Look after our SMEs & Apprentices!'
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Jugaad to TPM. The merits of using foreign words in your business aka "Talking Japanese'
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Start your lean journey. Is Honda, Toyota, Nissan's approach different? aka 'A Borg Mentality'
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Who is the best Operator? & how does a group share lean practice aka Buddy plants & pull
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Avoid the most common red tagging mistakes in 5S activities aka 'A Dose of 5S Part 2'
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Deploying 5S, 5C, Workplace Organisation. It's a Lean model, not a script aka 'A Dose of 5S'
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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What makes a good lean change agent aka Avengers Assemble, and how we got started in Lean
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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How to assess a company QUICKLY, for Lean traits aka First Visit tips
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The nature of night shifts, and avoiding the lean blocker 'Silo Mentality' aka 'Night Silos'
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Effective Start of Shift Briefs and the negative impact of bad ones aka 'Check-in Fury'
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Live Pareto charts and alternate data for effective CI Op-ex and Lean, aka 'Skip Diving'
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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We name the toughest job in manufacturing & how to support them in lean aka "well meant intent"
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Jan 23, 2025 |