{"id":12434,"date":"2021-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lei.flywheelsites.com\/the-lean-post\/articles\/contributors-corner-learning-with-10x-speed-at-us-synthetic\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T09:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T13:51:21","slug":"contributors-corner-learning-with-10x-speed-at-us-synthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/contributors-corner-learning-with-10x-speed-at-us-synthetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributor\u2019s Corner: Learning With 10X Speed at US Synthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"responsive-image-full\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Go&nbsp;and&nbsp;find the best chess player you know&nbsp;and&nbsp;challenge them to a&nbsp;game&nbsp;with the&nbsp;following conditions:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Your opponent&nbsp;gets to move&nbsp;first.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li><li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You must give up some of your pieces.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Would you&nbsp;bet $1,000 that you could win? Would you even be interested in playing?&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What if you could move twice for every move your opponent made?&nbsp;Would the advantage of speed make up for&nbsp;your&nbsp;disadvantages?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At US Synthetic,&nbsp;we experienced the power of&nbsp;speed&nbsp;when we reduced our learning cycle time&nbsp;from 43&nbsp;days to 4.5 days.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rapid Learning Cycles&nbsp;at US Synthetic<\/span><\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I have spent the last 25 years working in R&amp;D\u00a0at US Synthetic, a manufacturer of synthetic diamond tools for oil and gas drilling, machining, and bearing applications.\u00a0I vividly recall reading the chess game analogy in\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Certain to Win<\/span><\/em><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by Chet Richards\u00a0and wondering what we could do to\u00a0improve speed in product development.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/info.lean.org\/building-in-learning-and-knowledge-reuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DB-knowledge-reuse-pdf.jpg\" alt=\"Building in Learning and Knowledge Reuse\" class=\"wp-image-20809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DB-knowledge-reuse-pdf.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DB-knowledge-reuse-pdf-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DB-knowledge-reuse-pdf-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DB-knowledge-reuse-pdf-375x188.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DB-knowledge-reuse-pdf-190x95.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This\u00a0focus on\u00a0rapid learning was a\u00a0powerful insight that shaped\u00a0my\u00a0journey with\u00a0lean\u00a0product\u00a0and process\u00a0development\u00a0(LPPD).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Our product development process typically involves changing the material properties of the diamond to match the requirements of our customers\u2019 applications. Almost every new product we develop must be fabricated and tested in our lab to verify that performance matches our design targets. Our designers were often waiting for parts to be built or lab tests&nbsp;to complete so they could learn if their ideas worked or if they needed to try something else.&nbsp;I&nbsp;wondered what it would be like to wake up in the morning with an idea and have lab results before&nbsp;I&nbsp;went home that evening.&nbsp;The idea of one-day&nbsp;learning cycles&nbsp;became a simple, clear goal that we could use to drive improvement work.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><strong>Everyone wants to go \u2018faster\u2019 in development, but what does faster mean? Speed should refer to the rate at which we learn.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><cite>Allen&nbsp;Ward&nbsp;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Our first kaizen&nbsp;(improvement) event&nbsp;related to rapid learning focused on the prototype manufacturing step. At the time,&nbsp;highly skilled technicians would beg, borrow, and steal time on the production floor to build prototypes. The kaizen prep revealed that it took an average of 23 days to make prototype parts for testing. Simple tools like spaghetti diagrams and process flow maps showed that a dedicated prototype cell could dramatically reduce cycle time.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We cobbled together an assortment of used and unwanted machines from the production floor and built&nbsp;our first cell dedicated to product development. We asked some of the technicians to staff the cell full time so we could experiment with the system and measure the improvement. By the end of the kaizen event, we had reduced the turnaround time&nbsp;from 23 days&nbsp;to&nbsp;four&nbsp;days&nbsp;and demonstrated the value of a full-time staff. Fortunately, our current prototype cell has the same state-of-the-art machinery as our production floor, and we have been able to further reduce flow time to 1.5 days&nbsp;through&nbsp;years of ongoing PDCA.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The next area we chose to tackle was testing. Our data showed that it&nbsp;took&nbsp;an average of&nbsp;20 days to complete a test once the parts were&nbsp;built. The kaizen team value stream mapped the testing process and identified&nbsp;numerous&nbsp;sources of waste.&nbsp;Why did we walk nearly&nbsp;five&nbsp;miles back and forth from the testing bay to an office to input data into a computer for each test? Why did we shut the machine down&nbsp;for&nbsp;40 minutes each day to clean an external component? Why did it take nearly&nbsp;four&nbsp;hours to change over from one test to another? We tackled each of these issues through multiple&nbsp;PDCA cycles&nbsp;and eventually cut testing turnaround time from an average of 20 days to just&nbsp;three.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We have yet to achieve our goal of&nbsp;a&nbsp;one-day turnaround from idea to test, but&nbsp;we&nbsp;came&nbsp;remarkably&nbsp;close,&nbsp;reducing&nbsp;our learning cycle time from 43 days to 4.5.&nbsp;That is nearly ten times the learning rate.&nbsp;Imagine the chess game if you could move 10 times for every move of your opponent! Think about what that means to a development team. They can now learn&nbsp;something new 58 times a year&nbsp;compared to&nbsp;six&nbsp;times a year&nbsp;with the previous system.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rapid Learning&nbsp;as a Competitive Advantage<\/span><\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Those&nbsp;of us&nbsp;involved in product development&nbsp;often face&nbsp;constraints&nbsp;like&nbsp;the&nbsp;ones in the&nbsp;chess example.&nbsp;Despite our best efforts, we are not always first to market with a new product or innovation.&nbsp;Our competitors may have more money,&nbsp;more&nbsp;people, and&nbsp;more&nbsp;resources working on product development than we do. Finally, the basic rule of all competition is to assume you are not smarter than your competitors (or your customers,&nbsp;for that matter).&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Is there a general strategy we can use to overcome these disadvantages and still win? Air Force Colonel John R. Boyd was obsessed with this question. Boyd was a fighter pilot and highly influential military strategist. The F-86 he flew during the Korean War achieved a stunning ten-to-one kill ratio against the MiG-15, a far superior aircraft in many ways. The MiG-15 could make harder turns than the F-86, could accelerate and climb faster, and had better high-altitude performance. So, what happened?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"pullquote pullquote-right\">The ability to operate at a faster tempo or rhythm than an adversary enables one to fold the adversary back inside himself so that he can neither appreciate nor keep up with what is going on. He will become disoriented and confused.<\/span><\/span><\/p><cite>John Boyd&nbsp;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Boyd&nbsp;identified two&nbsp;subtle&nbsp;advantages&nbsp;the F-86 had over the MiG. First, the F-86 had a bubble canopy that gave the&nbsp;pilot a 360-degree field of vision, while the MiG pilot\u2019s view was blocked&nbsp;to the rear. Second, the F-86 had full hydraulic control, allowing the pilot to&nbsp;transition from one maneuver to another quicker than the MiG,&nbsp;which did not have hydraulic controls.&nbsp;Boyd hypothesized that the ability to learn and adapt faster in the F-86 was the secret to its success.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Boyd\u2019s interest went well beyond the F-86 paradox, however.&nbsp;His direct experience as a fighter pilot and considerable research ranging&nbsp;from the German Blitzkrieg of World&nbsp;War&nbsp;II to the Toyota Production System led Boyd to a breakthrough insight:&nbsp;we can&nbsp;use time as a principal strategic device.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Steven Spear&nbsp;makes the connection&nbsp;between learning rate and performance&nbsp;clear in&nbsp;<\/span><em><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The High Velocity Edge<\/span><\/em><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The difference between good companies and great companies is their rate of learning.&nbsp;Toyota&nbsp;did not start out making high-quality cars at low cost.&nbsp;In 1965,&nbsp;Toyota\u2019s productivity was about half that of GM.&nbsp;However, Toyota was learning how to improve quality and reduce cost at a rate about&nbsp;3.5 times&nbsp;faster than GM so that by 1990, Toyota\u2019s productivity was&nbsp;twice GM\u2019s.&nbsp;Toyota and other fast learning organizations have&nbsp;turned their rate of learning into a sustainable competitive advantage.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If we can learn faster than our competition, we are certain to win!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Competitive advantage derives from discovering new principles, or new applications of basic principles, specific to your products and obtainable only from your experience.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><cite>Allen&nbsp;Ward&nbsp;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Unintended Consequences<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Increasing our learning rate by a factor of 10&nbsp;created&nbsp;several&nbsp;benefits for US Synthetic.&nbsp;First,&nbsp;we&nbsp;were able to&nbsp;test multiple parts instead of just one.&nbsp;Variation is a fact of life,&nbsp;and the only way to know the size of your measurement variation is to make repeat measurements.&nbsp;Being able to see the variation helped us avoid&nbsp;launching products that would not actually improve performance.&nbsp;Second, we could now use DOE (Design of Experiments)&nbsp;instead of&nbsp;One-Factor-At-A-Time experimentation&nbsp;to truly understand which factors&nbsp;improved performance.&nbsp;It became clear&nbsp;that&nbsp;we had multiple ways of achieving&nbsp;good performance. Some were more complex, costly, and&nbsp;of&nbsp;lower quality than others.&nbsp;The&nbsp;DOE results&nbsp;provided&nbsp;a rational framework for&nbsp;fixing the elements that did not affect performance&nbsp;while leaving the performance elements flexible.&nbsp;The quality&nbsp;of new products improved using this fixed-vs-flexible approach to reduce complexity and variety.&nbsp;Yields of new products have been greater than&nbsp;legacy products&nbsp;for the&nbsp;past&nbsp;four&nbsp;years!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I would&nbsp;like to say&nbsp;that is&nbsp;the end of the story, but&nbsp;the&nbsp;reality is a little&nbsp;more complex.&nbsp;One&nbsp;unintended consequence of reducing&nbsp;turnaround time&nbsp;by a factor of 10&nbsp;was that&nbsp;it is now&nbsp;faster to test&nbsp;every new idea&nbsp;than to&nbsp;see if the data already exists.&nbsp;We&nbsp;have&nbsp;a gap&nbsp;in our ability to capture and reuse knowledge.&nbsp;However, I know&nbsp;we can close this gap&nbsp;with ongoing kaizen and by drawing on the&nbsp;LPPD community for ideas and inspiration.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How rapid learning cycles helped the synthetic diamond manufacturer slash its idea-to-test turnaround time from 43 days to 4.5 days \u2014 and create a significant advantage in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"12608,6789,3738,9664,12676,12523","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[44],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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