Product novelty 14. October 2026
Process Gardening - processes without loops
Loops, or, better: bows are wonderful! On gift ribbons, on flower arrangements, and on shoelaces.
In production, things look different. Someone walks over to the shelf, can’t find the instructions, asks a coworker who’s in the middle of a setup, gets a half-baked answer, figures it out somehow, and three shifts later, the defective products show up. Then the whole bow-tying process starts over from the beginning.
The frustrating thing about this is that most of the time, someone in the company knows exactly how to do it right. The knowledge is there. It’s just sitting in the head of someone who’s currently on vacation, or in a file that no one has been able to find for two years.
I call this the proliferation of instructions.
There’s no ill will or laziness behind it. It’s simply grown this way because no one ever had time to tend the garden.
Well-maintained processes eliminate such loops—not through more bureaucracy, but because the knowledge is right where it’s needed: at the moment the work is being done, for the employee who’s currently standing in front of the component.
What kinds of loops do you recognize in your company? And which ones are the most persistent—the ones that keep coming back?
At Fakuma, we’ll show you exactly how to permanently eliminate such loops from your processes. Stop by and see us: Hall B – Booth B2-2206.
Sincerely, Dr. Mario Schubert
Process Gardening GmbH
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In production, things look different. Someone walks over to the shelf, can’t find the instructions, asks a coworker who’s in the middle of a setup, gets a half-baked answer, figures it out somehow, and three shifts later, the defective products show up. Then the whole bow-tying process starts over from the beginning.
The frustrating thing about this is that most of the time, someone in the company knows exactly how to do it right. The knowledge is there. It’s just sitting in the head of someone who’s currently on vacation, or in a file that no one has been able to find for two years.
I call this the proliferation of instructions.
There’s no ill will or laziness behind it. It’s simply grown this way because no one ever had time to tend the garden.
Well-maintained processes eliminate such loops—not through more bureaucracy, but because the knowledge is right where it’s needed: at the moment the work is being done, for the employee who’s currently standing in front of the component.
What kinds of loops do you recognize in your company? And which ones are the most persistent—the ones that keep coming back?
At Fakuma, we’ll show you exactly how to permanently eliminate such loops from your processes. Stop by and see us: Hall B – Booth B2-2206.
Sincerely, Dr. Mario Schubert
Process Gardening GmbH
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