Extreme Makeover: FRC Lean Edition!

[jee7s]

As a mentor of a team that keeps iterating on lean processes and an engineer who employs them in his daily work, I would strongly suggest your team (or at least some of the mentors) read The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker. It's a very important philosophical overview of how Lean works.

My biggest piece of advice is to look at it the way Toyota intends it: as a process. The "Lean-ness" of your team isn't the reduced part count or increased reliability. Those are the results of your lean-ness. The lean-ness itself is the process you follow and the mechanisms you put in place to reduce your three wastes and provide improved quality.

Best of luck in your Lean Journey.