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How a Small Brewery Cut Spoilage by 30 Percent with Lean Operations
Episode 58 of The Operations Podcast dives into how a modest craft brewery—Great Lakes Brewing Company—slashed ingredient spoilage by 30 percent and boosted throughput by 15 percent using lean manufacturing principles adapted from Toyota. Lucas and Luna walk through the specific changes: rearranging the brewhouse layout to reduce motion waste, implementing a pull system for yeast propagation, and using visual kanban cards for hop inventory. They explain why small-batch operations often have hidden inefficiencies that compound over time, and how a process-mapping exercise revealed that brewers…
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