Locations

Day 6: Label Locations, Not Items

Labeling every item becomes homework. Nobody keeps up with it.

I’ve seen workshops where someone spent a weekend labeling every drawer, every bin, every shelf — and within a month it was all outdated. Items moved. New tools arrived. Labels peeled off. The system collapsed under its own weight.

Day 2: The One Home Rule - Find It Fast

One Home Rule: every item has one home location. Flow dies when you search.

If a tool doesn’t have a home, it becomes a traveler. Travelers create mess and wasted time. You put the router on the assembly table “just for now” and three days later you’re tearing the shop apart looking for it. I’ve done this a hundred times!