Over the last few weeks we have been doing some good old fashioned time and motion studies using 21st century apps. We are experimenting with this to understand where our time is spent and how much non value added "motion" we are doing every day. Tracking your movement on farm during your day is an extremely powerful tool to use to begin to understand the flow of what you are doing - your spaghetti diagram. Here are a couple of images of two of Mat's work days over calving recently. (He has been … [Read more...]