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FIGURE 3.7
The Molecular Biology Production Group's 5S master checklist. Workers are scored on such
questions as, “Are there unused pipettes, tools, fi xtures, or similar items around?” or “Are lab benches
and equipment wiped clean?” or “Are all standards and protocols known and visible?” (Vokoun, “Opera-
tions capability improvement.” Copyright Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reproduced with
permission.)
biology. Consonant with the spirit of lean management, the central role
of the computer does not mean that workers have lost all agency in
the sequencing process; indeed, individual workers have a high level
of responsibility for monitoring and improving their own work. It
is the computer, however, that draws all these individual actions to-
