LEGO has created a vehicle of innovation for young Americans since its inception in 1949. Not only has this creative product ignited the imagination of many young minds, it has earned the wrath of many barefoot parents stumbling through a dark home in the middle of the night. Most people can relate to two different types of pain events: bumping your funny bone and stepping on a LEGO block.
The History of a Building Block
LEGO is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company’s flagship product, LEGO, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. LEGO pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct objects; vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects. The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Since then, a global Lego subculture has developed. Supporting movies, games, competitions, and six Legoland amusement parks have been developed under the brand.
Explore the innovative world of LEGO manufacturing in this video.
Peter
I´m not sure what the real secret of this video shall be. This is standard mass production of injection molded parts and quite common. I would be much more interested to see the assembly of the individual kits as this must be headache to fill between 20 and 200 different parts in a given box.
I think the intent was to give insight into how LEGO manufactures for benchmarking purposes, not to highlight any specific Lean or Six Sigma techniques. If you run across a video showing the kit assembly process, let us know.