Shownotes
These are some key points taken from my interview with the President of W Machine Works, Marzel Neckien.
1. While conducting a facility tour with a customer in 2005 the customer provided feedback that “they weren’t laid out right, weren’t following Lean practices and that they needed to begin a continuous improvement journey.”
2. Some of the key struggles in their Lean journey include “taking time for the improvements, completing open items and sustaining improvements.”
3. Some of the biggest successes have been “Putting the processes in place to support unattended machining on the second shift. We have 10 machines running unattended on the second shift and that has enabled increased growth.”
4. “It has been great to see employees embrace taking on tasks and achieving great things together.”
5. “Got to have small wins, make small improvements, let employees see that it will work, and it will avalanche and get bigger.”
6. “My advice is to find a consultant that you can trust, they will hold you accountable and you will have greater results.”
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