From Flame To Flourish: End Firefighting
"At a traditional manufacturing organization, your goal is to solve the problem as quickly as you can and get back to equilibrium. But at a lean organization, your goal is to learn from the problem so you can spread that knowledge out and never have the problem return."
The above insight is why Andrew Murphy was brought into the medical manufacturer Norman Noble to mature them from a job shop with a mom & pop structure to a corporate structure.
We discuss how Andrew and his team are implementing lean manufacturing and changing the company culture along with the tools and systems they use.
Watch and listen below!
Written by Dozuki
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