Paul Akers invites you to attend the Northeast Lean Conference on September 19-20, 2017 in the Worcester, MA (outside of Boston).
For more information about this conference or to sign up, visit their website.
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Text to Speech Tricks – Lean iPhone tricks
Paul Akers (and Yoshi) provides us with his favorite Text to Speech tricks on his iPhone.
Do you need a 3S? Box?
Filipe Marques, of Torre, sent us this video showing their 3P “Question Mark” Box. Maybe you could use one, too?
Developing Lean Leaders Summit
Tired of winter? Paul Akers invites you to join him, Ritsuo Shingo and George Trachilis in Santorini Greece, July 31 – August 4, 2017 for the 2nd Annual Developing Lean Leaders’ Summit.
For more information or to register, go to this link.
James says thanks!
James from Outside the Music Box says thanks! If you don’t know about him, you need to learn more!!!
Lean Chop Saw Station
Gary LeClerc, of Renew Furniture, sent us this video showing how he Leaned out his Chope Saw with the following FastCap Products. Cool!
Best Fence
ChopShop Saw Hoods
LED Saw Hood Light – replaced with Flex Light
10 Million Dollar Stick
CatEyes Glasses
Zero Clearance Tape
Fastpipe
Airline Lounge Orientation
Paul Akers recommends looking around at airports and airport lounges. Sometime the best stuff is a little harder to find.
Lean Pocket Hole Station
Ken Allender, of Wildwood Cabinetry, sent us this video showing a super improvement Fitz made to their pocket hole station.
Paul’s Year End Message
Paul Akers reviews 2016 and realizes that failure is the platform for innovation.
Why Is Something As Simple As Lean So Difficult to Do?
“Recently my good friend Paul Akers of FastCap and lean blogging fame asked me why lean, which appears to be so simple, ends up being so hard for people to do. In my decades of leading lean, in fact, this has proven to be perhaps the most important challenge.”
Want to hear Art Byrne’s response? Press here to read the entire article.