To get to Omniduct’s Lean Blog, go to this link.

FastCap’s Lean Video Library can be found under the video tab on all our websites, or by going to this link.

Paul Akers, of The American Innovator, visits Greg Glebe of Xylem Design, a Lean Manufacturer, and takes a tour of his display/pedestal facility. They are doing amazing things! You gotta see this!

For more information on Xylem Design, visit their website.

For more information on The American Innovator, visit our website or Facebook.

For more information on lean, go to 2 Second Lean or Facebook.

For more information on FastCap, visit our website or Facebook.

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Are you interested in Lean Manufacturing? Well take a trip to the shop floor and see a lean factory tour at FastCap in Ferndale, Washington. Paul Akers is the founder and president of FastCap, based in Bellingham, WA. FastCap is an international product development company founded in 1997 with over 2000 distributors worldwide. A prolific inventor, Paul holds US and international patents. FastCap, launches approximately 20 new innovative products per year and has won business of the year multiple times. Paul and his wife, Leanne, have built FastCap from their garage into a multi-million dollar company. At its core, FastCap is a Lean company, determined to continuously improve everything, everyday. Our products reflect the idea that things can be improved and the best ideas come from the shop floor.

Viking Plastics shared with video with us where they discuss their journey into Lean Manufacturing using the 2 Second Lean principle. What’s stopping you?

Leanne Akers demonstrates how cleaning up one cupboard a weekend is a great way to do the 3 s’ing (sort, straighten, standardize). This weekend…the spice cupboard.

For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

Paul Akers gives an example of how to do a lean video resume.

For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

Video Resume for Graham Johnson (Lean All-Star) with introduction from Paul Akers. [Note: Graham is no longer looking for a job.]

Scott Daily, General Manager at Maxwell Counters, Inc., sent us their first lean video. Congratulation to getting started on the journey!

Then Paul challenged them to take it one step further. Check out this video by Walters and Wolf (who have been doing lean for several years now).

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Paul Akers, of The American Innovator, leads a global round table at MAPP’s Benchmarking & Best Practices Conference in Indianapolis on October 17, 2013.

Round Table Participants
Ashley Bailey from Klime-Ezee
Kelly Goodsel of Viking Plastics
Nick Kocelj of Walters & Wolf
Michael Althoff of Yellotools
Greg Glebe of Xylem Design
Paul Akers of FastCap

For more information on MAPP’s Benchmarking & Best Practices Conference, visit their website.

For more information on The American Innovator, visit our website or Facebook.

For more information on lean, go to 2 Second Lean or Facebook.

For more information on FastCap, visit our website or Facebook.

To sign up to receive news regarding The American Innovator show, go to this link.