“At the starting point of this interview, Paul Akers, CEO of FastCap in Ferndale (a global enterprise with 900 products in 40 countries, estab. 1997) spoke from Shanghei with Managing Editor Mike McKenzie through FaceTime on their iPhones. Akers was wrapping up an “around-the-world” sojourn. At the finishing point of the interview, face-to-face, after a short time back home, he was leaving the next morning for Dubai to start his third circuitous global trip this year. While biting into a 5 o’clock snack of an apple at the FastCap facility, Akers personified the energy and excitement that leaps off your screen when you visit the FastCap website. “Do I seem the same in person as I do on the videos?” he asked. Without question. He walks the talk. He climbs mountains, literally and figuratively. Innovation is his field, his niche, his passion.

Enjoy this around-the-world of business walk and talk that wanders through garbage bins seeking bicycle parts, through selling flowers on a street corner, crafting guitars, Baptist ministry, teaching high school…then into invention and entrepreneurial business, flying his plane across oceans, and finally into learning Lean and now spreading word as a teacher and evangelist for Lean thinking, practices, and culture (hence, the globetrotting as a consultant, and the popular book 2 Second Lean). Ready to innovate? Here’s your inspiration…”

Paul Akers discuss this 2 Second Lean improvement for the day…fixing his drone for travel.

For more information on FastCap’s GlüBot Family, visit our website.

Patrick Molzahn, Cabinetmaking & Millwork Program Director at Madison Area Technical College, sent us this video showing how they implemented Lean!

Do we know how to have fun at work, or what???

Brian Way, of BP Way, sent us this video showing how Robert used FastCap’s SpeedTape in a creative way to keep his level attached to laminate.

We discussed this at our morning meeting. Do you agree?

Lukas demonstrates FastCap’s new storage bins called Kaizen Bins. They makes organizing your shop, garage, warehouse, or anywhere simple!

For more information on FastCap’s Kaizen Bin, visit our website.

Other FastCap products mentioned in this video:
Fastedge
Kaizen Boxes

Tyler walks Paul Akers through his lean improvement with the nuts and bolts storage area at FastCap.

For more information on FastCap’s Kaizen Boxes, go to this link.

For more information on FastCap’s Erasable Kaizen Labels, go to this link.

For more information on FastCap’s The 11th Finger, go to this link.

Paul Akers discusses how we do product development at FastCap. Keys are passion and curiosity!!!

For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

Paul Akers discusses his current favorite cameras:
iPhone 6 Plus
Sony Cyber shot BionZ X 50x
Sony 4K Video Camera (FDR-AX33)
DJI Phantom 3
Please Note: The FastCam has been discontinued.