Paul Akers, of The American Innovator, moderates the first of a monthly Lean Round Table with the following lean fanatics:
Michael Althoff of Yellotools
Ashley Bailey from Klime-Ezee
Bruce Ennis from Be Quality
Glenn Bostock of SnapCab
Greg Glebe of Xylem Design
Loren Jones of Xylem Design
Nick Kocelj of Walters & Wolf
Ron Pereira of Gemba Academy
Paul Akers of FastCap

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Paul Akers demonstrated how FastCap employee saved time and effort emptying the trash.

Paul,
I’d like to show you our version of the morning meeting here at Hagemeyer. It has changed this site and is one of the driving forces in changing this company. I’m amazed at how much it has turned us around. I would also like to introduce you to Joseph Lines. Joseph was promoted to Lean Manager this year due to his outstanding performance with Lean and his ability to see the benefits when most of us were still struggling with this change for the company. He is the one responsible for introducing your 2 Second Lean system to our organization. I then took what he showed me with your success and introduced the morning meeting to our organization. In the last few months, Joseph and I have worked very closely to bring to our company what your mentoring has brought to us, which is that Lean is all about the people. Once we realized this, and now have shown the results of shifting to this Lean Culture and to this Growing People Culture, it is taking the company by storm. I think I speak for both of us when I say that we owe so much to you, and the lessons you have shown us. Joseph has created our own YouTube channel, Lean Your Machine – HNA, where we are starting to post our own videos, as well as links to others. It’s in its infancy stages, but we couldn’t agree with you more that making videos is a very powerful tool in showing Lean. Please take a look and let us know what you think. We look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks,
Scotty Wofford
Storeroom Manager
Hagemeyer North America
Fayetteville DuPont Plant

Chris Green, of Walters & Wolf, sent us this video showing their creative (lean) solution to spotting inventory that is stored up high on racks. Sometime the lean solution is a simple solution!

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Thomas Riner, of Fancy Hill Farms, sent us this video and said. “I also wanted you to know that you have inspired me to start a YouTube channel called Farming Outside The Box. It is a channel for documenting farming innovation, lean on the farm, and old school farming. Its in the very early stages but I’m excited about it.”

Love that lean can be applied anywhere. Thanks Thomas! Keep up the great work. We’ll be checking your channel periodically for innovative videos!!!

Paul Akers, of The American Innovator show, talks with Jon Cantin, from Perth Australia, who is a CNC (Computer Numeric Control) expert.

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Paul Akers gives a special greeting to a special lean team and the response is below.

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“The video was a huge hit and because of it more inmates in the blocks with my guys read your book. Some are even stopping by on their way to the other classes asking if they can borrow it to read so that’s cool. The Dept of Corr is doing a big lean event in February so I invited them to my classroom to see the progress we have made. We started in the bathroom like you said and marked the floor for the garbage barrels then marked for a table then on the table marked for the cleaner and paper towels. Now the guys know if there’s towels because it has a spot now. Lean is amazing, to me it’s about making things less stressful and these guys are dealing with stress especially around the holidays. So I marked their desks, chairs, safety glasses with a number so each person knows what’s theirs and not worrying about getting a good seat or a special seat. I incorporated a dictionary that the same number goes on and we even marked their desks with a rectangle for the dictionaries to go. We do a word of the day that they have to define making them one word smarter a day, then we discuss it. We also do stretching at the start of class but like you I started having the guys lead the stretching to become leaders.

Thank you very much again for all your help and know your book affected my life and in turn I’m trying to show the guys the benefits so it’s also affecting their lives all for the better. Thank you.” Jared

Paul Akers, of The American Innovator show, takes us along as he goes hiking to the Park Butte Fire Tower in the Cascade Mountain Range with the Boomers Hiking Club. He captured it all using FastCap’s iPole and FastCam (Action Camera) and DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+. Please Note: The FastCam has been discontinued.

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Paul Akers answers a question from Ben about FastCap’s Lean Workshop. Paul shows Ben how FastCap’s workshop is set up. For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

For more information on FastCap products mentioned in this video, so to these links:
FastPipe
Kaizen Foam
Long Nose Marker

Paul Akers demonstrates the eight waste using a recent shopping trip and resulting shaving story. You never know when lean will come in handy!!!

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