Paul Akers discusses a once in a lifetime opportunity to have Ritsuo Shingo visit your organization for a couple days of discovery. With over 40 years’ experience in lean manufacturing, Ritsuo Shingo started working for Toyota in 1970 and later became the president of Toyota China and Hino Motors. Mr. Shingo currently heads the Institute of Management Improvement, a company started by his father, Dr. Shigeo Shingo, who was instrumental in the creative of the Toyota Production System. Mr. Ritsuo Shingo consults with high-level corporate executives worldwide on the subject of Lean leadership and has extended the commitment to Lean into the next generation of world-class Organizations.

Brian Way, of BP Way, sent us this video showing us how he fixed what bugged him. Do you let stupid things continue to irritate you instead of fixing them?

Paul Akers is at BI Group in Kazakhstan to work help them on their lean journey. For more information on the BI Group, visit their website.

Paul Akers works with Christiana, of Yellotools, to get a process down from 46 seconds to 10 seconds. For more information on Yellowtools, visit their website.

Paul Akers speaks with Ruben & Laura at Northwest Podiatric Laboratory about their lean transformation (changes from a push system to one piece flow). For more information on Northwest Podiatric Laboratory, visit their website.

Izzy is at it again. Meet Bob, the drill powered T-Rex. You’ve gotta watch this!

For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

“Toyota help feed Hurricane Sandy Victims with Toyota Production System = “the summation of many, many small, cheap improvements can have a big impact.” Make work Easier Smarter Safer #ESS for the workers…”

St. Bernard Project (SBP) and Toyota partnership made an elderly resident’s ravaged family home whole again after Hurricane Katrina.

Dave West, of Meadowview Construction, sent us this video showing how he uses the rail system on FastCap’s Best Fence to make it easier to discard his workplace trash.

For more information on FastCap’s Best Fence product line, visit our website.

Dave, of H&H Color Lab, sent us this video saying, “I thought I would update you on our journey. Our teams are busy with 3S each morning and are engaging pretty well. It is amazing how much trash, dirt, unused items, etc… that they are finding. We actually have a team member who wrote a short rap song/video. I have shared it below. I hope you enjoy.”

“We’ve been using two hands to pull tape for years! Thanks +FastCap for getting us started! Two weeks in and there’s already a movement happening at FireSprint!”