Are you a manager or a leader? We watched this video in our morning meeting!

At a recent conference, Paul Akers discovered Sue Keely who graphically recorded the entire conference on white boards posted around the room. It helps make the conference come alive and you are able to repeat and re-cast the vision over and over again using her artwork! Incredible!

Brian Way, or BP Way, sent us this video showing us his tricked out work bench. If you have a tight space for your shop (or even if you don’t), you’re gonna want to check out this video!!! Now that’s lean!

For more information on FastCap’s Speed Skate, go to this link.

In this video Ron Pereira revisits Paul Akers and the FastCap team at their new facility in Bellingham, Washington. This series is scheduled to be released in early September 2014. To see the entire episode, please visit this link.

Fernando Gonzalez sent us this video showing a fantastically simple yet effective way to view blueprints on a job site on a rolling stand. Now that is lean thinking!!!

We recieved this note from Brad McMahan at POET:

Just wanted to thank you for writing 2 Second Lean. I’ve read it twice and now I’m having my maintenance crew read it. Today we had some of our corporate people fly in to visit our plant in Cloverdale, IN. Our director of operations asked our maintenance clerk how she likes her new job and what kind of things has she been doing and learning. I had the biggest grin today when she mentioned in her discussion that she was “fixing what bugged her.” That phrase if very simple and very catchy. We are all working on ways to fix what bugs us. It is definitely a journey.

Here is a before and after picture of our maintenance office. The first picture was our first year of production, 3 years ago. Very chaotic and unorganized. As you can see some improvements have been made and we are a little more organized. I’m ready to take it one step further and take out the chairs and build some stand up desks on casters.

Glenn Bostock, at SnapCab, sent us this video after touring FastCap’s new Facility. What a great thanks you gift!!!

For more information on SnapCab, visit their website.

For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

Walters & Wolf sent us this video showing a great use of magnets to help save time (man power) with layouts.

For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

Fernando Gonzalez sent us this video showing a super lean way to make sure your FatBoy Pencil is always sharp! Now you can have lead that is super strong and super sharp!

For more information on this product, visit our website.

We watched this video during our morning meeting. Now that’s lean!!!

For more information on lean, visit 2 Second Lean.

If you want additional information, check out Scott Brusaw’s TEDxSacramento talk!

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