Stories of Leadership, Lean, and Learning
The research and development team created a product that they thought would change the ceiling grid market. The bad news is that it was hard to produce and no one bought it. The good news is that it lead to future innovations that the market loved.
Read MoreI was asked to co-facilitate a regional cost-reduction session with my Armstrong mentor, Fred, in Europe. He had facilitated many of these sessions over the years with great success. I was excited for the opportunity to work with him and tour around countries I wasn’t familiar with.
Read MoreI started my career as an industrial engineer for Thomasville Furniture in North Carolina. My initial responsibilities included warehouse barcoding support and veneer plant projects. For the warehouse, I had to learn how barcodes were used to inventory, ship, and receive finished furniture from the various plants in the network. In the veneer plant, I was to conduct time and work studies and also identify improvement projects.
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