Video Kaizen Success Stories
See Real Manufacturing Results. One Kaizen at a Time.
Watch Adam Lawrence share the stories, strategies, and breakthroughs behind real Kaizen transformations.
Treat People with Respect
Sitting on the porch drinking lemonade with the property owner, I realized how much my manager truly cared for her and wanted to protect her interests.
True Voice of the Customer
We scheduled live furniture deliveries to test our improvements and the reaction of our customers was fantastic.
Preventing Failures Leads to Success
Using Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) to help us manage the project led to breakthrough results.
Plant Reliability Rollout - the Story of Mobile
I knew I had to do a better job protecting the plant managers and driving the cultural transformation.
Moving Mountains ... of Paint
Walking the shop floor (Gemba) showed us why the tiles were rotating in the paint booth. Now we knew what we had to do to solve the problem.
Visibility Equals Accountability
Taking our meetings out of the conference room and onto the shop floor (Gemba) raised our game and drove results immediately
Be Careful What You Ask For
My words came back to haunt me after an extremely challenging week.
Gemba in the Big City
We learned so much from going to our customers' work sites in New York City.
Why Would You Treat People That Way?
The company we were visiting was known for their focus on safety. Why were they allowing people to take undue risk in a particular job?
Pick it Up and Move it
In order to make a significant impact on performance, we had to move critical equipment to a new location and get buy-in from the employees.
Even the Weather Couldn't Beat the Team
With an impending ice storm coming, would we get enough team members to test our new process?
Go With the Flow
An electronics testing lab sees breakthrough improvement through simple changes.
Little Things Mean a Lot
Small adjustments to levelness, squaring, and centering raised line performance drastically.
Thomasville's Frame Nailers
By upgrading existing technology, we were able to reduce effort and improve quality.
From Tool Boxes to Tool Stations
By eliminating huge amounts of movement, the team cut the changeover time by almost 90%.