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Like a Pro

One of our team members was shy and reserved and didn't want to present during the report out. We were able to convince him and he was so passionate about our improvements, the audience was inspired.

Kaizen Success Stories, leadership, Lean, Learning, OperationsAdam LawrenceApril 25, 2024Process Improvement Partners LLCteamwork, Kaizen, lean, Wheel of Sustainability

Perfection Isn't Always a Good Idea

Perfection Isn't Always a Good Idea

We brought robots into our dining room table factory, thinking that they could make a much better looking and consistent product than we could by hand. They succeeded, only to be rejected by our customers.

Learning, Lean, Operations, leadership, Kaizen Success Stories, Customer focusAdam LawrenceApril 11, 2024Process Improvement Partners LLCcustomer focus, Voice of the Customer, leadership commitment

Five Lessons from my First Five Years in Business

Five Lessons from my First Five Years in Business

Customer focus, Innovation, Kaizen Success Stories, Learning, Lean, Services, OperationsAdam LawrenceFebruary 7, 2024Process Improvement Partners LLCLeadership, Lean, Wheel of Sustainability

Scripting Changeovers Leads to Consistent Performance

Scripting Changeovers Leads to Consistent Performance

Operations, Kaizen Success Stories, LeanAdam LawrenceJanuary 10, 2024Process Improvement Partners LLCChangeover reduction, teamwork, lean

Weld it in Place to Sustain it

Weld it in Place to Sustain it

Operations, Services, Lean, Kaizen Success StoriesAdam LawrenceNovember 15, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCReliability, Teamwork, Lean

Preventing Failures Leads to Success

Preventing Failures Leads to Success

Kaizen Success Stories, Innovation, Lean, OperationsAdam LawrenceOctober 4, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCFMEA, Kaizen, Teamwork

Plant Reliability Rollout - the Story of Mobile

Plant Reliability Rollout - the Story of Mobile

Operations, Lean, leadershipAdam LawrenceSeptember 20, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCReliability, Respect for people, leadership commitment

Moving Mountains ... of Paint

Moving Mountains ... of Paint

Operations, Kaizen Success Stories, LeanAdam LawrenceSeptember 6, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCReliability, teamwork, lean

Be Careful What You Ask For

Be Careful What You Ask For

Kaizen Success Stories, leadership, Lean, OperationsAdam LawrenceAugust 9, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCLeadership commitment, reliability, teamwork

Sometimes You Have to Let Things Go

Sometimes You Have to Let Things Go

Kaizen Success Stories, Operations, leadershipAdam LawrenceJuly 26, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCAlignment, Accountability

Raise Your Standards and Take Ownership

Raise Your Standards and Take Ownership

Kaizen Success Stories, Customer focus, OperationsAdam LawrenceJuly 12, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCteamwork, leadership commitment, Wheel of Sustainability

Change Your Perspective

Change Your Perspective

Kaizen Success Stories, leadership, OperationsAdam LawrenceJune 14, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCleadership commitment

Stop and Smell the Roses

Stop and Smell the Roses

leadership, Kaizen Success Stories, OperationsAdam LawrenceMay 3, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCReliability, Leadership, Alignment

Sometimes the Right Choice isn't the Convenient One

Sometimes the Right Choice isn't the Convenient One

Kaizen Success Stories, Learning, OperationsAdam LawrenceApril 19, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCLeadership, Problem solving

Pick it Up and Move it

Pick it Up and Move it

Kaizen Success Stories, Lean, Innovation, OperationsAdam LawrenceApril 5, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCKaizen, teamwork, leadership commitment

Knowing Your Product a Bit too Well

Knowing Your Product a Bit too Well

Kaizen Success Stories, Customer focus, Learning, OperationsAdam LawrenceJanuary 11, 2023Process Improvement Partners LLCQuality, leadership commitment

If you can't stand the heat get out!

If you can't stand the heat get out!

Kaizen Success Stories, Operations, Learning, leadershipAdam LawrenceOctober 19, 2022Process Improvement Partners LLCTeamwork, Safety, Accountability

Go With the Flow

Go With the Flow

Kaizen Success Stories, Lean, OperationsAdam LawrenceJuly 27, 2022Process Improvement Partners LLCKaizen, 5S, continuous improvement

Saving is not Saving

Saving is not Saving

leadership, Kaizen Success Stories, OperationsAdam LawrenceMay 18, 2022Process Improvement Partners LLCReliability, Teamwork, Kaizen

Little Things Mean a Lot

Little Things Mean a Lot

Kaizen Success Stories, Operations, LeanAdam LawrenceMay 4, 2022Process Improvement Partners LLCReliability, Teamwork, Kaizen