I highly recommend this book: Made-To-Order Lean: Excelling in a High Mix, Low Volume Environment. I worked with Greg Lane in Hungary some years ago on a project which is amongst my most treasured and inspiring projects to date
Again – thank you very much for the three nice days together with you at Kvist mfg. It was very interesting and inspiring for me. I wish that I have meet you 10 years ago. It would have saved me for a lot of self-studying and errors in trying to do something.
Would like to sincerely thank you and Enterprise Connect for organising Greg Lane & Neil Trivedi to speak at Engineers Australia last night. I have received fantastic feedback for both of the speakers and it’s an event that SA manufacturing industry has been long waiting for.
About Greg Lane
High Mix – Low Volume Team Leader
Supporting worldwide leadership teams in 32 countries for 20+ years, from fortune 500‘s to Small & Medium sized organizations. Helping to pragmatically reach day to day and break through objectives by introducing proven methodologies to deal with the ’soft’ as well as tactical issues. Always ultimately focused on bottom line improvements.
Written 3 guidebooks and published in many technical medias.
Specialized support for high mix, high variation, job shop organizations in profitability adapting lean, based on buying and transforming his own company.
See more: http://www.honsha.org/index.php/our-team/
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I can not tell you how appreciative I am for your tutelage this week. I feel fortunate to have had exposure to your knowledge and I am looking forward to working with you in the future!
Thank you.
I wanted to let you know that I very much enjoyed Greg’s class and the conversation. As I was reading your book I kept saying to myself that I wished I got to work there with you and participated in your thinking process. Again, Many Thanks
Thanks again for your help this week. I believe we have a very good understanding of how we can make significant improvements building on what we have already done at both companies. Some progress to report over at Diamond Composite Structures. We are starting to see some real benefits of the production boards / associating time with work & scheduling, etc.
I thought you’d like the feedback that our CEO is liking the results we are starting to see out of our VSM training. We have our Board meeting next Tuesday. We’d like to incorporate these themes into our visual aids to them. Thanks for your help.
The scheduling and planning methods are going well. The teams have developed systems that are working for each shop, and most have effective feedback loops for capturing deviations and their root cause. We are also deploying waste capture/quantification and improvement, and are making it part of everyone’s objectives. We are using the skills matrix as you taught us, and have developed very accurate tracking of lead times in total and by process so that we can attack lead time as one of our KPI’s to improve. Basically, the things you’ve already taught us are working well.
Just want to thank you for the last couple of days in Denmark. I did learn a lot of things, and I got confirmed that all the LEAN work I have done the last two years is done the way you explained the last 3 days. I really enjoy a good training session when the teachers is well prepared, and most important if the teacher is inspiring – and I really think you where both. So I bring a lot of confidence back home to RAIS
I have received fantastic feedback for both of the speakers and it’s an event that SA manufacturing industry has been long waiting for.
I highly recommend this book: Made-To-Order Lean: Excelling in a High Mix, Low Volume Environment. I worked with Greg Lane in Hungary some years ago on a project which is amongst my most treasured and inspiring projects to date
Again – thank you very much for the three nice days together with you at Kvist mfg. It was very interesting and inspiring for me. I wish that I have meet you 10 years ago. It would have saved me for a lot of self-studying and errors in trying to do something.
I think the training session went very well. You helped us with some things that normal lean doesn’t take into account. Duane said that some of the guys were really excited about what they had learned. Its so important for me to see some of these guys start to see with lean eyes. It really feels like its starting to happen. For me I learned how to synthesize lean into some very simple concepts that work in any environment.
The book is an easy read. This maintains the story feel which slightly reminds me of The Goal. If you want a starting point for a lean manufacturing job shop, I recommend reading Mr. Lean Buys & Transforms a Manufacturing Company.
My name is Steve West and I am Operations Manager for Adcor Industries Inc., a Baltimore based “Make to Order” manufacturing facility. I’ve been interested in learning to apply Lean practices in our organization for some time now, but have been discouraged due to my inability to find any genuinely helpful information related to “low volume, high mix” operations like ours. Then I found “Mr. Lean Buys and Transforms a Manufacturing Company”. The book led me to Low Volume Lean Center, and behold…..genuine help with information based on real life experiences in applying Lean in a Job Shop environment!
The 2013 Wiring Harness Manufacturers Association (WHMA) Annual Conference set a record for attendance. The keynote speaker, Greg Lane of Low Volume Lean was a huge hit. His two topics were: “Don’t Limit Your Improvement to Manufacturing” and “Without a Clearly Deployed Strategy, You Will Never Reach Breakthrough Objectives” seemed to keep everyone’s attention.
I just wanted to give you some feedback. It was great; I thought it was relevant and really well presented. I must admit I wasn’t looking forward to it at all …. The thing that really surprised me was the session on Lean Management with Greg. I could only keep thinking about how Lean and its relationship with manufacturing had nothing to do with tourism. How wrong was I? Greg was interesting and entertaining for me and eventually even for the experienced manufacturing BA’s…. Greg was excellent in maneuvering the Lean principals away from manufacturing and demonstrating how they apply across all industry, including tourism. By the end of the event I could clearly see, that by a little tweaking of the presentation and changing some of the terminology how the tourism sector would really gain from this initiative.
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