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Location: Perth , Western AustraliaCompany : Bartt...

2008-08-09T04:45:00.000-05:00

Location: Perth , Western Australia
Company : Bartter Enterprises
Role: LSS Black Belt,Develop CI into processes.
How long: 3 years 6S Green Belt and 6 months LSS Black Belt.
Biggest Challenge: Changing Workplace Culture

I think this Site is a great resource and library of experience , initiatives and best practice sharing.

Location: Bangalore, IndiaRole : Lean software con...

2008-07-16T00:21:00.000-05:00

Location: Bangalore, India
Role : Lean software consultant
Discovered lean via agile and lean software development
Biggest challenge: badly need some exposure in a lean software development environment
Thoughts: Lean was a lifechanging discovery for me, and I want to evangelize and use lean in all aspects of life, it fits well with my 80-20 philosophy as well

1) Location: Saitama Ken, Japan.2) Company- Semico...

2008-05-12T20:58:00.000-05:00

1) Location: Saitama Ken, Japan.
2) Company- Semiconductor, LCD manufacturing
3) Role- Internal lean consultant
4) Been learning/working with lean for 3 years.
5) Biggest challenge: getting the president, who hired me to learn and practice lean.
6) Thoughts: Great Blog, very informative. Do visit Japan sometime. its a great learning experience.

AlabamaLEAN Greenbelt for a global bioscience corp...

2008-04-02T00:52:00.000-05:00

Alabama

LEAN Greenbelt for a global bioscience corp.

Involved for 2 years and will be forever

Biggest Challenge: Providing culture change to create a continuous improvement environment.

Biggest Upside: LEAN makes sense to everyone.

1)Location: Auckland, New Zealand2)Company: Produc...

2008-03-15T05:02:00.000-05:00

1)Location: Auckland, New Zealand
2)Company: Productivity Solutions Limited
3)Role: Principal Consultant
4)Experience: Manufacturing and Supply Chain all rounder - have implemented a number of productivity improvement projects both in Manufacturing and Supply Chain.
Associate of CMI Consortium of ITO's (Industry Training Organisations) in NZ
Member of: Auckland Chamber of Commerce, NZ Production & Inventory Control Society, Employers and Manufacturers Association
5)Biggest Challenge: Convincing the senior management of businesses that they need to implement lean to be competitive locally and globally
6)Biggest Achievemnet - Doubled the productivity in less than 4 weeks in a fabrication busness using continuous flow concept
7)Services we offer: Lean Manufacturing, Lean Supply Chain & Distribution, Lean Office, Lean Healthcare and Business Integration Solutions
8)This site is great to share knowledge

1) Location: Dombühl, Germany2) Company: Clopay Pl...

2008-02-07T15:16:00.000-06:00

1) Location: Dombühl, Germany
2) Company: Clopay Plastics
3) Role: Plant Manager
4) How long you have been learning lean: 1.5 years
5) What is your biggest implementation challenge?
-balancing what the organization is capable of doing and digesting and not overloading the organization. Priorities.
6) What do you think of this site?
I started listening to the podcasts before this site, and after a number of them decided to look up the site. It is now on my links ribbon, and gets checked daily now.

1 - Portland, OR, USA2 - I'm an ultra-low key recr...

2008-02-06T15:45:00.000-06:00

1 - Portland, OR, USA

2 - I'm an ultra-low key recruiter who specializes in the IT & LEAN sectors. Surprise - it's a great time to be involved as an expert in either arena.

3 - As a recruiter, I work with regional/national clients when they need to hire IT or Lean experts.

4 - I've been learning "learning about" lean in fit's and spurt's for 3 years now as a recruiter. I wish the vulcan mind-meld were possible, then I'd have a chance at retaining more.

5 - I find this site insightful and exhaustively interesting. Kudo's. . .

1) Lodi / CA / USA2) Kyoho Mfg California / Tier 1...

2008-01-13T02:17:00.000-06:00

1) Lodi / CA / USA
2) Kyoho Mfg California / Tier 1 NUMMI supplier
3) Group Leader / TPS Kōhai
4) 3 years
5) Workforce buy-in
6) Just found the site.

-bZj

1 - Durham, NC, USA2 - Burt's Bees World Headquart...

2008-01-03T06:39:00.000-06:00

1 - Durham, NC, USA

2 - Burt's Bees World Headquarters,
Maker of the finest natural personal care products on the planet

3 - CI and IE Manager, Sensei to EVP

4 - I have over 12 years in lean

5 - Biggest challenge: operations management that haven't lived through a transformation...we could move much faster :(

6 - I love the site...keep the podcasts coming...thanks to Deborah Porto for telling me it was here. :>

If you want to consider a career in natural personal care, JSchmitzer@burtsbees.com.

Have an awesome 2008!

Location: Philadelphia, PACompany: coal miningRole...

2007-12-16T11:34:00.000-06:00

Location: Philadelphia, PA
Company: coal mining
Role: Owner
New to lean, but not new to Six Sigma

Challenge: restoring innovation to American industry.

Thoughts: No more PowerPoint presentations; no more IT boondoggle projects; no more leveraging, core competencies, hundred thousand foot views, takeaways and other consultantspeak. Interested only in getting back onto the linoleum to make something.

1) Reggio Emilia /Italy 2) Caterpillar 3) Buyer 4)...

2007-11-24T12:41:00.000-06:00

1) Reggio Emilia /Italy
2) Caterpillar
3) Buyer
4) Just Started :-)

Nice Blog

Location: Racine / Milwaukee, WI USACompany: N...

2007-11-21T11:17:00.000-06:00

Location: Racine / Milwaukee, WI USA
Company: Non-Profit Social Service & Consumer Goods Manufacturer
Role: Manager of Manufacturing Portion of Department
Learned about lean through business classes. Not much hands on experience.
Biggest Challenges: Lack of Resources, Aversion to Change, Company Culture, etc.

Cliff - thanks for saying hi. My original comment...

2007-09-28T07:40:00.000-05:00

Cliff - thanks for saying hi. My original comment is out of date, I now live in the DFW area. I'll have to try to check out your book sometime, but I don't work in the product dev space. Maybe one of my blog readers can do a review for us.

Hi Mark,I applaud your blog and your efforts in pr...

2007-09-28T01:55:00.000-05:00

Hi Mark,

I applaud your blog and your efforts in promoting Lean. My profile is very similar to yours, amd I am also based in the Phoenix area. My focus in terms of Lean implementation has been in the area of product development. Based on my work, I have authored two books on the subject. My most recent, entitled Accelerated Product Development, published by Productivity Press, outlines an approach of combining Lean and Six Sigma to achieve the goals of reducing product development cycle time, cost, and quality defects. I welcome everyone to critique this material and share thoughts related to the expansion of Lean implementation beyond factory walls.

Location: FloridaCompany: Medical device manufactu...

2007-09-20T19:07:00.000-05:00

Location: Florida

Company: Medical device manufacturer

Role: Manufacturing Supervisor

Biggest challenges include:
Culture change
Culture change
Culture change
and
Culture change

Location: Cincinnati, OHCompany: Lareg diversified...

2007-09-19T21:28:00.000-05:00

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Company: Lareg diversified multinational conglomerate

Role: Continuous Improvement/
Quality Engineer

Six Sigma Black Belt with 3 yrs of experience in process improvement.

Biggest challenges include:
- Leading culture change
- Driving Six Sigma Projects in traditional manufacturing mindset
- Managing teams without having direct authority over them

1) Location (city/state/country) - Aberdeen, SD, U...

2007-09-04T10:35:00.000-05:00

1) Location (city/state/country) - Aberdeen, SD, USA.
2) Company name / type of company (industry, size, etc.) - Hub City, Inc., Div of Regal-Beloit, Corp. Mechanical Drive Systems, 350 facility (10,000+ Corporate).
3) Your role in lean manufacturing (consultant, manager, engineer, etc.) - Lean Facilitator (Internal Consultant to various plants).
4) How long you have been learning lean - Since 2001 specifically, Cellular Manufacturing & Problem Solving since 1998.
5) What is your biggest implementation challenge? - Overcoming fears and traditional beliefs at all levels.
6) What do you think of this site? Any feedback or suggestions? - As always, excellent work Mark. Been viewing/posting on the site for around 1 year, figured it was about time to complete the "Who is visiting" page!

Great blog, Mark, thanks for your comment on my bl...

2007-08-31T22:46:00.000-05:00

Great blog, Mark, thanks for your comment on my blog. And great turnout on this survey, eh!

1. Richmond, VA, USA
2. Virginia Commonwealth University is a university of 30,000 students and John Tyler Community College is a community college about 20 miles south of Richmond.
3. Student, observer, intern (soon, hopefully), eventually entrepreneur and/or consultant
4. Just a few months...I started reading a biography of Fredrick W. Taylor this spring, so I've gone from there.
5. Not applicable (yet).
6. I'm into it but I'm not yet a frequent enough reader to have a strong opinion. The best part is being able to keep up on how news events affect or are affected by the Lean perspective

1) Location:Monroe, Michigan2) Company name / type...

2007-08-19T08:30:00.000-05:00

1) Location:
Monroe, Michigan
2) Company name / type of company:
Mainstream GS LLC / Consulting - Organizational Transformation via a Lean platform.
3) Your role in lean manufacturing:
Continuous Process Improvement Master Consultant
4) How long you have been learning lean:
20 years.
5) What is your biggest implementation challenge?
a. The comprehension and adaptation to Value Stream
b. Organizational Learning - Engagement at all levels (middle mgrs are frequently more of a struggle than top level mgrs).
c. Lean advocates/practitioners who know just enough to be dangerous. Gotta love the enthusiasm, energy, and action; but patience, observation, and understanding have to blend in.
d. Properly scoping the desired end state and incorporating a strategy of implementation.
e. Inadequate commitment to infrastructure supporting sustainment of the advances made during implementation.
6) What do you think of this site?
I appreciate what you are doing. Your post on going to GEMBA fits here because I consider blogging like going to GEMBA in the Lean industry. I agree with one of your readers (2005) about getting conversations going.
You can note my support for discussions in an entry I made on your "Error Proffing Challenge" post a few days ago as your first anonymous commentor and dwr@msgs.
Since the discussion stopped when I challenged some of the talk there I may have scared everyone away with the thought of a ittle bit of analysis, or they were turned off by my style, or that topic had run it's course, or d) all of the above.
In Lean, we all need a Sensei and we all need to be willing to learn and see ourselves as part of a bigger picture.
Just like the environments we "Lean", we never really arrive.

Keep up the nice work!

1) Location:Ann Arbor, Michigan / Taipei, Taiwan2)...

2007-07-25T03:24:00.000-05:00

1) Location:
Ann Arbor, Michigan / Taipei, Taiwan
2) Company name / type of company:
University of Michigan / Consumer goods
3) Your role in lean manufacturing:
Student / Business process re-engineering
4) How long you have been learning lean: 2 years.
5) What is your biggest implementation challenge?
Convincing people to buy-in to projects, getting the 'real' process from interviewing people when shadowing is not feasible.
6) What do you think of this site?
Great!

Sheffield/South Yorkshire/United KingdomThe Univer...

2007-05-24T03:20:00.000-05:00

Sheffield/South Yorkshire/United Kingdom

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing/Aerospace manufacturing, 60+ employees; We primarily work in the machining of titanium, nickel and inconel. We have reduced machining times more than 80% on titanium components.

Biggest implementation challenge: Industrial psychology - Convincing companies to adopt a new technique that is better than thier current method is very difficult.

It's great blog. Really help & support my activiti...

2007-05-19T02:14:00.000-05:00

It's great blog. Really help & support my activities.

Now i have been in 3 years working with TPM - Total Productive Management.

I am waiting for next podcast discussing about Toyota Talent.

Bima
TPM Education & Training Pillar Leader
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
Multi Bintang Indonesia Tbk.
Heineken Group of Companies

1) Newport, RI, USA2) U.S. Navy Lab3) Mechanical E...

2007-04-19T19:52:00.000-05:00

1) Newport, RI, USA
2) U.S. Navy Lab
3) Mechanical Engineer
4) 3 years
5) What is your biggest implementation challenge? - Getting everyone, from management down to the line engineer to see the value and applicability of Lean Manufacturing ideas to their work. I think I "get it," but it will take the leadership of management to pull everyone else into Lean practices.
6) I read this site every day through Google Reader. Good move in changing to the leanblog.org site, as blogspot is blocked at my lab.

1) Keller, TX, USA2) $3B industrial equipment comp...

2007-04-17T20:42:00.000-05:00

1) Keller, TX, USA
2) $3B industrial equipment company
3) Corporate MBB deploying Lean and Six Sigma
4) LSS for about 12 years
5) Normal stuff... knuckle heads
6) Rock on Mark!

Location: Prudence Island, RI USACompany: regional...

2007-04-15T14:31:00.000-05:00

Location: Prudence Island, RI USA
Company: regional industrial trades tabloid newspaper
Role: editorial and production
Biggest challenges include:
Keeping the readership informed about trends in manufacturing and finding resources to help them learn about and apply proven strategies to their own operations.

For years I've been running articles about the benefits of lean, listing lean classes and workshops in our events calendar and trawling the MEP sites for usful information. This blog brings the topic of lean to life in a unique and entertaining way. I intend to recommend it to our readers in our upcoming issue, because it makes you *want* to learn more about lean. Thank you for creating leanblog.org!