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Chuck Knabusch

Sep 29, 2026

30:33
How about you, Chuck? What's created the most momentum for you?
30:38
Well, I, I think a lot of it was when I was working with a, a $20 million furniture, uh, company.
30:46
And I was just, they had invited me in to kind of look around.
30:51
Their idea is they wanted to go lean.
30:53
They didn't have that defined, but they wanted to go lean.
30:56
So I went in the, and the owner was taking me out on the, the production floor, and he introduces me to, um- I, I can't remember the title, if it was chief operating officer, senior vice president of manufacturing, whatever the gentleman's title was, and he's pushing a cart of materials from one spot into one of their work cells.
31:15
And I'm like, "That's interesting." So after, you know, we exchanged names and all that, it's like, "Okay, what are you gonna do next?" And he's like, "Well, I'm gonna see if any, any other, uh, cell needs materials." And I'm thinking to myself, to have a COO moving materials has gotta be the most expensive material movement of that company, and wouldn't the value that he should be providing, wouldn't that be more like, you know, saying, "Okay, why do we have to move the materials?" You know, was it a visibility thing? The material handling crew didn't know it.

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42:06
Chuck, how about you? Most common piece of advice that you tend to give or your best, or your best tip, and then how do we connect?

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