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Continual improvement process

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Sep 14, 2026

Keith NorrisHOST
0:48
Welcome to KPI Fireside.
Keith NorrisHOST
0:51
Our mission is simple, to improve companies and to improve careers through continuous improvement.
Keith NorrisHOST
0:57
In every episode, we explore the spark, the moment, the mindset, or the method that ignites real change.
Keith NorrisHOST
1:05
Whether you're just starting out or leveling up, you'll find the insights and inspiration to fuel your next improvement.
Keith NorrisHOST
1:16
Welcome back to KPI Fireside, a continuous improvement podcast.
Keith NorrisHOST
1:20
I am your host, Keith Norris.
Keith NorrisHOST
1:23
Our guest today is Ram Sukumar.
Keith NorrisHOST
1:26
Ram is the Director of Continuous Improvement for Hexpole Compounding Americas, where he's responsible for driving the operational excellence across 13 manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Mexico.
Rainer KarcherHOST
38:39
Na klar.
Katja NettesheimGUEST
38:40
Ja, und damit bist du mit dieser KVP-Logik, ja, Continual Improvement Verbesserungsprozess, bist du ein wandelnder Vorwurf.
Katja NettesheimGUEST
38:47
Und das, ähm, führt zu Friktion im, in der Beziehung, ähm, oder Friktion im System.
Katja NettesheimGUEST
38:55
Ähm, dann tatsächlich, ähm, überf, also wenn ich also auf meine Coachees gucke, die überfordern sich sehr, weil sie eben alle Dimensionen, die die Gesellschaft an sie herankarrt an möglichen Feldern für Leistung, s..., sie ziehen sich diesen Schuh an, sie nehmen sich dieser Dimension an und wollen ihr gerecht werden und sagen eben nicht: „Ganz ehrlich, das ist nicht mein Bereich, das mach ich einfach nicht." Also ich sehe Frauen, die natürlich supergut im Beruf sein wollen.
Octavia Gray-EssexMODERATOR
43:28
We don't really make it through that whole cycle before we start over.
Octavia Gray-EssexMODERATOR
43:32
And again, that being said, engaging in a continuous improvement by evaluating the progress, identifying successes and adjusting where needed, because clarity creates coherence and coherence makes that sustained action possible.
Octavia Gray-EssexMODERATOR
43:49
And so we have spent today talking about what that requires from the system level that actually creates the conditions and then the classroom level where we see that played out.
Octavia Gray-EssexMODERATOR
44:00
And so now I'd like to turn it over to Jesse Strobin to share how that same idea of connection and coherence is actually shaping Lexia's work.
Hanna BauerGUEST
11:56
The burnout, doing too many things.
Hanna BauerGUEST
11:59
Actually, when the pressure hits and misalignment, in Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement, we have what we call the eight wastes.
Hanna BauerGUEST
12:06
So a lot of the waste is like the over, the over something.
Hanna BauerGUEST
12:09
So we start overproducing, over processing.
Brooks WilliamsGUEST
9:08
We now have two and a half people in our municipal court, and we collect over $2.5 million a year.
Brooks WilliamsGUEST
9:14
So that gives you an idea of what efficiency and process improvement can do.
Brooks WilliamsGUEST
9:19
You can reduce your staff and increase your output, but when I got there, what I had to do was look at my staff, see who was capable of going on the journey that I knew we were going to have to go on.
Brooks WilliamsGUEST
9:27
And in a small town, that's difficult because a lot of the staff come from the small town.
Matt SimsHOST
0:00
Welcome along to the Eversaleen podcast.
Matt SimsHOST
0:02
I'm Matt Sims, and this is where we get into the real stuff that drive great leadership, high performance, and a thriving culture of continuous improvement.
Matt SimsHOST
0:11
I chat openly and honestly with people who've been there and done it.
Matt SimsHOST
0:14
The kind of leaders who create real impact, not just in numbers, but in the way their teams think, feel, and perform.
Matt SimsHOST
1:22
We've currently got 130 members, which is just mind blowing.
Matt SimsHOST
1:27
Really pleased with that.
Matt SimsHOST
1:28
And the whole purpose of creating the group was to create a LinkedIn community for UK folk that are practicing CI or working within organizations that are doing continuous improvement or chasing high performance.
Matt SimsHOST
1:41
And what we found there was a gap we couldn't find anywhere that was heavily advertised, easy to find or hidden under a rock even that gave us an opportunity to mix with other people on LinkedIn that are doing similar roles and sharing similar experiences.
Andrew KoenigGUEST
6:16
We have a very strong operational mindset.
Andrew KoenigGUEST
6:18
We're a continuous improvement organization.
Andrew KoenigGUEST
6:20
We have standards.
Andrew KoenigGUEST
6:21
We have standards.

19 MINS LATER

Andrew KoenigGUEST
25:26
I mean, I was very blessed to learn from Toyota about their Toyota production system when I was in college.
Andrew KoenigGUEST
25:33
I went and visited them during my spring break in Japan.
Andrew KoenigGUEST
25:37
And they live by this philosophy called the Toyota production system, which it is really a continuous improvement methodology.
Andrew KoenigGUEST
25:46
I wished the world would learn from Toyota and that continuous improvement methodology to build better organizations, philanthropic organizations, hospitals.
Maxine WoodGUEST
16:02
It's been really interesting.
Maxine WoodGUEST
16:03
So the organisation delivers Yellow Belt, which is not an apprenticeship, and then moved into delivering the Level 4 Improvement Practitioner, which is the Green Belt, which unfortunately has just been defunded.
Maxine WoodGUEST
16:16
So...
Matt SimsHOST
16:18
i saw that
Mike GerhartGUEST
17:29
If you're not, you're going to have a problem staying in business in today's landscape.
Mike GerhartGUEST
17:34
So, I mean, if your brewery is not, you know, it doesn't have a continuous improvement mindset, you're losing the game, right? So it's like, even if you're not up against it to Garrett's point, you know, can we shave cycle times? Can we, you know, lower our losses? Can we boost our brew house efficiency? Can we run higher operating efficiencies on our packaging equipment? If you're not, you should, you should be looking at that stuff.
Mike GerhartGUEST
18:02
Even if you have empty tanks and you're, you're not up against your capacity, that's, that's kind of, uh, in today's climate, you know, you should be thinking that in the worst of times and the best of times, frankly.
John BriceHOST
18:16
What are the most frequent spatial or structural surprises brewers encounter when fitting used equipment into an existing layout?
James FieldPANELIST
16:10
But I guess to the point you were making, Vaughan, there is so much behind the scenes that goes into model development.
James FieldPANELIST
16:15
And even in our current model range now around material selection testing and certification testing in both the fea which is finite element analysis perspective all of our suspension all of our chassis are engineer certified by a qualified and certified engineer by the government here in australia as well as real world testing a real life testing and in particular you three gentlemen probably do a lot of that heavy lifting still within the business and all of that stuff you feed back into our teams for continuous improvement but to the to the point where our suspension arms our chassis we are sourcing steel from places that other factories don't even know exist from reputable suppliers that have the correct certification we have the mill certificates for everything we do even to the point where our safety chains we are batch testing them in australia for every batch so we go the extra mile because we want to be able to stand by our product from the very very start so When we're doing the chassis design, full off-road is a no-brainer for us.
James FieldPANELIST
17:17
We have to be able to do full off-road for our off-road product.
James FieldPANELIST
17:20
We're certifying it to that.

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