Lean manufacturing

So I started as an assembler, from there progressed into a lean facilitator, to a senior lean facilitator, to a lead, then from there to a lead consultant.

So today we try to drive the system and Gemba Academy has been part of that journey in making that become successful.

I'll be wrapping up my Master Black Belt shortly as part of the journey to becoming one of the Lean experts.

And when it comes to Lean, I'm crazy about Lean.

Yeah.

I can speak about Lean even when I'm sleeping.

Oh, that's great.

That's great.

And then we've done some visuals on the side.

With the help of Lean Tech earlier last year.

And I'll just zoom in so people can just see, like, this is just a floor plan.

Nothing sacred here.

And it is my pleasure to have Samer on the show.

We have been good friends, bumping into each other.

I feel like at every single Lean Construction Institute event.

Going back over a decade, and the first time that you and I had a quality conversation, and we were having coffee and tea with the one and only Dan Fauché.

Yeah, I think it's a good place to start.

So if we go back about 10 years, 11 years now, actually, I came across something on YouTube called Lean Manufacturing.

I'd never heard of it before.

I didn't know what it was.

I wasn't eating.

I wasn't sleeping.

I was just going through a really tough time and I came across something called Lean on YouTube and just like that everything changed and I got so passionate about this thing called Lean Manufacturing and we started implementing that into our business about 11 years ago and I just had a passion for it.

It was just like this thing that I wish somebody had told me 10 years before and Because before finding out about Lean everything was a struggle and since doing Lean everything just got simpler and easier every day.

You know, I'll talk about a little bit about my background, as you know, from my bio, you know, I've been in manufacturing for a while in Lean Six Sigma.

And, you know, I look at, you know, Lean Systems, you know, look at organizations that have good SOPs, they got accurate data, and they still fail because leader, I call it biology, overrides the operating system.

Can you give us a little bit more, explain the reason for that failure?

Meaning, why do you observe that across different systems and organizations? Yes.

So back in 2003, you know, courtesy of the United States Navy on board the USS Kitty Hawk, I was introduced to what's called Airspeed.

Airspeed is the Navy's version of, you know, Lean and Six Sigma application back then.

And, you know, at first, you know, a lot of people did not want to go to do this.

So it was voluntold.

And it turns out that I was sitting in this class and I was thinking to myself, they are paying me to come and learn this stuff? This is awesome.

All right.

Now, mind you, my first introduction to the world of Lean Six Sigma was a black belt class.

You're walking into a black belt class.

I'm Ritchie and I'm happy to have another episode from the TestCon 5 conference from Mauritius.

My guest today was Nirmala Sanechur and we talked about lean management and what it brings to quality.

Why we rush to solutions instead of understanding the problem, what waste really means in a software project and how you solve a problem once and for all.

That all you hear now in this episode.

me.

That's really good.

And you had also a speech here about lean management.

Yes.

Welcome to the Lean Focus podcast, where we bring you inspiring stories of lean transformation with your host, Damon Baker.

Peter, welcome to the Lean Focus podcast.

I've really been looking forward to this conversation.

Your story is really unique because unlike many transformations that we've discussed on this podcast, Radiometer wasn't actually struggling when Danaher acquired it.

And at Danaher, if that was a concept, I said, all right, that sounds good.

I'm going to give it a chance.

Was there skepticism inside of Radiometer that Lean or DBS could work in this kind of environment? Absolutely.

Quite a bit.