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Richard Houle
Partner
What was your first job?
A carpenter’s assistant working for my dad. I loved every minute of it!
How would your team describe you if you weren't around?
The detail guy, very reliable, and a strong sense of work/life balance
Bob Hahn
Partner
What is your hidden talent?
Artistic. I love sculpting; forging metal and glassware, like gates and vases.
How would your team describe you if you weren't around?
High energy, visionary and big picture thinker, and strategic
Big picture thinker, excellent negotiation skills, client focused, growth driven and thrives when facing new challenges.
Trevor Lukey
Partner
What is your hidden talent?
I can solve the Rubik’s cube in a minute and a half.
How would your team describe you if you weren't around?
Positive and a problem-solver. Tall.
Darlene Wright | CA
Principal
My celebrity crush is…
Brad Pitt….still!
How would your team describe you if you weren't around?
Easy going and personable.
Responsive, client-focused and fun to be around.
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Don’t Sacrifice Quality for Efficiency
Efficiency is a 2-sided sword. It’s easy to get infatuated with the bottom-line improvements that process cuts offer, but it’s all for naught if the quality of your product suffers. Cut processes too deeply, and quality is the first thing to take a hit. Poor-quality...
read moreWhere Are Your Manufacturing Bottlenecks?
Manufacturing a product, whether that’s a pick-up truck or a bar of soap, is a current of processes that happen one after the other. Ideally, the current flows like electricity. But what happens when one step stops the current? Or when multiple currents converge into...
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Creating a Change Team in Manufacturing
You see the ways your manufacturing business could change for the better. You can sense it like a change in air pressure. You know that your processes could be more efficient, and that more innovation would help you buffer supply disruptions and skill deficits. To...
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Real and False Urgency in Manufacturing
A culture of urgency is the fuel to drive Process Improvement forward. But when urgency breaks free of perspective, it becomes “busy-work”. And that can get dangerous on the shop floor. If you’ve come any distance down the “Lean Road”, you know that your sense of...
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Creating a Sense of Urgency in Manufacturing
Successful process improvement needs to be cultural, and urgency must be at the cultural heart. Whether or not your entire team is driven towards process improvement will decide if your organizational change will succeed or fail. Here’s how to build that culture of...
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Lean Leadership in Manufacturing
Manufacturing leadership can easily become about nothing but processes, logistics, safety, and efficiency. If it’s your daily routine to circulate from your office to the boardroom and back again, that needs to be disrupted. Change Leadership requires the leader’s...
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What Daily Process Improvement Looks Like in Manufacturing
Process Improvement is at its best when it doesn’t look like much. We often fall into the trap of needing expensive equipment or consultants to save money, and in the end it costs us money. Rule of thumb: real change needs to develop from inside. If you try to force...
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4 Ways Manufacturers can Start a Culture of Process Improvement
To get a winning hockey team you need to get started and be steady. Stay fixed on the long game and institute a multiyear process focused entirely on building a strong team culture. Turn individual stars into team contributors and support your approach by choosing metrics that measure the right things. It’s not so different than what you need to do on the manufacturing floor. Here are four ways you can start coaching your team toward a culture of process improvement.
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How to Reduce Deadly Waste in Manufacturing: Talent
When you Google the 8 Deadly Wastes, you’ll often find 7 of them. Historically, the focus has been on processing, whereas the 8th Waste focuses on the far more abstract, “People.” To those paying attention, this should be a Waste to...
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How to Reduce Deadly Waste in Manufacturing: Inventory
Do you feel comfortable? Are you sitting pretty just you can service any order that comes in, no matter what the size? Then you’re playing the dangerous game of Over-Inventory. Inventory is a tide. As is rises, your ship (the business) is buoyed higher and we stop...
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