2 SECOND LEAN TOUR SERIES

Greater Ozarks Realty

Join AME and host Paul Akers for the next in our highly rated 2 Second Lean Tour Series. We'll take a virtual visit to Greater Ozarks Realty (GOR).

The company is noted for helping manufacturing and warehousing leaders create healthy working environments for their people. You'll hear how they do it while implementing 2 Second Lean principles in their own operations.

What you will see:

1. How employee-led morning meetings succeed without direct leadership involvement, using 2 Second Lean.

2. How to resuscitate your 2 Second Lean culture.

3. Introduction to the sort feedback loop (Secret Weapon).

4. Summary of GOR’s unique approach to 2 Second Lean in a non-manufacturing environment and some common misconceptions.

Cambridge Air Solutions

Join AME and host Paul Akers for the next in our highly rated 2 Second Lean Tour Series. We'll take a virtual visit to Cambridge Air Solutions in St. Louis.

The company is noted for helping manufacturing and warehousing leaders create healthy working environments for their people. You'll hear how they do it while implementing 2 Second lean principles in their own operations. For more than 50 years, Cambridge Air Solutions has been committed to enriching the lives of its people, representatives, customers and suppliers through the design, manufacture and application of commercial and industrial space heating, ventilation (make-up air) and evaporative cooling products. The company helps manufacturers, distribution business owners and operators, facility managers, design engineers and mechanical contractors create better indoor working environments through even temperatures and improved Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, sports facilities and other high-bay spaces. cambridgeair.com

Sticky RX

Join AME's 2 Second Lean Tour Series with host Paul Akers as we visit Sticky RX.

On April 1, 2019 Sticky RX began its lean journey after discovering Paul Akers on YouTube. It became very clear that the company culture was weak and needed serious change. Two and a half years later the culture is transformed and thousands of improvements have been made. While the team is small, it's a total participation culture. The adoption of 2 Second Lean allowed Sticky RX to develop as individuals and develop a culture that is not far from Toyota in Japan.

Lumen Electronics

Your 8 Wastes may not be Toyota's.

Take a virtual tour of Lumen Electronics and experience the company’s 2 Second Lean philosophy first hand. You’ll experience 2 Second Lean for product development and the quality lever concept. You’ll see how Lumens’ 8 wastes differ from Toyota’s and how Lumen uses standard operating procedures — a lean process to easily develop, manage and deploy at scale without additional resources.

The Closet Doctor

On this AME 2 Second Lean tour, you will gain insights into how The Closet Doctor is managed.

The focus will be how people are inspired and developed so that the organization can excel. You will see how the company has emphasized a "wits are above wallets" philosophy and how the value adding core is protected. Learn how this enterprise avoided $30,000 in capital purchases and reduced their physical footprint by 50% in 3½ weeks.

County Battery, Part 2

Watch part 2 of AME's 2 Second Lean Tour of County Battery with host Paul Akers.

You will gain insights into how County Battery is managed. The focus is on how people are inspired and developed so that the organization can excel. You will learn how the company's unique and standardized personal development system has transformed County Battery to enable all staff to achieve results.

County Battery, Part 1

Watch part 1 of AME's 2 Second Lean Tour of County Battery with host Paul Akers.

You will gain insights into how County Battery is managed. The focus is on how people are inspired and developed so that the organization can excel. You will learn how the company's unique and standardized personal development system has transformed County Battery to enable all staff to achieve results.

Prestige Woodworks (Plus Bonus Morning Meeting!)

Visit Prestige Woodworks to see the company's creative use of space and how it is standardizing custom. The shop is just shy of 1,200 square feet, and every job the company does is custom from start to finish. This tour will show you how they do what they can with the space they have and how they have been working hard to create “standard processes” for custom creations. Plus stick around to the end of the video for an exclusive look at the importance of morning meetings for Prestige Woodworks!

Best Damn Doors

Best Damn Doors makes and sells medium-density fiberboard (MDF) cabinet doors directly to its customers (friends, partners and fellow problem solvers) without the middleman. From its St. Thomas, Ontario location, the company has developed products and processes that improve quality, speed and service to the point of producing doors two times faster than before. Combine this with a team of process engineers committed to continuous improvement and a never-ending desire to develop and grow its people, and there is never a dull moment! Best Damn Doors produces and sells MDF cabinet doors directly for end customer use without the middleman of general contractors. Working closely with its customers, Best Damn Doors quickly deliver high quality cabinet doors all while maintaining a 2 Second Lean culture of continuous improvement driven by the never ending desire to develop and grow its people first. https://www.bestdamndoors.ca

Yellotools

Go to the gemba with founder and owner Michael Althoff and see how a small company survives and thrives in these times. In this 2 Second Lean tour, you'll see an organization with core embedded beliefs of lean thinking, lean acting and lean living and take away ideas to grow your business. Gain insights into how this business is managed. See how its people are inspired and developed so that the organization can excel. This virtual tour will spotlight 3S training and grow people matrix continuous improvement results.

Seating Matters

This event will give you insight into how Seating Matters is managed. Like all 2 Second Lean Virtual Tours, we will focus on how people are inspired and developed so the organization can excel. We will shine our spotlight on how the concept of value versus non-value is utilized, and explore pull systems at Seating Matters — both Kanban and a Two Bin Stock System.