It must be a management directive from the top down.
Creating a tool crib, kitting and set-up reduction was pitched to save cost and increase throughput. Working smarter not harder. We had an outside consultant run the Kaizen events and the results were impressive. We included this in our Business Plan for the year, we felt it was
that important.
We then had our Kaizen teams denonstrate to the whole company after they convinced management in order to get buy-in. The Production crew from the helpers to the supervisors were equally impressed. It was real easy going about making changes after that because everyone knew
why the changes were being made. They had
bought in.
We've only been doing it for a few months but our transition has been so seamless it's like we've always done it. That's the culture we want, "this is the right way, this is how we do things" as opposed to "we used to do this..."
