Onboarding: Confessions of a Plant Engineer

My Interview with Gary Goodluck

I had the opportunity to interview a plant Chemical Engineer recently. For the sake of anonymity I'll call ...

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How to Launch Lean Manufacturing

The Lean ROIĀ 

Lean plants are safer, produce higher quality products, ship product on-time and produce at lower costs than non-lean plants....

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Why Do Some Departments Just Perform Better?

Why do some departments perform better? When you walk around to the different departments within your manufacturing plant or your business a...

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Consider Adding Cross-Training Positions

Consider staffing positions that I call a cross-training positions. The idea of having a specific cross-training role is a concept that I ad...

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How to Cross-Train Employees
Cross-training is when you train different employees on a variety of processes so that when you have a call-out or someoneā€™s taking vacation...
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The WELSE Cycle of Leadership Development

Do you know what a duffer is? If you have ever hit a golf ball even once in your life, you know what Iā€™m talking about. A duffer is essentia...

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Video Based Learning is Superior

Did you know that YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world? Of course, google is number one. But at the top of every google sea...

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