Posts by Torrence Smith

Forward this email to a friend: http://us4.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=686d17e79aeff2086db1a53f8&id=06005b163f&e=[UNIQID] Like most make to order factories, we had problems: with measurement, on time shipments, and meeting schedule. The facility was the size of a football field. Over four hundred skilled and semi-skilled employees scampered between eleven assembly lines, packed side by side under one roof, barely keeping pace with…

It’s been a little bit since we talked, hasn’t it? Well, we’ve got a few minutes before the shift starts. Let me tell you a story. I started keeping a production notebook in 2012. I did everything wrong. It was too small. No index. I left meetings without noting key ideas. I failed to record…