Heading off to Glassbuild in Las Vegas this week. Look forward to seeing the folks from SoftTech as well as Emmegi. I’ll be on the floor Wednesday all day. Anyone else planning on going?If you are in Las Vegas for the show, stop by and check out the Harmon Hotel at the City Center. It’s the oval shaped building right on the Las Vegas strip. Our Las Vegas office just recently completed this project. Beautiful blue glass. You can’t miss it.
I was turned on to some books on Lean a couple of years ago and have been studying how it might be applied in our company. We just completed a book club on “The Toyota Way” with our Contractor on the Hospital out in San Francisco. Sutter Health has been sponsoring the classes. I signed up for a class at Stanford on Plan, Do, Check, Act. Classes start this month. I’ll post my progress.
Based on the Lean concepts, we’ve started some testing using smaller batches for our shop releases. V6 allows us to slice and dice our releases to match the customers needs in the field. This has reduced the amount of inventory and the time it takes to find parts for assembly for our unitized wall systems.
September 12, 2010
