I’m pleased to announce that we now have over 1000 improvement videos on our Walters & Wolf Channel. These videos represent the small incremental improvements that we are all working on at Walters & Wolf. Our goal from last year’s planning meeting was to get everyone in the company into a lean class. We are using the Paul Akers’ book “2 Second Lean” as the introduction to lean for our employees. In his latest version of the book, he mentions the idea of using videos to document the “before and after” of the improvements our employees make. We adopted this idea and each employee is asked to make a video each week.
This Kaizen process has helped all of us start to see the waste around us. In addition, by watching the videos, you get ideas on ways to improve your work or home life. Some videos are simple 5S ideas in the home or workplace. Some of the videos are tips on how to use iPhone apps or software at the office. Some of the videos are actual changes to our workflow or improvements to a process at work. But all of the videos start to show the creativity that is inherent in all of our employees.
So I’d like to say congratulations to all the people at the office who are making this process possible. Since we just started our classes with the field and the shop, I know this process is only going to get better. It’s an exciting time at our company and the things we are learning and doing together make it a great time to be in our industry.
I’ll keep you posted on our progress!
