At Ideon we call Lean FITT, which stands for Finding Innovation Through Teamwork. This is a short presentation on our journey that started in 2010.

1. Get FITT with
Mike Nunn
Operations Team Leader
Lean Blackbelt Certified

2. Ideon’s Lean Journey Begins
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3. Why Lean?
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4. Where is Ideon at in our Journey?
• Finding Innovation Through Teamwork
• Two Greenbelts (one is full-time C.I.)
• Team Leaders to be Greenbelt Certified
• FITT 101 for all new Team Members
• Regular FITT training done on Lean tools
• GOAL: All team members THINKING
FITT, challenging the way we do
things, remove waste and drive
towards continuous improvement
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5. Some Examples
of Completed
Kaizen Projects
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6. Office Supply Room 5S
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7. Server Room 5S
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8. First Aid Room 5S
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9. Cleanliness
Broom boards
like this one
are placed
throughout
the
Production
floor. Make
cleaning easy
and part of
everyday
work.
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10. Production Supplies Kanban
Masking tape is used to
attach our print plates to
the print drums on our
Flexo-Folder-Gluers.
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11. Production Supplies Kanban
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12. Printing Ink Kaizen (Before)
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13. Printing Ink Kaizen (After)
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14. Printing Ink Kaizen (After)
All inks located at press are on Kanban
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15. Other Applications of Lean at Ideon...
• FITT Health Checks
• Built 5 Whys into our NCR process
• Process ownership
• Value Stream Mapping (electronic)
• Daily morning huddle for the Office,
Forklift & Production Teams
• KPI: Office, Production & Shipping
• Daily office Hansei at end of the day
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16. Challenges We’ve Faced
• Time... Work it into your business
• Buy-in... Make it our own & don’t stop
• Failure... Don’t let it set you back, learn
from it and keep going. Hansei!
• Process ownership... Every process/area
needs to have an owner
• A production tool... Yes, but Lean can
be applied anywhere in a business
• Savings... Hard vs. Soft savings
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17. Support from Leadership
LEAN
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18. Thank you!
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