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Lean Case Study: Seating Matters

How Seating Matters started their Lean Journey

Imple­ment­ing Lean is a dif­fi­cult task. Its prin­ci­ples need to not only be under­stood, but rather ful­ly engrained in every­one and every­thing the com­pa­ny does and pro­duces. Ryan explains some of his own strug­gles, as he intro­duced Lean to Seat­ing Matters.

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Lean is Boundless. Our Journey To Northern Ireland.

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Seating Matters Company Overview

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Seating Matters Process Overview

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Why Lean?

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How Seating Matters started their Lean Journey

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Next VideoWelcome to Seating Matters' Paradise

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One Piece Flow Order Processing

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Ordering Processing "Before Lean"

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360 Degree One Piece Flow Processing

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Lean Cutting Process

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Cutting Process Value Added vs. Non Value Added

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Lean Upholstery: Watching vs. Seeing

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Introduction to Laser Cutting

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Lean Capital Expenditure & Quality First

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Order Release & Bottleneck Management

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Laser Printing Visual Management

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Future State One Piece Flow Goals

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Lean Sales

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Practicing 3S

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One Piece Flow Tea

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Next Video Welcome to Seating Matters’ Paradise 

Intro­duc­ing Lean into an orga­ni­za­tion is dif­fi­cult. Sus­tain­ing it is even hard­er. Ryan explains how he and his team work togeth­er to hold each oth­er account­able to the high­est Lean stan­dards as they con­tin­ue on their nev­er end­ing jour­ney of con­tin­u­ous improvement.