Our sincere thanks to Daryl Davis, Ductmakers’ GM and his team, Michael, Danny , Adrian ,An Ho for hosting this SIRF Ductmakers site tour.

Special thanks to Daryl for his passionate and enlightening presentation, sharing his experience , knowledge and valuable thoughts on ‘What makes a great LEAN leader’.

He has kindly shared his presentation that is available to SIRF member companies .

We had a chance to briefly network with others in attendance.

Daryl then presented on ‘What makes a great LEAN leader’ with a chance for Q&A.

We split into 3 smaller groups  for a hosted  Ductmakers site tour to see their Continuous Improvement processes firsthand and then had a chance to debrief the key take aways.

26 people from 14 companies in attended 

..and came with the following AIMS :

AIMS

• Learn from others implementing C.I.
• Look at how they manage tiered meetings as we are implementing these
• Insights into Best Practices as have heard good things about Ductmakers
• Visual Management examples
• See a more mature site on their C.I. journey
• Business Planning Deployment – Hoshin Kanri
• How to engage the whole workforce
• Get refreshed and re-energised
• 5S implantation and sustain tips

And left with the following Key Take Aways:

KEY TAKE AWAYS

• Importance of effective Strategy Deployment
• People #1 – not C.I. tools
• People – Communication Transparency
• Culture established and lead – People helping people fix problems together
• Calm , organised , engaged workplace
• No scrap on the floor – well managed
• Attitude for mistakes – rewarded for bring up
• Clean – Teamwork – Flow
• Simplify
• All  levels supporting 5S on shop floor – every Fri 10:00 am – all in to clean designated equipment and areas
• Above and Below the line 
  ( Above : Ownership, Accountability, Responsibility      vs      Below : Blame , Excuses, Denial )
• Visual Management excellence
• S.O.P. visual and where need
• Create the environment for improvement – war room. Time , resources
• Quality – do not accept, make or pass on Quality defects – QR QC
• C.I. deployment not to a standard recipe – Go See, Talk , What are problems for the people ? Fix these first
• Great to see how things are manufactured – ducting very labor intensive

Contact your SIRF State manager if you want a copy of Daryl's presentation