Lean Manufacturing: Improve Business Efficiency & Maximize Profits (Pt. 1)

Cutting costs and reducing waste—that’s something that sounds good to any business owner. Using lean manufacturing allows you to do both. That’s what Joe Pilat did, putting lean principles in practice to grow his startup, Joe’s Gaming and Electronics, into a multi-million dollar company.

The concept of lean manufacturing was first introduced by entrepreneur Paul Akers. In today’s interview, we’ll find out how lean thinking has improved Joe’s profit margins, product quality, and customer service, along with the challenges and benefits of implementing it on a day-to-day basis.

Every new hire at Joe’s GE learns to think lean, and we’ll find out how this affects his hiring and training, as well as how his staff has responded.

Lean concepts can be applied to businesses of every size. Today, we’ll talk to Joe about how his business has changed as it grew from a one-man operation to a staff of more than 30.

He’ll talk about must-have tools for lean manufacturing and how to use them for maximum effect. You’ll also hear his secrets for continuous improvement and how he makes sure Joe’s GE is getting better on a daily basis.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:48 Joes story
3:15 How lean was discovered
4:16 How lean changed Joe’s business
6:08 Favorite implementation of lean
7:20 Impact of lean on margins
8:38 Daily activities
9:21 Lean manufacturing tools
10:46 Showing the process
11:35 Customer service
13:08 Lean principles
13:43 Reminder to viewers
15:21 Outro

#leanmanufacturing #leanmanagement #leanproduction

[ryanwells]

We need to see a bonus episode 3 -- which is a facility tour showing all of his improvements. Epic content. Can't get enough of these lean businsses.

[bobthebuilder]

Paul, I just have to say that you are by far my favorite interviewer for UpFlip! When they had the other guy interview Joe, he didn't carry the same enthusiasm and genuine interest as you did. Keep up the great work!

[nicholasdavidson]

When I worked in hospitality I saw that having an adaptive environment was important. The needs of the restaurant change and the work flow needs to change directions depending on bookings etc. Putting things on wheels really helped. The restrictions were plumbing, but you can also have gas hoses and water and waste hoses that follow moving stations. If the business was fitted out correctly from the start it wouldn't cost time and money and profits later (having to try to fix everything). It was a great practical excercise in lean and I payed using my own wages and time and energy but I'm blessed to have captured the wisdom of lean. Being a owner or having a owner that is willing to use lean is what I would advise though as i found it really tough to pull off with many people resisting the change and not being able to see what they couldn't see

[andrewlowes]

Wow, Joe's the real deal! What an awesome entrepreneur and success story!

[Sharkdogb]

Lean businesses like this have me hooked please keep up this topic

[malekquronfoleh]

I just wanna thank you for this channel that has a great content . I wish you all the best
Good luck

[ronakttawde]

Your videos are amazing to bring lean practice in every company. I am myself is a LSSBB and truly believe and practice Lean Philosophy.
Really Life changing content.

[gaminjesus]

Amazing video! Love lean. Watched Paul Akers interview, and read his book. Making my work life and home life a lot more enjoyable. Great interview!

[Mike-dybq]

Love the lean mindset! Thanks for these types of videos. I can't help but think about all the money that is tied up in the parts sitting on those shelves not to mention the real estate as well. Need to investigate a way to eliminate that.

[servant]

I'm retired now and have followed Paul for several years. I would like to see you do something on 'leaning your garage' or hobby workspace. I know it is specific and not a huge general audience. Even a pointer to another resource would be helpful.

[SimplyTastyCo]

Y’all need to get picked up by some tv channel already 👍🏽 great stuff guys

[jutau]

Gotta push for Right to repair movement in all parts of the country. In the end if large corporations have their way, businesses like this will be made "illegal" due to pro corporate IP laws.

[hamedmn]

i love your content and i wish to see more

[nicholasdavidson]

One way to look at it is that you are simplifying and compressing the processes. This leads to reduced cognitive loading and less errors. The output means more satisfied customers. Instead of having five seperate departments, you have one or two of which the people in them are crossed trained to cover more bases. Being employee focused rather than total focus on customers means you get a happier customer and more profits as a result. The employees are also the customer.

[jasperdualcirclesbikerenta]

What is that box they use for standardization?

[RORGuitars]

Great video guys, always good to see inside a lean business!

[harbanssingh-nlqm]

Hello brother, I need your help

I have to make assignment on pick one company and find issues which the company facing now (facing past 2 years) and then apply lean product to that problem to solve it( which we learned in class in lean production system subject).

Can you please tell me how I can find company's two problem (any company manufacturing or service)????

Waiting your response
Thanku

[shaneduffy]

The WiFi bit hurt me, the leanest right way would be to set them all up with the same SSID and only do it once

[shamashmindful]

Really excellent and informative videos guys. Congrats! I'm thinking of making a series of videos about how to be lean when working from home, as now there are an extra few million people working from home. I've been working from home for 10 years, but only now beginning to start my happy lean journey. You're welcome to steal my idea and do that yourself too :)

[khaingzaw]

I want to translate lean videos with Myanmar subtitles and then I want to share them with our people.