Leaning in In recent years, Homestead Woodworks has made a commitment to revitalizing their culture, and improving their processes. These efforts have really propelled their growth. In particular, Clare explains how they’ve experienced a big cultural shift over the last five years, by implementing lean manufacturing principles – Lean Manufacturing being a manufacturing methodology that focuses on minimizing waste within manufacturing systems. “Lean is basically where everybody is empowered in the company to make improvements. The bottom line is, we want to make sure whatever we’re doing is adding value to the customer. That has resulted in many improvements within the shop and out on site, in finding ways to improve processes, quality, and speed of things. Our employees are even saying now they are taking the lean approach home because it’s made their life so much easier. They are leaning out their home.” FEBRUARY 2024
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