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GA 639 | Putting the Customer First with Slaytor Baldwin
A suppressor manufacturer in Utah started its lean transformation about a year ago. Twelve months later, inventory turns had doubled, changeover time dropped from 3.5 hours to 9 minutes, and a rollout planned for a year got compressed to three months. Slaytor Baldwin, Director of Operations at SilencerCo, joined Ron Pereira to walk through exactly how that happened, including the five years of failed starts that preceded it and what finally changed. In this episode you'll learn: How a single cell pilot compressed a year-long rollout into three months (0:00) What starting a career inside a…
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