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He Shut Down His Factory for 8 Days. Here's What Happened.
What happens when you shut down a factory doing roughly $30,000 a day in throughput and refuse to start it again until you understand the problem?
That's exactly what Brad Cairns did.
In this episode, Dominic Rubino sits down with Brad to unpack an extraordinary Lean manufacturing "stop and fix" inside Brad's MDF cabinet door factory.
The problem started with a number Brad couldn't ignore: roughly $40,000 in costs associated with glue squeeze-out over about 60 days.
Rather than continuing to adjust, compensate and work around the problem, Brad decided to put the Toyota Way into practice:
Stop…
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