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Lean Legends | Norm O’Hara | Springfree Trampolines

Lean Legends | Norm O’Hara | Springfree Trampolines

FromLean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time!


Lean Legends | Norm O’Hara | Springfree Trampolines

FromLean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time!

ratings:
Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Nov 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Norm O’Hara is the General Manager of a sporting equipment factory based in Southern China. He’s also a lean manufacturing enthusiast who’s excited to share the improvements he and his team are making on their journey toward organizational excellence.
In this episode we talk about:

Treating improvement videos as a product
Cultural challenges of applying lean in China
(And how to overcome them)
The power of building a physical bridge between two factories
Reducing the number of people moving items around from 40 to 4
And his desire to run a “world-class business”

Check it out!
Links:

Playlist with 119 improvement videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzZiVpXQCLUmIUeg5Tx4P3BbBtfIfRsUt
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/normohara?originalSubdomain=cn
Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour
Released:
Nov 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (30)

Welcome to Lean Made Simple: a podcast for people who want to change their business and their lives one step at a time. I’m Ryan Tierney from Seating Matters, a manufacturing company from Limavady, Northern Ireland. Eight years ago I came across this thing called lean and it transformed my life and now I want to share this message with as many people as possible.