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Lean University -- Race City
USA for Contractors
It's time to meet your
instructors.
Dave Melhus, vice
president, Simpler Consulting
 Dave
will be presenting the fundamentals of Lean: how to identify
waste and remove it from your business. He will present
common Lean tools, including Kaizen, one-piece flow, 5-S,
value-stream mapping and theory of constraints.
He will explain the following
about implementing Lean construction: the types of
improvement you can expect, how to take an company-wide
approach, and what Lean companies look like from the top
down.
Dave joined Simpler in 2002.
He has led Lean transformations as executive vice president
of operations at Vermeer and vice president and general
manager at HON Company. He has worked as a sensei and client
manager for diverse companies, including Boldt Construction,
Exempla, Wellmark, HON, Wahl Clippers, Ariens Co., Carver
Pump Co., Thedacare, Kolbe & Kolbe and Weasler
Manufacturing. Simpler's client revenues range in size from
$5 million to $25 billion annually.
Ted Angelo, executive vice
president, Grunau Co.
 5-S
is a fundamental tool used by Lean companies. It stands for
Sort, Straighten, Sweep, Standardize and Sustain. Ted will
explain how Grunau Co. came to understand 5-S and Lean
construction. He will show how Lean reshaped the way Grunau
does business.
Ted is a great spokesperson
for Lean. On his last job, he was in charge of 400 men. He
understands chaos on the jobsite. He will be the first to
tell you that his decades of experience made him think he
knew the right way to get things done. That is, until he
stumbled upon Lean construction one day four years ago.
Today, Grunau is reaping huge rewards. And it's all because
of Lean.
Paul Reiser, corporate
vice president, productivity
and quality, Boldt Construction
 Paul
will explain how Boldt uses Lean to ensure reliable planning
and execution of workflow in order to get as close to 100
percent task completion as possible. Today, Boldt handles
nearly $600 million in projects, making it the nation's
51st-largest construction management company. At any given
time, 40 to 50 projects are using Lean tools to improve
performance.
Rather than shy away from
what some might consider an “experimental” process, Boldt
actually sought out Lean construction in an initiative to
improve project performance. The result has been as much as
a 10 percent to 20 percent improvement on projects. Since
1999, Boldt has implemented Lean on more than 300 projects.
Breon Klopp, senior
director, motor sports development,
PIT Instruction & Training
 Breon
will show you how high-performance pit stops and
high-performance jobsites are similar. Tenths of a second on
the race track yield thousands of dollars in victory lane.
On the jobsite, removing waste from your processes will
produce similar monetary rewards.
PIT is the motor sports
industry leader in pit team athlete training and motor
sports empirical and performance programming. PIT is the
official Crew Member Development Partner of Drive for
Diversity in cooperation with NASCAR. Breon is chairperson of
the MSI Motor Sports Industry Committee and a member
of the NASCAR Nextel All Star Race Local Organizing
Committee.
Patrick Bernall, PIT
Instruction & Training
 Patrick
will lead the pit crew training portion of the event. He has
extensive experience in NASCAR, having served as jack man
for the #45 Kyle Petty race team and front-tire carrier for
the #4 Morgan-McClure Motorsports team. Patrick understands
the parallels between Lean in the pit box and Lean on the
jobsite. He will demonstrate these parallels for you by
putting you in a position to experience them yourself. This
is where you will take your learning from the classroom and
implement it in the real world.
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