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Rising to the Challenge: The Lean Journey of Phase 2 (video)

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Rising to the Challenge: The Lean Journey of Phase 2 (video)

By Chet Marchwinski

August 4, 2016

In this video, Adam Prime, president of Phase 2 Medical Device Manufacturing shares some insider info on his organization's lean journey to reach their aggressive productivity and efficiency goals, as well as the impact it had on both him and his company.

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Phase 2 Medical Device Manufacturing of New Hampshire was in a tough place. Their largest client by far, a biotechnology conglomerate, seemed on the verge of cutting all business with Phase 2 in favor of overseas competition. Faced with such a risk, Phase 2 stepped into action. They promised that they would find a way to match the overseas competitors’ prices – which they found would require tripling capacity with minimal added development costs. The solution to that involved a two-part change strategy, combining elements of reducing costs and creating lean Cell Operating Systems that could support the new demands.

In this video, Phase 2 president Adam Prime shares some insider info on his organization’s lean journey to reach their goals, as well as the impact it had on both him and his company.

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About Chet Marchwinski

Chet has been a humble, unwashed scribe of the lean continuous improvement movement since books by Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo first hit North America in the 1980s. At LEI, he contributes to content creation, marketing, public relations, and social media. Previously, he also wrote case studies on lean management implementations in…

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