The story of TC Industries, Inc. is an example of making quick improvements and keeping them. The sudden and momentous change of the management, people, and culture is clearly seen. We had a crisis and didn’t want to be a casually, so we put our company through the Lean Emergency Room.

The scope of this presentation is a ‘how to’ approach to assigning priorities to your Lean implementation similar to how an Emergency Room sets their priorities. The presentation will answer the following questions. How severe is the crisis? What should I do first? What do I do when everything seems urgent? How do I put my company through the Lean Emergency Room? What were our lessons learned?

During the first six months of our Lean implementation we recorded a 40% reduction in total cycle time and a 60% increase in on time delivery

TC Industries, Inc. is a global company supplying heat treated ground engaging tools and long steel bars to OEM customers worldwide. The plant spoken about in this presentation is;

TC Industries of Canada, Western Division
480 Pittsburgh Avenue
Selkirk , Manitoba
Canada R1A 2B3

Eldon Johnson, Production Systems Manager

Eldon Johnson is a 22 year employee of TC Industries that has held positions in Engineering and production management and is currently responsible for the Lean implementation in their 5 facilities. He has a degree in Industrial Management and has participated in the AME, SME, SAE, IIE, and IIR societies. He has been a conference presenter at an annual AME conference and the IIR (Institute for International Research) Lean conference.