In business, even small enhancements in productivity and efficiency can have a big impact on your bottom line. Whether it is through reduced lead times, reduced waste, minimized downtime or improved quality, operations are looking for any advantage at every turn. Lean management is a long-term operational discipline that systematically seeks to improve efficiency and quality by identifying and eliminating waste in time and materials.

While the focus of lean manufacturing is on driving continual improvement in quality, cost, service and delivery, significant sustainability benefits typically occur as a result as well.

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Willie Carter

Willie is a seasoned operations and quality expert with proven expertise in achieving breakthroughs in eliminating waste, process improvement, lean process improvement, lean transformation, quality management and continuous improvement. He is a trained facilitator (Juran Institute) who excels at getting staff to buy-in and sustain continuous process improvement objectives; change agent and team builder with over 40 years of operations and continuous and lean process improvement leadership. He has coached and mentored process improvement teams in Europe, Asia and North America.