Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Manufacturing | Lean Office | Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership

This week's guest is Radek Pietruszewski. To help fight COVID-19 in Poland, Radek and his software engineering colleagues figured out how to quickly manufacture thousands of face shields. He and Ron discussed the details of this impressive project. A MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn:  How things are going in Poland as far as COVID-19 (4:42) Radek's background and how he got involved in face shield production (5:43) What die cutting looks like (9:17) Where they got the raw materials from (10:46) Where the face masks are going (14:07) The timeline (16:03) How continuous improvement played a role (18:03) The cycle times for the individual processes (22:28) How they dealt with packaging and shipping (24:08) What production is like now (27:32) What Radek learned through this experience (29:15) Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Download a Free Audio Book at Audible.com Radek's Podcast Radek