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Productivity Insight...

You might be interested in this also - I've done several sessions with group out of San Diego recently who's heavily into this and actually going to an LCI seminar next week...

Lean Construction Institute

Congrats again on the book BTW - good to see it getting some recognition...

Mike,

Nice. Well done.

I have done a lot of lean projects in production flight test environments (new and rebuilt aircraft). I always find it interesting the simple things that are uncovered during the analysis phase of the lean project.

My favorite was aircraft painting: At Sikorsky they painted the aircraft before flight test, just after they completed "high bay" QA.

During the production flight test discovery, we found that the average aircraft had at least $15k in over and above charges to fix and repair painting problems: blemishes, scratches, etc.

We moved the final paint process to just before delivery to the customer.

O&A charges for paint dropped to less than 1K per helo.