Creating Value With Lean Thinking with Tony Hayes

In this episode, Blaine has a deep discussion with Lean manufacturing Black Belt, Tony Hayes. Tony is an Executive Lean Leader responsible for the Wabash Management System, Continuous Improvement and Quality at Wabash, supporting the CEO and the Executive Leadership Team in driving customer value creation. He has extensive experience in delivering profitable growth, improving risk profile, and increasing return on Wabash invested capital in the automotive, transportation, aerospace and defense industries. Tony is a seasoned operations and lean expert with extensive experience in strategy and organizational governance. Tony has utilized his lean expertise to assist organizations with their most complex problems in manufacturing, engineering, material planning and logistics, value chain management, and quality.
In this episode, Blaine has a deep discussion with Lean manufacturing Black Belt, Tony Hayes.

Blaine and Tony discuss what Lean is, how its applied in manufacturing, as well as non-manufacturing businesses, what makes up the 'value stream' in a business, process mapping, adding value for the customer, and a bunch more concepts around building a business the runs like a top!  

Connect with Tony on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyhayes/