Lean Legends | Norm O’Hara | Springfree Trampolines

Norm O’Hara is the General Manager of a sporting equipment factory based in Southern China. He’s also a lean manufacturing enthusiast who’s excited to share the improvements he and his team are making on their journey toward organizational excellence.
In this episode we talk about:
Treating improvement videos as a product
Cultural challenges of applying lean in China
(And how to overcome them)
The power of building a physical bridge between two factories
Reducing the number of people moving items around from 40 to 4
And his desire to run a “world-class business”
Check it out!
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[@RichardEvans-ez1ry]

Kudos to Norm for not only persevering with 2SL, but overcoming a cultural barrier, language and humility. Thankyou for these podcasts. You obviously have drank the 'elixir' too 👍👌❤️

[@leanmadesimple]

Thanks Richard :)

[@GembaDocs]

Norm is just BEAUTIFUL! Another guy who gets the dignity that lean brings to the workplace. Love it - keep these podcasts coming guys!

[@harikarthika580]

Great and inspiring podcast. Thank you Norm and Ryan.. ❤

[@leanmadesimple]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sakthivel-kg2sk]

Very useful podcast ,keep doing more❤

[@leanmadesimple]

Thank you! Will do!

[@phillruby]

another class A podcast! you guys are delivering so much value to the community. Thanks!

[@leanmadesimple]

Much appreciated!