Chief Operations Officer, Toyota Material Handling North America Tmhna
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“you know my experience as as well as as our organization's experience on the on the manufacturing side the process of making forklifts you know we learned a long time ago that uh automating a bad process just makes you make bad things faster.”
“our view is really born to a degree of our lean management TPS uh production system in our manufacturing facilities around really owning your process and really understanding it working at uh improving at continuous Improvement bringing in the the tenants of of lean management to visualize your process all of that requ...”
In this episode, host Kevin Lawton interviews Michael Field, CEO of Raymond Corporation, about the history of their forklift company, their philosophy of "Optimize Before You Automate" and their product offerings that help you do this. Follow us on LinkedIn ( / the-new-warehouse ) and YouTube ( / @thenewwarehouse ) . Support the show (https://www.buzzsprout.com/824608/sup...)
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