Mysore Kirloskar — Hubli
Throughput time reduced 96–97% — generally regarded as India's first end-to-end lean factory transformation.
Toyota's visiting team, on seeing the factory: “We never expected to see such a factory in India.”
Fifty years in industry, thirty-five studying Lean. Transformation has to be led from the top — we've done it twice, from the ground up.
Companies where we led or advised Lean transformations — full-system implementation, turnaround, or CEO-level advisory.
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Throughput time reduced 96–97% — generally regarded as India's first end-to-end lean factory transformation.
Toyota's visiting team, on seeing the factory: “We never expected to see such a factory in India.”
A five-year-old joint venture that had never shipped a machine. Six months later, swamped with orders from Asia and Europe.
A turnaround visited by the Indonesian President and the American Ambassador.
Sanjeev, I read the case and was extremely impressed. It certainly followed all the principles that I talk about. Your vision and faith in the process, when you had not experienced it before, and leadership through very difficult times is admirable. Taking such dramatic steps into the unknown, when the viability of the company was at stake, and getting your people on board at each step, was also remarkable. It is one of the top stories of total lean enterprise transformation from sales to product development to manufacturing, to delivery that I know of.
JEFFERY LIKER — author of The Toyota Way Sanjeev, I was finally able to read your case study. An impressive story! Very different from the couple of Plants I was able to see during the course of my visit.MICHAEL BREMER — Executive Director, Chicagoland Lean Enterprise Consortium
“I am sinking.” Shop-floor teaching cut supply chain lead times 84–92%, build times 66%, throughput 92% — and made the company profitable within months.
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