Two days, over 50 speakers, and five rooms operating simultaneously. It's easy to listen to a bit of everything at Lean Summit over the course of two days and return without a plan of where to begin. We'll advise you on how to prepare for the 2027 edition and what to do after your return to ensure the conference translates into changes within your company.
After a good Lean training session, people return to work with their heads full of ideas. A week later, the daily grind returns: a plan to execute, a breakdown on the line, vacations on the schedule. Ideas go into a notebook and stay there.
Together with Leantrix, we advise you on how to choose training so that it applies to your facility from the very beginning, and what to do in the first two weeks to make the change really happen.
Signage in a plant typically grows over the years, character by character, line by line. We show you how to design it as a single system, from information hierarchy to workflow sequencing.
5S is one of the most popular methods of workplace organization. Most companies that implement it stop at the fourth S. The fifth, self-discipline, is the most difficult and the only one that cannot be implemented in a single action.
In a manufacturing plant or warehouse, hundreds of small decisions are made every day. Where to put a component. Which way to walk to avoid stepping in front of a forklift. Are inventory levels within acceptable limits? Who's on which shift today? Is a machine operating as planned? Most of these decisions don't require a report or a meeting. They require one thing: quick, clear information in the right place.
We sometimes hear people say that signage in the warehouse is a nice theory. That pallets don't end up in designated areas anyway, that a cleaning corner looks good in photos, but doesn't make much difference in practice. There's a grain of truth to this, but it applies only when signage or training is used separately, without a second element.
The durability of a floor tape depends primarily on the preparation of the substrate and the installation method, and only then on the product itself. The same BASIC tape can easily last several years in one facility and come off after a week in another, because each facility had a different floor condition and different application procedures. Before deciding which version to order, it's worth knowing what actually affects the marking's longevity.
On most whiteboards, the pages are held together by four magnets. Four, because with three, one corner curls up. Someone walks by, catches it with their sleeve, the magnet falls, and the page flies after them. Someone else copies the text directly onto the board with a dry-erase marker to avoid fumbling with the magnets, but then it's impossible to read, the text changes, and copying the information requires more time. Sometimes the pages are laminated or taped. Each station develops its own method, and together they don't lead to order.
Maintaining order in the warehouse doesn't always require reorganizing processes, new shelving, or a week of downtime. Sometimes, it's enough to designate spaces for items that are already there.
Nearly 60% of Polish manufacturing companies are struggling with excessive employee attrition. The standards you spent months building can crumble in a matter of weeks—if they're only in the minds of the people who just left.
