Southwest Steel Buildings

Southwest Steel Buildings contributes 54 Lean improvements to the library, filmed on factory tours at Southwest Steel Buildings in 2024. Together they cover transportation, inventory, motion, waiting, overproduction, overprocessing, defects, and non-utilized talent, and every clip deep-links to the exact moment it happens.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Motion Overprocessing

Electrical is run overhead (instead of low) to keep floors clear and allow office reconfiguration without rework.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Inventory Overprocessing

Paper files were eliminated by scanning documents, removing most file cabinets and reducing storage and retrieval effort.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Morning meeting uses discussion questions to start problem-solving conversations that continue through the day instead of turning into a lecture.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Defects Motion Waiting

Erasable pencil marks let the saw return to 90 degrees and each job pitch.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Motion Overprocessing

Screws are kept in their original supplier boxes on the rack instead of being dumped into bins and repacked, eliminating double-handling.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Overprocessing Motion

Morning meeting reviews internal and external improvement videos and ties them to waste categories to teach waste recognition using real examples.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Instructional slides built into the morning meeting deck guide presenters on what each section is for so the meeting runs consistently.

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Inventory Transportation Waiting

They limit finished-goods floor inventory instead of stacking large batches.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Motion Overprocessing Waiting

A table under the trim line lets scrap slide underneath instead of being rolled up and thrown away, reducing handling time and keeping the line running.

Southwest Steel Buildings

A visual production load board shows each line's daily load and the assigned operator (with photos) to quickly rebalance if someone is absent.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Southwest Steel Buildings

Defects Inventory Motion

Bolt boxes are labeled with bolt picture, quantity, job, and drawing for field identification.

Southwest Steel Buildings

Southwest Steel Buildings

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