Weblog : Reeb Goes Lean!

The success of Reeb Millwork is through our people. While technology (WMS, 2g, Woodware, etc...) are important tools, Reeb is also focusing on the human efforts and the human decisions that make a difference to our customers. There is no greater value to our customers than making it easy to do business with us. Therefore; being fast is very good. But being fast means doing things right - always, doing this with market acceptable quality, doing things with continued improvement. Lean is a method to accomplish these goals.

Co-worker involvement is the heart of the lean environment.  Lean thinking will dramatically boost productivity, while sharply reducing errors, accidents, space requirements, time to market and cost.  A deeper goal is to improve team member capability.  By strengthening our people we will improve our prospects for long-term success.

Reeb has also committed to using 5S as part of our Lean implementation and as a way to make jobs easier, reduce stress, increase efficiency and make the workplace safer.  Applying 5S and Lean to all areas of our business in another way for Reeb to add value that is critical to our customers’ business. Lean is a people process - we have to be a people involved business.