

Andersen Corporation is an international window and door manufacturing enterprise employing approximately 10,000 people at more than thirty manufacturing facilities, logistics centers, and company owned retail locations.
Rick Wynveen, Director of Manufacturing Operations, and his team will share how they used Lean practices through the pandemic to increase capacity and throughput while reducing scrap for a small investment.
Agenda
12:00 Welcome, introductions, and check-in
12:15 Strategic overview on record-setting results during a pandemic
12:30 Continuous improvement focus to achieve increased capacity and throughput
1:00 Quality enhancements and making it happen
1:25 Upcoming Optima events and adjourn
Optima’s Leaders Roundtable group provides Executive CI Leaders an opportunity to meet other CI Leaders and learn from one another. Members of each Roundtable group are from non-competing organizations who have been on the Continuous Improvement journey and are willing to share their successes and their struggles along the way. Discussions help members to determine strengths and weaknesses in their organization’s CI journey and to gauge where their organization is at on the CI journey. Members not only get the chance to share their knowledge and experience, but also get to “sharpen the saw” by benefiting from others’ knowledge and experience. Roundtable groups meet quarterly.
The Paradigm President’s Group in MN and the Paradigm Group in ND were designed to foster strong relationships between our members and to unlock the value of real-world best practices. We meet monthly for ½ day at a member site and this is an opportunity for each member to benchmark the best practices (and the not so best practices) of other companies. Members, in utmost confidentiality, discuss their successes and failures and ask their fellow members for advice and analysis.