A passion for improvement fuels change at Dana Corp . Going Lean at Dana by Bob Gregory L ean manufacturing has been around since the end of the 1980s. At this point, books, articles, seminars and consultants abound. It's no accident they call it lean .
Early enthusiasm can give way to backsliding and inertia.
Things are trickier than that because lean transformation is about people. Just ask Jim Van Gieson. As director of continuous improvement, he drives lean change for Dana Corp.'s Automotive Aftermarket Group, a global supplier of automotive products. After a dozen years of executing lean change, he knows all the technical ins and outs of implementation. Training begins with a special week-long conference, a voluntary program that proves its value by selling out time after time.