So I’ve spent this week in LA; more precisely South Gate. I have attended an RCI (it’s a Kaizen thing) to improve processes. The process my group focused on was final stages of packaging a file cabinet. Yeah, it sounds pretty boring. It really isn’t. It’s all about efficiency and having the people who work there work smarter so they can meet the expected work load with the least amount of wasted motion and time. While the process my group worked on seems pretty minor, the expectation is to have a file packaged and sent to the warehouse in 30.9 seconds. That’s pretty fast moving for the people packing the cabinets, so studies need to be done to help them get things done quicker and with less wasted movement.

Also, at night, I’ve been going out. There are actually four of us from the IT department who are here. We’ve gone to Rock Bottom in Long Beach and The Yard House in Pasadena. Tonight we will go to another IT department person’s house - he lives in East LA (no Cheech Marin jokes, please!) and services our companies here. I never did get a reply from Ken, so I guess I won’t see him on this trip.

Anyway… tomorrow is our presentation and later in the afternoon is our flight home. Here’s hoping that we have smooth and on-time flights tomorrow. I should be touching down in Moline at 11:30pm - of course, that would only be 9:30pm here and I’ve quickly adjusted to the Pacific Time Zone! It will be good to get home, even if it is 60 degrees warmer here!