I hadn't realised that Norman Bodek had done a trip to Ireland.
Podcasts available here.
http://www.leanblog.org/2008/12/leanblo ... ek-on.html
http://www.leanblog.org/2009/02/leanblo ... bodek.html
Bodek is an expert on lean manufacturing ideas. He talks about how companies in Ireland used clever ways to work together in factories.
A lot of his ideas show how workers can implement ideas by themselves, rather than putting pressure on the system and ideas never being implemented.