This file contains slides that show the elements chosen by the senior management and consultants to re-engage and re-launch the lean journey at Wausau Equipment Company, following its original failed implementation and necessitated by implementation and acceptance problems at the management level

The lean initiative detailed in the (A) case, OM-1354, had reached a precarious stage. Despite an optimistic business forecast, there was a disturbing trend developing: the Machine and Systems division of Wausau Equipment Company (WECO) had failed to sell several harvesting systems to customers...