"With three main goals in mind, we assembled a team of managers, supervisors, and production staff to spearhead our Value Stream Mapping Project. To Increase Safety, Improve Quality, and Increase Productivity. This team started off the project by identifying our weaknesses and strengths. After mapping our old process we were able to map the progress and allowed the team to naturally think outside the box and collaborate in a productive manner and naturally expose employee skills and talents.

Action items were assigned to an individual that wanted to take on the challenge and help the process improve. This gave the employee a sense of purpose, belonging, and ownership in making the commitment to overall improvement. By assigning the action items we were able to improve many aspects of our production line, such as removing internal flaws in the shop to improve production flow, changing our sub-arc welding process, and improving our workplace organization.

It is somewhat challenging to specifically quantify the percentage of improvement we had from this process because of the variable product lines that go through the Tank Line. However, we do know that employee morale has improved, more questions and ideas have surfaced and all three of the production workers that were on the project team have made positive advancements in their careers and they are new team leads.

Overall, working with Impact Dakota has been a very positive and rewarding experience that has made us a better organization as a whole."

— Bryan Zingraf, Vice President of Structural Steel