Powerplants Australia Case Study - MBS From the office above his new factory in the Melbourne suburb of Hallam, Carl van Loon, CEO of Powerplants Australia, monitors production on the floor. Below, greenhouse computerised climate controllers move through the new stations with clean efficiency. "Before the program," Carl says, "one of the things that I loved about visiting other lean factories was the sense of calm, even in massive, complex companies. We weren’t used to calm, we were used to bustling around and putting out fires. But now, we’re calm and productive. It’s great." “If you think you can’t afford to be away from your business for this amount of time, you’re exactly the person who needs to be doing this program. For our business, looking at the before and after shots, the differ

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