Every plant has two factories. One makes your product.

The other one makes waste.

Leanwrx finds the hidden factory inside Northeast Ohio manufacturers — the rework, waiting and walking that eat your capacity — and helps your team shut it down for good.

OUT FRONT

Not behind a desk. Not behind a junior team.

Whether it’s a room full of PMPA members or a cell on second shift, I’m the one in front of your people.

Speaking to Northeast Ohio PMPA members, 2026. Session rated 4.75 / 5.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

This is what the hidden factory looks like on a Tuesday.

Lean calls them the 8 Wastes. You probably call them “just how it goes.” Each one is costing you money every shift.

I Inventory, on a real floor

At a $75MM furniture retailer, over $500K of stock was 90+ days old, some of it five years. On one outbound load, 23% of items weren’t where the system said they were.

Every missing item meant a search, a delay, or a customer driving home empty-handed.

“This will be the last time I ever buy anything from here.”
— A customer, overheard at the pickup counter

See all 8 Wastes, with real examples and what they cost →

Recognized three or more? That's your hidden factory.

WHAT I BELIEVE

“That's how we've always done it” is the most expensive sentence in manufacturing.

I’m not here to protect the way things are. I’m here to find out why they’re that way, and whether they should be.

Lean doesn’t start in a conference room. Neither do I.
Your best improvement idea is already on your floor. Usually on second shift.
A Kaizen event without standard work is just an expensive cleanup.
If the consultant leaves and the gains leave with him, it wasn’t lean. It was a rental.

THE TOOLBELT

Lean is in the name. It's not the only tool.

Some problems need a Kaizen. Others need statistics, a change plan or a customer interview. I pick the tool that fits the problem, not the other way around.

Lean

5S, flow, Kaizen, value streams

Six Sigma

Data and statistics when variation is the enemy

Design for Six Sigma

Building new processes right the first time

Voice of the Customer

Finding out what buyers actually value

Change management

Getting people to own the new way

Project management

PMP discipline so improvements actually land

Strategy deployment

Tying daily work to the plan

AI & automation

Standardize first, then automate

Find it. Fix it. Keep it fixed.

START HERE

Hidden Capacity Assessment

A fixed-scope look at your core production area. You get the waste quantified and a ranked fix list. Three to four days on site, fixed price quoted up front.

FIX

Process improvement

Flow, 5S, setup reduction and layout, implemented with your team on the floor.

KEEP

Strategy & coaching

Strategy deployment, customer discovery and leader coaching so the gains hold.

3 cells

at NPL Home Medical: from one cramped station to three assembly cells, one of them mobile, built out before the move

18%

better inventory turns for a $75MM furniture business

$1.2MM

a year saved in order management across three U.S. sites at Philips Healthcare

“Before we moved, Nik helped us clean up our processes, our inventory, and honestly our heads. We built production around best practices and walked into the new building with habits we could sustain.”
— David Haynes, CEO, NPL Home Medical

THE PERSON ON YOUR FLOOR

I'm Nik. I go where “good enough” lives, and I don't leave it alone.

For 20 years — from running a global Lean Six Sigma program to working shop floors in Northeast Ohio — the pattern has been the same: the biggest gains hide behind habits nobody has challenged. I’m the one who asks the uncomfortable “why” — and then stays to help your team build the answer.

Leanwrx is me. No hand-off to a junior team, no account manager. The person who walks your floor on day one is the one who sees it through.

Work with Nik → Invite Nik to speak →