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INSIDE THE LOOP

Lean Executive Leadership Course at University of Kentucky

• Creating a lean environment through visual
management, highlighting normal vs abnormal
and improving accountability through
structured daily meetings
The training provided an opportunity to review
Interloop’s Lean efforts and put together an
implementation plan on how to progress further.
Going forward, what is going to be essential in
successfully implementing Lean is:
• Leadership alignment across all functions on
the vision and purpose of lean
• Recoginising that lean culture needs to be led
by leadership behaviour and practices and
every department will be responsible for
Musadaq Zulqarnain, Zain Sadiq, Faryal Sadiq, Aqeel Ahmed, Latif Zaib, Naeem Javaid, Navid Fazil, building a lean culture
Shelley Rider & Azhar Sadiq at Toyota Georgetown Plant, USA
Representatives from Interloop’s senior leadership attended a
Lean Executive Leadership Course in May 2018, at the University
of Kentucky, to further enhance organization’s understanding of
True Lean. It was a week-long training facilitated by former Toyota
executives including Pete Gritton, former Vice President, Human
Resource at Toyota North America and Cheryl Jones, former Vice
President, Manufacturing at Toyota Georgetown Plant. The training
included course-work and visits to Toyota’s largest manufacturing
plant in North America; Toyota Georgetown Plant, as well as
Autoliv; one of the world’s largest safety equipment supplier for car
manufacturers.

Key learnings from the visit included:
• Focusing on standard work instructions in manufacturing and
non-manufacturing areas
• Streamlining team leader/group leader structure, enabling
quicker decision making and team member empowerment
• Collaborating across functions at all levels including lean in Faryal & Shelley with Cheryl Jones who worked on the First
non-manufacturing departments Camry produced in 1988 at Toyota Georgetown Plant

Attraversiamo - Training of Plant 1 Team

Hosiery Plant 1 organized an off - site training; Attraversiamo, Mahodand Lake and Oshu Forest. The participants learnt about
meaning ‘Lets Cross Over’, up north in Kalam Valley Swat, from 5 - developing trust, leadership, team building, problem solving, value
8 Jul., 2018, under the leadership of Azhar Sadiq, Executive stream mapping, line balancing and standardization. The training
Director Operations. Swat is known as the Switzerland of East as it also enabled them to know each other by working together in
is an abode of tall mountains, green meadows, lofty waterfalls and groups and teams. The enjoyable company of Executive Director
clear lakes. During the training the teams performed various Operations and Adeel Tahir, Head of Plant 1 made the training a
physical & intellectual exercises in the scenic surroundings of memorable trip for everyone.

Azhar Sadiq, Executive Director Operations & Adeel Tahir, Plant Head with the Plant 1 Team at Kalam Valley, Swat
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