“We chose the largest ones first to better maximize the benefits from Lean,” says Vincent de Rooij, who heads the project. A natural first step is to take a close look at production lines and the individual machines.“There, it’s a question of cleaning and keeping things in order to make the job smoother,” he says. “It can be as easy as moving a table that doesn’t fill any function but that employees have to take a few extra steps to get around and has to be dusted by cleaners. It can also mean taking away tools that were left after a particular job.”The other key part involves adapting the infrastructure used in production, from execution and control of operations to governance and planning. “Last but not least, employees should be allowed to influence the change from the very start,” de Rooij says. “In that way, people increase their motivation and the feeling of sharing responsibility.”At SCA Packaging's factories where the Lean model was introduced, there is now a performance board at every machine.