Most CI programs start with good intentions and stall at one plant. Ram Sukumar built one that works across thirteen.
In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Ram Sukumar, Director of Continuous Improvement for Hexpol Compounding Americas. Over the last six years, Ram has built and deployed the Hexpol Production System across 13 manufacturing plants in the US and Mexico, trained more than 1,100 employees across white, yellow, and green belt programs, and created a culture where CI is not a program that happens to employees but something they genuinely own. Ram is one of the most thoughtful and people-first CI leaders you will find anywhere in manufacturing today.
🔻 Why understanding the culture of a plant before you push a system into it is the difference between adoption and resistance
🔻 How Hexpol built a four-level belt program that starts with leadership training
🔻 How to standardize metrics across 13 plants so every managing director is learning from every other plant in real time
🔻 Why conflicting priorities kill more CI programs than lack of tools and how Hoshin planning finally solved it for Hexpol
🔻 How to scale AI into your operations without rushing in before your data and your people are ready
🔻 Why improvement is not an event or a program and what it looks like when your CEO believes that too
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