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You need to get out there and ‘walk the shop floor,’ talk to your employees, and get a sense of what’s going on. After all, it’s your team that makes the business successful, not just you.

Nevertheless, he thinks the combination of a flow line with stationary stands – crucially without permanent infrastructure that could determine the shop’s basic layout – is a “game changer”.