For example, Dom Romstead, who planned production schedules in manufacturing facilities, watched a forklift slowly move parts back and forth between a warehouse and a molding machine. Frustrated with the inefficiency of the process, he talk with coworkers and stared a team to examine the entire manufacturing process related to the company’s best – selling product. After six months of study, the team, which included two of his superiors, the director of manufacturing steps from 36 to 27, saving the company $500,000 a year. Ben Rosen, a management professor at the University of North Carolina, said of ICU Medical, It is rare that a company says, Go form your own team and go address this issue.