Barry Controls Dan Yurovich is president of Barry Controls, a mid-sized, traditional manufacturing company based in Connecticut. He discusses the importance of leadership vision and the drive necessary to carry it forth. Here are some of the questions he answered: Is your lean implementation on track? How far along are you from your goal of being a lean enterprise? How hard was it to implement the lean techniques within the operations of a mid-sized company? How hard is it to transform a traditional manufacturing culture? How important is it to get rid of the naysayers? Did you get much resistance from people who thought it was too much of a change? Where are the current bottlenecks in the organization? How difficult is it to change from a batch and queue to a flow system of manufacturing? What types of results have you seen since implementing lean? Did you improve your margins in the late 1990s because of your new production system or because the economy was growing so well? How important are consultants? Are your customers demanding that you cut the prices of your products? Is there a great deal of discussion or analysis within your company of moving production to a low-labor-cost country? What recommendations do you have for companies that are trying to pursue a lean strategy? What are some of your own lessons learned? To view questions from other interviews in Lean Machines, Click Here. Click Here to order a copy of Lean Machines.