Organizations large and small can achieve operational excellence. Lean Path Direct takes your team from strategy to results, with hands-on coaching, extensive operational analysis, and proven tools for change.
Lean Path Direct brings the Lean methods, processes, and tools to engage your team, improve your bottom-line, and thrill your customers with a sustainable continuous improvement culture.
Whether you are beginning your Lean journey or ready to take sustained improvement initiatives to the next level, Lean Path Direct guides you and your team to create sustained Lean operational excellence with insightful evaluations, custom improvement plans, strategy deployment, process improvements, and training.
Sustainable Improvements
Achieving global Lean results from continuous improvement through team-building, leadership, detailed process-evaluation and improvement, cost-out, relentless innovation, respectful relationship-building, effective process-control, and the targeted use of technology.
Floyd Backes
Principal Owner
Floyd’s hands-on approach and track record of innovative and practical solutions can be traced to roots as a squad leader, and aircraft-certified welder/machinist in the US Air Force and subsequently with the Airborn Special Operations Test Directorate on Ft. Bragg NC, while completing his Engineering degree. Practical application of engineering technology and a focus on solving real-world root cause problems continues to drive excellent results. Upon completion of engineering school Floyd put his unique combination of hands-on skills and education to work, solving process, organizational, and design improvements for Stanley Tools, Heatcraft, United Technologies Carrier, Knorr-Bremse, Welch-Allyn, and GE. The value-proposition of these hands-on skills, collaborative leadership style, world-class manufacturing methodologies, deep process analysis, and innovative engineering solutions are now leveraged at an even higher level through leadership, training, and coaching production teams around the world.
Floyd brings these real world successes to bear as a consultant and coach for businesses large and small to evaluate, define, and solve seemingly previously intractable problems, expand EBITDA, and develop solutions and teams for sustainable continuous improvement.
Specialties: leadership, process design and optimization, large capital equipment deployment and maintenance, greenfield construction project management, capital equipment install prove-out commission and acceptance, global operations leadership, safety, ergonomics, logistics, transportation, strategic planning, management, turnaround, operational excellence, strategy deployment, project management, continuous improvement, lean, TPM, SMED, process design, process control, variation reduction.