Ali Banholzer Yes. So each for that particular one we had assigned each step in the process a different side of the die. So yeah, they've flipped the dice and that dice not only records the amount of time but it also records -- like a timestamp that records the time and day right as well. Marshall Atkinson And if you don't know what Timeular is, I suggest you look it up. It allows you to track anything. And Ali uses it throughout her shop to record her data. So you measured this stuff, you went through the project, you know, DMAIC, you know, the last letter in a word in DMAIC is Control. So let's talk about the result. Ali Banholzer So the result is we have fewer screen failures, which is increased profits, and a less frustrated staff. Bottomline, and so we control the system, we still track errors, everybody still has their Timeular, although now the Timeular has been reassigned, so it doesn't record each little step in the pre-press process it just as you know, kind of the whole process, you know, reclaim coding exposure on press set up printing. So and the control charts, you know, it's again, we still have them as simple tick marks. And at the end of the day, I can look at how many tick marks and know how many screens we should be, at each step, how many screens we should be reclaiming every day? And how many failures we had at that point? And I can put that on a control chart and then see are we trending up, trending down, staying within control. And if it goes out of control, I know exactly which employee I need to go to. And we know how we need to correct it. Marshall Atkinson It's was a couple of months, what was the timeframe here? Ali Banholzer So that project was about a month to do that. Other projects that are more in-depth, I'll be honest, in our industry, Lean Six Sigma projects can take up to six months. But that's really for a very large corporation. That's one of the beautiful things with the average size of our shops, we can be pretty nimble, and we can get a lot of these projects done much faster within a month. You can also work on two different projects at the same time, if you want the one caveat to that is you want to make sure they're independent, and not influencing each other. Because if you're trying to fix two things at once, and they influence each other, you don't really know what worked. Marshall Atkinson Yeah. So you can work on some screen room projects and also how to shrink wrap a pallet? So let's think about this. If let's just say each project took about a month, you could do 10 to 12 projects a year. And then in two to three years, just imagine how much better your shop is going to run than it is now. And then that's where all your growth, that's where all your profit comes from? Am I correct in that Ali? Ali Banholzer Yeah, it shows I'm a million-dollar business or a half-million-dollar business or a $5 million business. You know this, that's the thing. It's across the board. You look at a look, I brought in a million dollars, but I've got $10,000 profit in the bank. Marshall Atkinson Right? That's why you can have a lot of sales, but not a lot of profit.
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