Topic(s)
- Product development
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Highlights
Join Interface on a tour to witness the practical application of socially responsible Lean Six Sigma principles. Learn how Lean Six Sigma concepts are applied to meet sustainability goals, and how innovation frameworks are used in a Lean Six Sigma problem-solving method. Discover how socially responsible Lean Six Sigma principles are applied to increase reliability and new product speed to market.
Overview
Pursuing one-piece continuous flow and rapid prototyping in product development at Interface is a noble pursuit. Its journey to date involves implementing classic Lean Six Sigma principles in product development and design. Its problem approach has been guided by social responsibility principles as well as influencer and tribal leadership concepts. Its journey so far has been challenging but rewarding as the company continues its pursuit of a carbon-negative enterprise by 2040.
Join this tour to discover the difference between socially responsible Lean Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma, how Lean Six Sigma concepts accelerate carbon-negative design and enable global new product adoption, how stakeholder understanding and engagement enable innovation and how innovation frameworks enable more ideas and increase new product speed to market.
Company
Interface is a flooring company that makes flooring with purpose and without compromise — it does more, means more, for more. Inside every color, pattern, texture and detail is a lot of innovation, design thinking and pioneering sustainability.
In 1973, its founder, Ray Anderson, introduced a European carpet tile concept to America, starting a commercial flooring revolution that would spread around the world. Now, Interface is a global leader in modular flooring, offering an integrated collection of carpet tile and resilient flooring that includes premium rugs, luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and nora® rubber. They serve our customers across the world with 50+ years of flooring innovation, 3,600 employees around the world, sales in 100+ countries, six manufacturing sites on four continents and $1.3 billion in global revenue as of 2023. https://www.interface.com/US/en-US.html
