Jacksonville Lean Consortium — May 29 Lean Leader Meeting
Come See How a Family-Owned Shop in Green Cove Springs Is Applying Continuous Improvement to the Real Needs of Their Business and Customers.
Most facility tours show you the production floor and call it a day. Worth Stairs & Rails will show you more.
WSR calls it their “Lean Experiment” — and it’s running through the whole building. Continuous improvement isn’t confined to the shop floor; it shows up in the offices, in how their information systems move work between teams, and in a few places you’d never expect. They’re opening the doors to their “Progress Lab” to show you the whole thing — what’s clicked, what they’ve learned along the way, and what they’re still refining.
Bring a couple of your team members. Bring the problem that’s been bugging you for six months. We’ll spend three hours digging into it with you.
About Worth Stairs & Rails
Worth Stairs & Rails (also known as Worth Metals, Inc.) is a family-owned metal fabrication company in Green Cove Springs, specializing in custom metal stairs and railings for commercial and monumental projects — including the Mayo Clinic and PGA Tour Headquarters.
In 2025, they earned the AIA Jacksonville Craftsmanship Award for their work on the KLS Martin project — a fellow Lean Jax member.
Agenda
Friday, May 29, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Lunch to follow)
Worth Stairs & Rails | 4135 Hwy 17 S, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043
9:00 – 10:00 AM | Introductions & Real Problems on the Table
Meet your fellow Consortium members and their teams. Put your real challenges on the table. Walk through the frameworks behind WSR’s “Lean Experiment.”
10:00 – 11:00 AM | Inside the “Progress Lab” — The Tour
Walk the shop and the offices. See continuous improvement applied across the whole operation, including how WSR is leveraging their information systems to keep work moving across departments. Hear the real story. Ask anything.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | The Magic Show
Your host takes the problems surfaced in Hour 1 and works them in real time — turning them into clear, doable next steps. See some of the tools WSR has been quietly putting to work behind the scenes.
12:00 PM | Lunch & Collaboration
The conversations that started this morning don’t have to end here. Share a meal, swap ideas, and keep building the kind of First Coast network that makes everyone’s work better.
What You’ll Take Home
- A clear next step for one of your most challenging problems — an actual plan you and your team can run with.
- A new way to think about continuous improvement — one that runs from the shop floor, into the offices, through the information systems, and out to the people who make it all work.
- Real ideas you can put into action immediately.
- Relationships with First Coast leaders who get what you’re working on.
Reserve your spot — and bring your team.