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[[off-camera speaker] Treasure Hunt is about the curiosity of people]
[who are being asked to look at their facility differently, ]
[Welcome, everybody, to Waukesha South.]
[We're here to bring all of your experiences to find new areas of energy opportunities.]
[So, unfortunately, you have me to blame for me being here on Sunday.]
[[off-camera speaker] We make diagnostic imaging equipment.]
[Because of the number of people we have here, it is the largest Treasure Hunt]
[It's a great opportunity, and we hope to see some]
[cost savings and energy reductions. ]
[We simply become investigators. ]
[We go out and we go investigate the uses of energy.]
[We start on a Sunday, typically,]
[when the facility is supposed to be in sleep mode.]
[It's amazing what we find on when everything is ]
[Why do we need all these lights on in the mail room?]
[My group is looking at electrical, specifically.]
[It's been a really interesting day.]
[We've spent the last 4 or 5 hours walking through three of the buildings on the]
[The biggest thing that I noticed just walking through is, it's a Sunday afternoon, and the amount]
[of lights we have on throughout the facility.]
[This goes into our filter which goes into our free fluid.]
[We went up and we looked at the boiler room, which has]
[a lot of potential there with the cooling towers.]
[We did find a bunch of leaky faucets.]
[We're losing 680 gallons a day with this faucet.]
[That should be getting somebody's attention.]
[Energy Treasure Hunt is based on Toyota's principles of Lean and Kaizen.]
[In the Japanese language it means to take something apart]
[and put it back together better.]
[It's about asking why. Why is the pump on?]
[Why are the lights on? Why is the motor running? Why?]
[[♪ music ♪] [machinery noises]]
[One of the key things that I just took away from this was just--]
[Oh, a mike. Better. [laughter]]
[So we just finished our report out, and we found about]
[33 Kaizens, 17 of which we actually did a detailed analysis.]
[I think the payback was somewhere around 2 years,]
[and it would be about $300,000 dollars worth of savings.]
[We would save about 400,000 gallons a year.]
[That's $3000 just in saved water.]
[We were actually able to show that if they used all of our ideas]
[they would be able to save about 43 percent]
[of their total water use from the campus. ]
[We've been in the top ten water users list]
[in Milwaukee historically up until ]
[last year because we'd done some work.]
[In this Treasure Hunt, we're looking to reduce that water usage further.]
[I think the more intrinsic benefit of Treasure Hunt]
[is the fact that those folks for two and a half ]
[days had the opportunity to not do their real job.]
[They had the opportunity to go out in the shop with people.]
[They had to teach people who were unfamiliar with their business.]
[They got to learn about how to ask questions about energy, ]
