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- Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing
- This paper describes the benefits of wisely integrating Six Sigma with Lean Manufacturing. Lean evaluates the operation of the factory and restructures the manufacturing method to reduce waste in activities such as waiting, transportation, material hand-offs, inventory, and production. It co-locates the process in sequential order and, in so doing,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- High Velocity Manufacturing: A Step Above Just-In-Time and Lean Manufacturing
- "High Velocity Manufacturing is a strategy for achieving significant, continuous improvement in performance through the elimination of all waste of time and resources in the total business process. To achieve this means revolutionary change in the way a company does business It means developing a disciplined, watchful company culture, one...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Embracing Lean Manufacturing By Outsourcing Third-Party Logistics
- This article shows how one can embrace lean manufacturing by outsourcing third-party logistics, with the help of a case of General Motors North America. GMNA regularly deploys its outsourcing, and it has plenty of experience analyzing which outsourcing supplier's capabilities and solutions best fit its needs. GM Powertrain was responsible...
- Case studies 2002-05-01
- Supply Chain In The Fast Lane
- This article is about improvements in supply chain of automotive industry. It illustrates through Detroit and Covisint way, the trend of slowly refining processes seems to be continuing, even when it comes to something as hyper-kinetic as e-business. The auto industry went to lean manufacturing initiatives, like just-in-time delivery, a...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Applying Lean Manufacturing To Six Sigma - A Case Study
- From the executive summary: ‘The combined effect of ‘Lean Manufacturing' and ‘Six Sigma' has led to improvements in product quality and turnaround time. The improvements have resulted not only in cost reduction, but also the possibility of presenting the improvement stories to the customer, building the reputation of the company...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Taking Lean Manufacturing Beyond the Shop Floor
- Manufacturers tend to spend a great deal of time looking at the concepts of lean manufacturing and Six Sigma and how they can apply on the shop floor. But on the whole, they've given far less thought to how they can benefit by applying lean principles in corporate "White spaces"...
- White papers
- What Is Lean Six Sigma
- Lean Six Sigma combines the quality improvements that come from using Six Sigma with the speed improvements that come from using Lean manufacturing principles. Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects in any process - from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service. Lean...
- White papers
- Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise
- This SAP white paper reviews the history of lean manufacturing best practices and explains why a more pragmatic approach to lean manufacturing is now in order. Find out how market forces such as demand variability and supplier fragmentation are affecting manufacturers and what they must do to extend lean- and...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
- The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied...
- White papers 2007-04-20
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- Business power: Running lean, working better, more focused.(Lean Manufacturing)
- Business power: Running lean, working better, more focused By Lisa Harbatkin Implementing process change is only the first step -- the changes and their impact must be regularly evaluated In lean operations, "there's always a better way,"...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Extending Lean Initiatives Across the Organization: How greater efficiencies can extend beyond the manufacturing floor and back-office
- There is a need for managing the front-office with workflow processes in the same vein as managing back-office workflow for production. Business processes—from filling out a purchase request, interacting with business partners, to assigning documents for review and approval—can only be optimized through an organizational initiative. The effectiveness of each...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Can Lean Production Methods Work in Services?
- The Toyota Production Method is a Grade A example of how "lean" production methods help big iron and other manufacturers improve quality, production efficiency and worker satisfaction. (Lean doesn't mean reducing fat, but rather working more efficiently.) Question: Can these same methods that work so well in...
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- An Approach And Interface For Building Generic Manufacturing Kanban-Systems Models
- The white paper asserts that simulation of manufacturing systems, historically the first major application area of discrete-event process simulation, is becoming a steadily more proactive and important strategy for achieving manufacturing efficiency. Concurrently, lean manufacturing has become a nearly essential corporate strategy to compete successfully in an increasingly austere and...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Seminar this week at USU on operational excellence
- LOGAN -- The 29th annual Operational Excellence Seminar at Utah State University takes place Wednesday and Thursday. Top manufacturing and operations management executives from around the world are featured speakers. They include Dave Logozzo, executive director of engineering and manufacturing operations and lean enterprise for Delphi Corp.; and...
- Research articles 2003-09-30
- Adapting Lean For Customized Bank Processes
- Many corporate banks and other financial institutions routinely apply the management principles of lean manufacturing to help standardize straightforward business procedures, such as the straight-through processing of securities transactions. The advantages include speedier operations, lower costs, better products, and an improved customer experience. But many of an institution's most valuable...
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Four-star general says U.S. Air Force personnel cuts unlikely to
- U.S. Air Force Materiel Command commander Gen. Bruce Carlson visited Tinker Air Force Base's Air Logistics Center on Wednesday to review operations and efficiencies gained by streamlining processes at Tinker. The U.S. Air Force is using several civilian efficiency programs, including aspects of Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing's...
- Research articles 2006-05-11
- Using ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning, To Streamline Business Processes
- In every industry, especially in today's tough market, manufacturing companies are working hard to streamline their operations and get lean. Successful initiatives to streamline operations are of paramount importance to companies and the key tool to make this happen for many companies lie in the tools and benefits offered by...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Manufacturers look to ERP for the "granularity" needed for lean, global supply chains (Manufacturing Business Technology)
- There is consensus that software applications are necessary to support Lean operations, especially for global supply chains. The question surrounds what ERP vendors are doing in response. Says Colin Masson, director of supply chain operations for Boston-based AMR Research , "Not only are many of...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- AZ looks to auto plants for efficiency gurus
- Years ago, Japanese car manufacturers turned to management gurus to make their plants more efficient. Now, AstraZeneca is hiring automotive gurus to apply their efficiencies to drug production, the Financial Times reports. It's yet another example of how pharma is borrowing from other industries in an effort to cut costs...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Hillenbrand Industries F1Q08 (Qtr End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. We will take our first question from [Steven Nisan with Mindflow Capital Investments]. Steven Nisan - Mindflow Capital Investment Hi, thank you very much, Peter first of all good job, thanks for always being so often with our shareholders on the call. Peter Soderberg Thank...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-06
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