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- Manufacturers Go Lean and Green
- Industry Week has released its annual survey of U.S. manufacturers and the results show one thing unequivocally: American manufacturers are going lean. 70% of survey respondents reported lean manufacturing initiatives at their plants. The next most popular improvement methodology, Total Quality Management, was adopted at half that rate. ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Visteon-Shanghai Joint Venture Turns to QAD to Enable Lean Manufacturing
- CARPINTERIA, Calif. -- QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADI), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for global manufacturers, has announced that Yanfeng Visteon Automotive Trim Systems LTD has deployed enterprise software applications from QAD to enable lean manufacturing operations and achieve exceptional inventory and manpower efficiencies. The implementation of QAD's Global Enterprise...
- Research articles 2006-06-05
- Prepping the supply base for leaner supply systems.
- Aerospace companies are pursuing lean manufacturing as the production system of the future to reduce cost and waste, speed end-product delivery, and guarantee customer satisfaction. On the supply side, this means they will "pull" material Aerospace companies are pursuing lean manufacturing as the ...
- Research articles 2000-06-01
- Venture Outsource Lean Manufacturing Instruction Endorsed by Toyota Corporate University
- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Venture Outsource, helping technology companies worldwide make smarter business decisions, announced today University of Toyota endorses its lean outsourcing manufacturing seminars taking place in San Jose, September 20-21 and October 24-25. More: http://ventureoutsource.com/events/conferences/leanmanufacturing.html
- Research articles 2006-09-04
- Can flow encompass the supply chain? A new breed of software offers expanded support for flow manufacturing. (Plant Optimization).
- When Cascade Engineering adopted lean manufacturing principles, some of its suppliers struggled through a period of adjustment. Cascade, a $200-million-a-year global manufacturer based in Grand Rapids, Mich., designs and builds durable plastic When Cascade Engineering adopted lean manufacturing principles,...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- 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
- Johnson Controls levels schedules in a lean manufacturing environment (Manufacturing Business Technology)
- Johnson Controls, Holland, Mich., had gone as far as it could with its manual lean-scheduling process. Changes in demand forecasts, customer requirements, supplier capacity, and plain old circumstances could tie down a master scheduler anywhere from Johnson Controls, Holland, Mich., had gone as far as...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Running lean running strong: lean manufacturing processes lead to a stronger, more efficient business. (Management).
- LEAN PRODUCTION is an important feature of modem manufacturing, but it can apply to any business process. Programs such as lean, kaizen and six sigma are frequently used in manufacturing, but what do they mean and how do they apply to distribution? LEAN PRODUCTION...
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- 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
- Managing Erratic Demand: The Multi-Channel Manufacturing Approach
- Contemporary cellular approaches to the development of manufacturing architectures based upon lean manufacturing concepts are often hindered or prevented by the lack of a smooth regular demand for products. This is frequently the case in apparel manufacturing where demand is erratic because of the high variety of end items and...
- White papers 2002-09-25
- 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
- Extending ERP to Achieve Lean Manufacturing in High Mix Environments
- While Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software solutions are important tools for running manufacturing businesses, they lack crucial components necessary to support Lean Manufacturing, particularly in high mix manufacturing. This paper describes the business drivers behind the escalating concerns about manufacturing performance; why ERP systems are unable to support necessary performance...
- White papers 2005-09-06
- Today's Discrete ERP Landscape: Trends, Challenges, And Solutions
- The face of nowadays' manufacturing industry is no longer what it was five or 10 years ago. Consumer demand has driven change in the industry as well as to the technology used when producing goods. Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems have matched these trends, and as a result, compliance, lean...
- White papers 2008-05-09
Additional Resources
- Kaysun Named Lean Initiative and Plastic Supplier of the Year by Rockwell Collins
- Kaysun is only supplier to receive two awards at Rockwell Collinsâ?? 2009 Supplier Conference, confirming Kaysunâ??s excellence in high-tolerance plastics manufacturing and leadership in lean manufacturing operations ...
- Research articles 2009-04-07
- Merillat's quest for optimal manufacturing: Merillat Industries combines Six Sigma, lean manufacturing and Kaizen events in its quest to achieve optimum quality and efficiency in its production and business processes
- Executives at The Masco Builder Cabinet Group MBCG will tell you there's a good reason the company sells more cabinetry for the home than any other manufacturer. It is due, in part, to the implementation of what it calls a "total" manufacturing philosophy--the Masco Production System. What makes this...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Spirent Communications Honors Solectron With 2004 Supplier of the Year Award; Results Driven by Solectron's Lean Principles and Employee Dedication
- MILPITAS, Calif. -- Solectron Corporation (NYSE:SLR), a leading provider of electronics manufacturing and integrated supply chain services, said today its FinePitch Technology business received a 2004 Supplier of the Year Award from Spirent Communications (NYSE:SPM). Spirent, a global provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems, recognized FinePitch for...
- Research articles 2005-05-06
- Enterprise Resource Planning Vendors Address Lean Manufacturing
- Given the current massive interest in lean manufacturing, the time has come for prominent enterprise systems providers to communicate their views and experience in lean manufacturing, and the range of solutions and tools that they offer to support organizations with a lean manufacturing philosophy. What follows are some notable examples...
- White papers 2006-02-20
- Lilly Software Associates Announces Upcoming Regional Lean Manufacturing Seminar Series; Company's Customers to Share Dramatic Success Stories Achieved with Lilly's Lean Solutions
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers HAMPTON, N.H.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 27, 2004 Lilly Software Associates, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise and supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors, and a premier supplier of Lean manufacturing solutions, today announced its upcoming regional Lean Manufacturing Seminar Series. Attendees will hear from Lilly...
- Research articles 2004-05-27
- "Lean" manufacturing engineering
- Nowadays "lean" manufacturing is all the rage at firms that build appliances, aircraft, office furniture, medical instruments, computers-even cedar birdhouses. At any Detroit auto company, and at most first-tier suppliers, manufacturing engineering must conform to the new "lean" way of designing the manufacturing system. What is this "lean movement," and...
- Research articles 1998-06-01
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