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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Get Lean And Improve Quality
- Lean manufacturing is about eliminating muda, or waste, while increasing poke-a-yoke, which means mistake proofing, while always striving for kaizen, or continuous improvement. In a nutshell, lean manufacturing is about examining every process in the company to eliminate non value-added activities. Although some people believe that quality and product are...
- White papers 2003-05-05
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Camstar Announces That Carl Zeiss Meditec Implements System to Take Control of Manufacturing and Quality; Application Enhances Its Already Lean Demand Flow Manufacturing Process
- CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Camstar, the leading provider of Enterprise Manufacturing Execution and Quality Systems for medical device and diagnostics, high technology semiconductor and electronics, and other global manufacturers, announced today that Carl Zeiss Meditec successfully deployed Camstar's Manufacturing Execution System MES, InSite | Medical Device Edition, to increase productivity, improve...
- Research articles 2006-06-06
- Lean Manufacturing and Intercim's MES
- Lean Manufacturing covers a wide spectrum of approaches to improving manufacturing. By providing operators with an environment in which they have all of the information and other tools they need to perform their work effectively, the operators can then be responsible for the quality of their work and of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Lean manufacturing
- LEAN MANUFACTURING Norman Bodek president of PCS Press in Vancouver, WA imported, translated, and popularized many of the Japanese quality tools, techniques, and technologies that transformed American industry in the mid 1980s and 1990s. Here are some of his insights on lean and cellular manufacturing. Whenever I would undertake a...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Lean, green strategies help keep chair maker sitting pretty: lean manufacturing and other waste-saving techniques are helping Nichols & Stone fight imports
- Considered to be the oldest operating residential furniture manufacturer in the United States, Gardner, MA-based Nichols & Stone has survived 150 years of competition. Part of the company's recent success can be attributed to a strategic plan which includes the implementation of lean and other waste-saving manufacturing techniques to speed...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- E-procurement is one tool to reduce costs, cycle lime.(Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control)(Company Profile)
- At Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Dallas, e-procurement is one tool purchasing uses to reduce costs and improve cycle time. Others are lean manufacturing and Six Sigma quality techniques. It was in January 1998, that Bobby Proff ...
- Research articles 2000-09-21
- StockerYale Announces Lean Manufacturing Initiative; Objective to Deliver Quality Improvements, On-Time Deliveries and Shorter Lead Times
- SALEM, N.H -- StockerYale, Inc. (NASDAQ: STKR), a leading independent provider of photonics-based products today announced it has implemented a Lean Manufacturing initiative.
- Research articles 2006-04-26
- 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
- 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
- MKS Instruments Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions. And our first question comes from Brett Hodess with Merrill Lynch. Please go ahead. Joe Herrick - Gutterman Research This is actually [Joe Herrick with Gutterman Research]. Couple of things. Leo, what you guys do in terms of looking at lean manufacturing, keeping...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-07
- Conference to explore lean methods.(with speech from Kenneth G. Kreafle)(Brief Article)
- Manufacturers looking to improve their operations have an opportunity to learn from one of the experts in the field of lean manufacturing at a Jan. 24 conference hosted by Camp Inc. Kenneth G. Kreafle, general manager of quality control and quality engineering for Toyota...
- Research articles 2002-01-07
- Using Lean, Six Sigma, and SCOR to Improve Competitiveness
- Lean Manufacturing focuses on reducing cycle time and increasing process speed. Its goal is the removal of non-value-added process steps or time traps from the process. Lean is a great method to help organize work areas, reduce WIP (Work-In-Process), and speed material flow through the entire manufacturing process. Six Sigma...
- White papers 2003-10-05
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