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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
- Weathering The Tough Businesses Climate
- From the executive summary: ‘Manufacturing plants have traditionally produced large lot sizes based on forecast, with batches pushed from department to department by people trained in limited, repetitive tasks. However, it is becoming clear that this approach leads to excessive inventories, long customer lead times, unnecessary material handling, wasted time,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- 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
- Achieving Lean Distribution
- From the executive summary: ‘Lean manufacturing is helping producers throughout the world reduce inventories, lower labor costs, and increase their overall efficiencies. The same concepts embraced by lean manufacturing practitioners can help distributors achieve the goal of effective inventory management. Effective inventory management allows an organization to meet or exceed...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Writing A New Chapter
- This case study is the sample of Kansas City workers' involvement in Exide's Customer-focused Excellence Lean Leadership EXCELL. When it's Total Productive Maintenance event addressed a lifting problem, Exide's battery plant in Kansas City took a step in the right direction by placing the fate of its lean manufacturing initiative...
- Case studies 2002-11-01
- Kaizen At Fleetwood
- This article highlights a case of RV manufacturer who reinvigorated its process with less-in-more approach. Fleetwood RV's plant was having growing pains. Despite a slow start--the oil embargo kept the plant from opening until 1984, five years after it was built--by 1997 its annual gross sales had reached $110 million...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Successful Lean Manufacturing
- This implementation case study is a real company with real people. The case study covers certain issues like variance of product mix. The allocations of too much overhead cost to high volume products and not enough to low volume results in difference of order level. The study captures that the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Lot Sizing & Lean Manufacturing Strategy
- Small lot production ideally one piece is an important component of any Lean Manufacturing strategy. Small lots reduce variability in the system and smooth production. The Lean Manufacturing literature gives little guidance on lot sizing. It offers a rational alternative to the slogans and edicts. It also explains the fact...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Designing a Lean Manufacturing Training Plan
- This article is about Lean Manufacturing which requires significant training for everyone in the organization. A Training Plan is important for the Lean Manufacturing Strategy. People will require training in three areas: Team Processes, Process Design & Process Management, Job Skills. Also it includes information about how to develop a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- 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
- Rayban Case Study - Cutting Component Costs and Increasing Profitability
- "This worldwide manufacturer of many top-label brands identified that they were losing sales because they couldn't respond rapidly to the demands of the market. The rate of sale of new products is especially unpredictable in such a high fashion, season-sensitive business and they found they could only...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Constant Work-In-Process (CONWIP) vs Kanban
- Article states that Kanban control may not be the most efficient option for all types of lean manufacturing systems. The strategy involves the circulation of cards, the kanbans, between a machine and a downstream buffer to control production. This process ensures that parts are not made except in response to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Establishing Standards For Automotive Inventory Visibility & Interoperability
- As globalization, competition, and downward price pressures show no signs of easing, lean manufacturing - matching supply to demand, eliminating waste, and streamlining operations - still holds great promise for automotive suppliers to meet these challenges. The common denominator in most lean manufacturing initiatives is inventory. Inventory is the crucial...
- White papers 2004-12-03
- Empowering The Lean Value Chain
- This white paper addresses the application of lean manufacturing techniques within the enterprise and across the supply chain, and introduces QAD's new Lean Manufacturing module as an effective and comprehensive means of achieving that goal. It explains how lean manufacturing has proved itself in the field - and where we...
- White papers 2005-06-29
- 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
- The Stress of Resisting Change: A Leader's Guide to Turn Resistance Into Acceptance
- Lean Manufacturing is revolutionizing the culture and the attitudes of the global business world. The evolution of the Kaizen process and technology is breathing new life into troubled companies, streamlining service organizations, and bringing the thinking of continuous process improvements to top-level management everywhere on earth. Even though the commitment...
- White papers 2004-02-21
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