Lenovo Lean Six Sigma Cost Improvement

Lenovo operating performance is strong and the company deals with market demand shifts using Lean and Six Sigma to drive operational efficiencies in the supply chain. ...

... "The PC market continued to experience customers shifting in greater numbers from desktop to laptop PCs, and accordingly, Lenovo has implemented Lean Six Sigma throughout its global supply chain, and worked closely with our suppliers, to deliver end-to-end cost improvements. " ...

Via Lenovo: THIRD QUARTER 2009/10 RESULTS (PDF)

Kaizen Factory Configuration

Weyerhaeuser Lean Manufacturing Principles Aggressive Cost Reduction

Weyerhaeuser embraces lean principles to reduce working capital tied up in inventory. ...

... "Each of our businesses has also aggressively reduced costs. With products, for example, was making fundamental changes that will carry into stronger markets. This includes lowering product inventories by applying well known lean manufacturing principles to lower inventory levels in our replenishment system. " ...

Via Seeking Alpha: Weyerhaeuser Company Q4 2009

ISM on Sustained Manufacturing Growth

PolyOne Accelerates Six Sigma Catching Up to Competition

Polyone leadership reviews the year's results which were positive despite the economic circumstances. Management is rapidly implementing Lean Six Sigma to drive its performance and avoid the adoption barriers experienced by its competition. ...

... "This substantial improvement in our financial position resulted from a company wide effect to cut costs, prune on profitable or high credit-risk business and expand margins of reduced working capital. These improvements were facilitated and accelerated by our newly launched Lean Six Sigma efforts. You follow many companies out there and you frequently hear them reference Lean Six Sigma principles and initiatives they employ to reduce waves and improve efficiency across their business prosthesis. Many do this very well and have been reaping benefits for years. Admittedly PolyOne was late to the game in adopting this framework, but we are off to a really terrific start. " ...

Via Seeking Alpha: PolyOne Corp 4Q09 Earnings Discussion by Management

BASF Lean Six Sigma Community

BASF creates a community of Lean and Six Sigma practitioners among its ecosystem of customers in the automotive paint space. ...

... "BASF’s program was developed in-house by its team of Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts and collision industry experts. The entire curriculum was designed with the intent to teach collision centers ... " ...

Via Search AutoParts, Automotive Body Repair: BASF customer lean program

Infor Lean Manufacturing Enabler

C/G Electrodes selects Infor ERP to support its lean manufacturing practices and drive efficiency in its business processes. The company is driving speed to market through greater process visibility. ...

... "ERP SyteLine will help C/G Electrodes meet its goal of shortening time-to-market by providing greater accuracy, detail and speed of information across the complex processes required for hybrid manufacturing. Also key to C/G Electrodes' selection of ERP SyteLine was the solution's analytic and reporting capabilities, which quickly deliver critical information to users without disruption to daily operations. This functionality will enable primary decision makers to make the choices they need to be more competitive and enhances workforce productivity. " ...

Via Infor: Lean Manufacturing Gains at C/G Electrodes

DuPont Six Sigma Integration

Dupont integrates Six Sigma into its legal processes, driving operational efficiencies for the legal department and its suppliers. ...

... "We have a very active Six Sigma program, and that has really served us well in terms of taking a look at defects that we have within our processes and eliminating them. " ...

Via The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel: DuPont Legal

Medco Health Six Sigma

Medco CEO discusses the transformation of its enterprise business model over the lifecycle of the company. ...

... "Later we created and then perfected mail-order pharmacy, using proprietary robotics in tandem with technologies guided by six sigma disciplines that set a new standard for dispensing accuracy ... " ...

Via Wall Street Journal: David B. Snow, Jr., CEO, MedcoHealth

Kaizen Time during Toyota Downtime

With the production line stopped, Toyota workers can implement their continuous improvement ideas from their kaizen events. ...

... "They will be offered the opportunity to do training exercises or discuss ways they can improve their processes, the kaizen concept for which Toyota is famed. " ...

Via Kentucky dot com: KY Toyota workers

Bison Gear Lean Six Sigma

Fifty year old manufacturing company celebrates its history, while driving forward into the future on a foundation of Lean Six Sigma. ...

... "Bison employs Baldrige criteria for performance excellence and drives a Lean Six Sigma enterprise to ensure customer satisfaction, while still serving its first OEM customer. " ...

Via POWDER/BULK SOLIDS: 50th Anniversary

PolyOne Lean Six Sigma Startup Drives Adoption Rates

PolyOne Corp is recognized for its Lean Six Sigma deployment, which has achieved 25% penetration in its workforce across all business lines and functions. ...

... "PolyOne was presented with the Process Excellence Award for Best Start-up Program during the International Quality and Productivity Centre’s 11th Annual Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Summit in Orlando, Florida. A panel of industry experts selected PolyOne from a pool of 400 entrants. In the Best Start-up category, judges evaluated the transformation of the six finalists based on their ability to set organizational direction, deliver business benefits, and initiate a culture change during the annual gathering of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and process improvement thought leaders. " ...

Via PolyOne: Best Lean Six Sigma Deployment

Six Sigma Shift Happens

WSJ article confronts the challenge of implementing Six Sigma without a continuous improvement culture. Shift happens. Which usually results in back-slide of performance. A robust control phase, in the DMAIC process, should work to sustain the achieved performance level and proactively identify shifts before its impacts the process. ...

... "one aerospace company that implemented more than 100 improvement projects, only to determine less than two years later that more than half had failed to generate lasting gains. " ...

Via Wall Street Journal: Six Sigma Failure

Nike Lean Considered Design

Nike discusses its progress in sustainability which includes an implementation of lean across its value chain, integrating partners in the process. ...

... "The company has made sound progress on many fronts such as implementing Lean and Human Resource Management training in contract factories and reducing waste and toxics and increasing its use of environmentally preferred materials throughout Considered Design performance products. " ...

Via Nike: Global Strategy for Sustainable Business

Microsoft Dynamics Software Lean Manufacturing Models

Internal Supply Chain Planning Improvement

Harsco Corp selects IBM to lead its business transformation initiative that will create an intelligent supply chain built on operational excellence. ...

... "IBM will perform an analysis to determine where improvements in Harsco's supply chain can be made. IBM will then develop the roadmap for a fully integrated supply chain that encompasses sourcing, procurement, logistics, planning (demand and supply), inventory and order management, and cash management. Work is scheduled to begin this month with IBM teams in place at Harsco's headquarters. " ...

Via IBM: Global Supply Chain Initiative

Lean Six Sigma used to understand Healthcare Tragedy

Hospital deploys LSS to improve services and understand ER tragedy. ...

... "Aria has initiated a thorough Lean Six Sigma process to review Emergency Department throughput. As part of this review, engineering consultants are using sophisticated simulation technology to determine the most effective management processes for patient throughput and flow. " ...

Via cbs3: Statement On Death

Lean Six Sigma Cost-Cutting Program

Lean Six Sigma integrated into an enterprise program can be used to drive operational efficiencies across an organization. ...

... "Nevertheless, a large proportion of respondents note that company-wide-improvement programs -- such as lean or Six Sigma -- were strong motivators as well. " ...

Via Forbes: Cost-Cutting