Green manufacturing imperative

Dow Corning CEO weighs in on renewable energy policies to spur the creation and growth of the green value chain in the United States. ...

... "Rep. Sander Levin: If we are not aggressive about expanding our green manufacturing capacity, these manufacturing jobs will be created overseas and the United States will become more reliant on products that are produced outside of our borders ... " ...

Via The Detroit News: Dow Corning CEO

Exacto Capacity Design for Lean and Quality

Exacto is in a position to expand its capacity to meet growing demand of its products, while designing for lean operations and ensuring quality management practices. ...

... "increase its capacity to develop, manufacture and distribute adjuvant products that enhance chemicals used for crop protection, pest control and vegetation management through a move to larger quarters custom-designed for lean manufacturing and quality control. " ...

Via Earth Times, Exacto Inc.: Doubling Space to Accommodate Demand

Lean Production Capacity Booster

UK manufacturer of sustainable power systems sees demand for their efficient products and expands manufacturing capacity while integrating lean methods to increase efficiency and throughput. The company has opened a factory in Salford, Greater Manchester in UK. ...

... "The company has increased its production of CHP units by 50%, and is aiming to boost production further by introducing lean manufacturing techniques and smarter working practices among its staff. " ...

Via New Energy Focus: ENER-G Capacity Expansion

The new production facility will build upon a foundation of lean manufacturing principles. ...

Energ-E Expansion: "ENER-G will train its factory team in lean manufacturing techniques to introduce smarter working practices and processes that will boost efficiency and ensure faster turnaround of customer orders. As such, initial growth will be absorbed by existing staff, but new jobs will be created as production increases further. "

Lean Manufacturing Productivity Enhancer

Boeing's CEO uses multiple methods, such as lean and voice of customer, to transform business performance. In this example, he uses lean to improve cycle times and increase production capacity. ...

... "And at Boeing he used Lean Manufacturing -- another productivity enhancement tool -- to cut in half the time it takes to assemble a 737, from 22 days to 11 days, to save hundreds of millions of dollars, and to increase capacity without adding new plant. " ...

Via BloggingStocks: CEO Biz tips

Healthcare CEO Six Sigma Methods

Executive leverages Six Sigma methods in the healthcare industry and advances his career through continuous improvement achievements. ...

... "He is credited with bringing Six Sigma scientific management methodologies in conjunction with other innovative technologies to improve overall capacity management at Mercy Hospital. Under his leadership, Mercy Hospital was able to reduce discharge time by 23 percent, reduce bad debt by 11 percent, increase cash flow, and improve associate satisfaction at the hospital. " ...

Via : Bertrand Chaffee Hospital

Manufacturing Capacity Increase through Lean Program

Electronics manufacturer uses lean manufacturing to drive capacity improvements, using the methodology and tools. ...

... "The Leicester-based power resistor manufacturer Cressall Resistors is claiming that a lean manufacturing programme has helped increase turnover by 100 percent in 18 months ... " ...

Via Works Management: Lean

Chief Lean Officer Focuses on World-Class Efficiency

Intermet Corporation names Bob Flaherty into a newly created position of Chief Lean Officer to lead and mentor the company to world-class levels of efficiency. The new position reports the the CEO, Jeff Mihalic. ...

... "In his new role, Flaherty will work collaboratively with Intermet group presidents and the company's 10 plants to achieve world-class efficiencies while building upon the excellent lean foundation already in place throughout Intermet.

Previously, Flaherty spent nearly eight years at Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown, Ky., where he held various positions and responsibilities including start up preparation, training of associates on the Toyota Production System, various Production Engineering kaizen initiatives, and management of the stamping plant expansion. " ...

Via Intermet: Bob Flaherty Joins Intermet to Head Lean Initiatives

Manage Constraints for Improvements

Constraints management looks for opportunities to increase or remove capacity constraints and for policy constraints where business rules hand-cuff the workforce from running the business successfully. ...

... "Constraints management looks at the business as chains of dependent events and focuses improvement efforts on the weak links in the chains. On the face of it, the inclusion of yet another sophisticated business process might seem to lead to excessive complexity. " ...

Via Supply Chain Management Review: Constraints Management Enhances Lean and Six Sigma

SixSigma Supports Capacity Increase at Dow

Dow Chemical leverages Six Sigma to optimize its production operations through less capital-intensive solutions to capacity. ...

... "Mady Bricco, global product director, Propylene Oxide and Propylene Glycols: To meet rising demand, we will expand our PG production at Stade through two expansion projects and have optimized operations at our other facilities, through Six Sigma, technology enhancements, process automation and other improvements. We are pleased that we were able to identify these low-capital solutions to meet our customers' demands and support the growth of downstream businesses. " ...

Via Dow Chemical: Dow Announces Increased Global PO and PG Capacity