GE Locomotive lean reduces build cycle time

Local manufacturers leverage lean techniques to transform their business models as the local workforce work through their own personal transformations. ...

... "A move to lean manufacturing at GE Transportation, the region's largest industrial employer, illustrates the changes. ... Today, the company builds an even more complex locomotive in 15 days while working just two shifts. " ...

Via GoErie: .com: Business Profiles Stories - Veteran industrial worker: 'It wasn't the answer for our family anymore'

GE Manufacturing Investments

In response to recent supplier issue, GE highlights its commitment to manufacturing investment. ...

... "GE recently announced several new manufacturing plants and operations in the U.S. that will provide an additional 1,000 new manufacturing jobs over the next few years. These plants will focus on next generation battery and home appliance technology. " ...

Via GE: Supplier Issue

Immelt on GE Lean Operational Capability

GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt discusses the company's Michigan investment and its core capabilities, such as lean and Six Sigma, which positions the company to compete effectively in many markets. ...

... "Through the use of lean manufacturing techniques, our 100-year-old Erie factory can export to Mexico and Brazil. Operational capability is a core part of GE's strategy. " ...

Via Wall Street Jouranl: GE CEO Immelt Speech

Locomotive Lean Manufacturing at GE

GE Lean Manufacturing leader shares his experience with implementing lean in the company's transportation business. The process of locomotive assembly offered opportunity for lean methods to reduce waste and improve cycle times. Driving adoption of lean principle in the workforce has been the primary challenge. ...

... "The idea is to create greater value with less effort by identifying and creating efficiencies. The principle has the chance to restore America to innovative and competitive leadership around the world, and the recession might give it an advantage, McDonnell said. " ...

Via Charleston Regional Business: GE Lean

GE moves beyond Six Sigma to embrace lean manufacturing. ...

GE Locomotive Lean in Transportation Division: "To meet global customer demand and streamline the entire manufacturing process, GE Transportation is studying Toyota and other Lean manufacturing leaders to develop its own production system to manufacture products with less waste, higher quality and higher value to customers than if produced by traditional means. "

GE Locomotive Factory discusses lean adoption.

GE has embedded lean techniques in many business process, including its ecomagination initiative. ...

ecomagination Report (PDF): "GE’s GHG avoidance work at GE Aviation’s outdoor aircraft engine test facility in Peebles, Ohio, where the production team used Lean manufacturing techniques to change its processes to reduce GHG emissions per engine test conducted. "


Talent recruiting and hiring at GE has placed an emphasis on lean experience and implementation. ...

GE Lean Manufacturing Engineer job: "The engineer will work with the manufacturing team to implement strategic changes to the design of locomotive cooling systems. These changes will be necessary to facilitate Lean and Standarization ... "

Lean Energy Efficiency through Hunts

Plant walk-throughs turn into energy hunts to find and eliminate wasted energy, using GE's lean techniques. ...

... "Energy Treasure Hunt, a lean manufacturing process developed by Toyota and refined by GE, combines the best elements of our culture to drive energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the company. " ...

Via GreenBiz: GE Energy Savings

Virtua Six Sigma Credit Strength

Fitch affirms strong credit rating for Virtua Health based on managements adoption and rollout of Six Sigma improvement methods. Six Sigma has improved the company's operating performance and profit margins have expanded. ...

... "Virtua's operating results in recent years show a marked improvement over the earlier part of the decade, when Virtua's operating margins ranged from 4% to (-0.4%) in years 2000 to 2004. Much of the improvement in operational performance is attributed by management to its use of GE management tools (Six Sigma, Best People, Workouts). Virtua was one of the original organizations to adopt GE's management tools in a health care setting, and Fitch views Virtua's management's adoption of and ongoing commitment to these tools as a credit strength. " ...

Via PR: Fitch Rates Virtua Health A

Healthcare Facility Efficiency

GE offers insights into an efficient healthcare facility validation process, where Lean Six Sigma methods can play a role. ...

... "As part of overall project management, we also apply operational excellence methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma where appropriate. " ...

Via European Pharmaceutical Technology: GE Healthcare

GE Immelt Six Sigma Leadership

GE CEO Immelt sees 2009 as an opportunity to exhibit real leadership. ...

... "Is Mr. Immelt a Six Sigma expert, or Black Belt as they're called? No, he confessed. I never was. " ...

Via Washington Times: Jeffrey Immelt, GE

Lean Six Sigma Work Flow Improves Operational Efficiency

GE brings Lean Six Sigma methods to create efficiencies in the healthcare process. Mt Sinai will leverage improved processes and systems to deliver a dynamic response to problems. ...

... "In the early phase of the agreement, GE Healthcare experts in Lean Six Sigma process management will work with Mount Sinai staff and GE Healthcare’s AgileTracTM automated workflow and visualization system to track and optimize the most important patient care pathways. This phase will enable hospital staff and administration to observe their clinical pathways and allow the hospital to visualize problems and develop real time solutions. Together, Mount Sinai and GE will gather real-time data on clinical workflow patterns throughout the 1,171-bed, 2.7 million square foot tertiary-care hospital to highlight process bottlenecks and showcase areas of improvement. The goal is to streamline patient flow, improve operational efficiency, and decrease patients length of stay by decreasing wait times and freeing up capacity that has been, until this project, untapped. " ...

Via General Electric: Patient Flow and Asset Management

PackML Automation Enables Root Cause Analysis of Event Data

GE Fanuc embraces PLC standards that enable continuous improvement through identification and resolution of root causes involving manufacturing events. ...

... "Integrating OMAC’s PackML and Packtag standards into an automation solution reduces the burden of handshaking between PLCs on a coordinated line. The result: faster line rates can be maintained, and improved coordination can reduce the need for buffering conveyance and/or accumulators. Furthermore, these control-layer standards can actually reach well beyond the registers in a control system: by reducing the forensic work needed to integrate machines on disparate platforms, PackTags and PackML lay the foundation to easily and consistently interpret the event data that resides in the controllers of packaging lines. And it is this data that powers the root cause analysis needed to identify and engineer out sources of inefficiencies. " ...

Via GE Fanuc: OMAC Make2Pack Standards Accelerate Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Initiatives

NBC Six Sigma Retooling

NBC is using Six Sigma to improve its processes in the TV network space and has positioned itself for a transformation versus its peers. ...

... "they are clearly retooling NBC in the Six Sigma spirit that parent General Electric pioneered - streamlining, cutting costs, and maximizing efficiency in every minute aspect of their production and distribution processes. " ...

Via Seeking Alpha: TV Networks

TRIZ for Powering Innovation Chain

Corporations, such as GE, look to various methods such as TRIZ to power the front end of their innovation chain. TRIZ adds rigor and multiple perspectives to the process of product development. ...

... "TRIZ is coming on strong at corporations hungry for new ways to improve innovation and productivity beyond what they've already achieved with the widely adopted Six Sigma and Lean techniques. " ...

Via BusinessWeek: Tech Innovations

Six Sigma Banking Model

The financial industry seeks new business models to regain profitability. ...

... "I know a former BofA bank official who quit because he could not stand BofA CEO’s Kenneth Lewis’s aping General Electric intense focus on quality through Six Sigma management. " ...

Via BNET Financial Services Blog: Banking Models

GE Six Sigma Does Not Translate Well

General Electric Six Sigma has not translated easily to other companies where GE alumni have migrated and its disciplined approach does not mesh well with new product innovations. ...

... "It was going to take Six Sigma to standardize our processes, like Metamucil; make us regular, make us predictable, pacified and of course, profitable. So, without trying I can count on both hands and feet the number of former GE’ers who flopped miserably at managing, and failed to bring about the joyous resurrection they had been anointed for, at ALL levels of organization. " ...

Via Product Design and Development: New Product Development, NPD

GE Six Sigma Exec Named EVP of CFM

GE Six Sigma executive will lead CFM's programs as EVP. ...

... "Mr. Chahrour was appointed as GE Aviation's Engineering Six Sigma Master Black Belt, where he helped launch the GE's overall Six Sigma strategy, plan, and organization. In 1997, he was named as GE90 engine product line General Manager. " ...

Via CFM International: Chaker A. Chahrour

CEO Career Path Enabled by Six Sigma Quality

GE reaches into its deep bench of quality talent to staff its CEO position for the aviation division. ...

... "Joyce joined GE in 1980 as a product engineer and spent 15 years in design and development of GE's commercial and military engines. He also held positions in customer and product support and in quality as a Six Sigma Black Belt. He earned both bachelor's of science and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and holds a master's in business finance from Xavier University. Joyce succeeds Scott C. Donnelly, who has taken a position with Textron. " ...

Via GE Aviation: Joyce Named President and CEO

Six Sigma Fever Challenges GE

GE may be a victim of its past successes, as it becomes challenging for the current CEO, Immelt, to replicate the stellar performance of the GE of the past, with Jack Welch at the helm, which leveraged Six Sigma for consistent operating efficiencies coupled with growth gains. ...

... "The 40-plus price-to-earnings multiple came from a nutty euphoria generated by recurring Fortune covers, Six-Sigma fever, unnaturally consistent earnings and Welch’s need to publicly front the narrative. " ...

Via Portfolio: Jeff Immelt

Six Sigma Growth Checklist

Checklist for growing your business includes Six Sigma checklist. ...

... "Entrepreneur suggests that you rate yourself with this checklist based on questions developed by General Electric's Six Sigma black belts. " ...

Via Gazette: Business growth

Six Sigma Culture Incompatible at GE Division

Even in the bastion of Six Sigma, GE, there exists barriers to cultural adoption. ...

... "frequently called for the sale of NBC Universal because of its declining revenue and GE's Six Sigma discipline not being compatible with Hollywood sensibilities. " ...

Via BloggingStocks: GE Volatility

Six Sigma Data Analysis Approach Improves Business Intelligence

For companies to reap the value of business intelligence, competence in data analysis is key to success. An enterprise with Six Sigma experience will have a head start due to the data analysis discipline instilled in the DMAIC process. ...

... "Most organizations don't do this, though through the Six Sigma programs that some companies, like GE run, many more people are now being trained in this way. Their use of information in decision making changes dramatically after this type of training. " ...

Via destinationCRM: Business Intelligence

Innovation Transformation on Six Sigma Foundation

GE is seen as one of the world's most innovative enterprises according to recent poll. ...

... "Building on its traditional Six Sigma, efficiency culture, GE is striving to creative a new innovative culture under the banner of eco-imagination. " ...

Via Business Week: GE Innovation

GE Six Sigma Creates Auto Industry Leaders

XPEL Technologies appoints Steven J. McAuley, GE Six Sigma business leader, as its new Chief Executive Officer. This GE veteran can leverage XPEL's product strengths and information technologies as a competitive advantage. ...

... "Prior to joining UAG, Mr. McAuley served as Managing Director and Corporate Officer for G.E. Fleet Services within the United Kingdom. During his tenure with G.E., he was responsible for assets of $900 million, annual revenues of $225 million, and a workforce of 350. Mr. McAuley has been six-sigma certified through the G.E. Corporation. " ...

Via XPEL: AUTO INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE JOINS XPEL AS CEO

SixSigma CEO: New Business Pedigree

Larry Ryan, PhD and Six Sigma-certified business leader, is named the new Chief Executive Officer of SulphCo. ...

... "Dr. Ryan comes to SulphCo from the General Electric Advanced Materials Division, where he led the Elastomers and RTV business. Dr. Ryan has a PhD from the University of Delaware, a Six-Sigma Blackbelt certification, and a long history of working with chemical process-dependent technologies. " ...

Via Yahoo! Finance: SulphCo Appoints New CEO and Chairman ...