Realizing Lean Entrepreneurship

What we are all striving for: Create a culture of continuous improvement built on a foundation of lean and integrate it with a workforce that thinks like an owner. SRCHoldings spreads their model for workforce entrepreneurs. ...

... "He had the factory humming on the track of continuous improvement and lean manufacturing. Now, we needed to take them into entrepreneurial mode. " ...

Via New York Times: Starting Over in Lexington

Lean Applied to Capital Project Management

Fiatech presents a web seminar that looks at Toyota's lean manufacturing principles applied to the capital project management process on June 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT. ...

... "This webinar will deliver high level awareness of what LEAN is and how some of its systems can be utilized in managing and executing capital as well as expense programs. " ...

Via Fiatech: Program Management Utilizing LEAN

Met-Pro Flexible Manufacturing Strategy

Met-Pro sees its revenue and earnings impacted by the downturn, but uses lean and flexible strategies to sustain profit margins. ...

... "Gross margins in the quarter remained strong, reflecting the continued progress of our efficiency initiatives, including global sourcing, more effective logistics, and lean manufacturing, as well as the ability of our flexible manufacturing strategy to quickly adjust costs to match our level of business activity. " ...

Via PR Newswire: Met-Pro Corp First Quarter Results

Met-Pro incorporates outsourced or contract manufacturing in its business model. ...

Met-Pro Corp via Seeking Alpha: "One of the things you got to look at, Leonard, is we do a lot of outsourcing. When you look at Met-Pro, we have several facilities that are manufacturing facilities, but a number of our business, for instance, Flex-Kleen or Systems business, they do not manufacture anything in house. Okay? So they buy it outside and that – what that does for us is we're able to accelerate our ability to meet the demands of the market, but also when the market is slow we're able to cut back more quickly than most people that have manufacturing facilities. "

Lean Machine Shop

Flowserve Six Sigma CIP

Flowserve focuses its Lean Six Sigma program on activities that will improve the customer experience, increase productivity, and expand margins. ...

... "We continue to focus on improving on-time delivery and quality, while reducing warranty costs as a percentage of sales across our global operations, through the assistance of a focused Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) initiative. The goal of the CIP initiative, which includes lean manufacturing, six sigma business management strategy and value engineering, is to maximize service fulfillment to customers through on-time delivery, reduced cycle time and quality at the highest internal productivity. This program is a key factor in our margin expansion plans. " ...

Via Flowserve Corporation: 10K SEC Filing

Lean Product Development

Perot Systems focuses on lean techniques in product development. ...

Kaizen Medical Performance

The NHS changes the way it works to make sure patients always come first, using kaizen methods to engage and empower their workforce. ...

... "Scores of frontline staff were asked to submit their ideas on improving the way the NHS is run under a new lean management scheme. " ...

Via Scotsman: NHS Recognized For Kaizen Approach