Lean Evangelist

John Grabner and Cardinal Fastener embrace lean manufacturing to achieve market success in producing hot forged bolts. ...

... "Grabner, who hosted President-elect Obama last February, is also an evangelist for lean thinking, a manufacturing philosophy initially associated with Toyota Corp.'s lean manufacturing but today a way of thinking that can transform a company's culture from the shop floor to the front office. " ...

Via cleveland.com: John Grabner of Cardinal Fastener

Lean Function Transformation

Shared services functions, such as IT, finance, and procurement, are undergoing transformations that require lean thinking. For example, IT needs to reduce its systems complexity, while providing competitive advantage through real-time business performance visualization. ...

... "Every function within the company is going to undergo some transformation within the company because of these pressures. The emphasis on lean manufacturing that has dominated for the last 10 years is going to become even more pronounced. " ...

Via Crain's Detroit: Jay Gleischman Insights

Lean Government Says Manufacturing

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... expect government to adopt lean thinking to streamline their processes. ...

... "business coalition's call for state budget overhaul, urging officials to employ lean-manufacturing standards to cut waste in departments on the state payroll. " ...

Via MLive: Business owners lobby

Enterprise Lean Initiatives

JDA Software sees lean thinking as a model for transformation of the manufacturing enterprise and shares next-generation supply chain strategies to position for success. ...

... "Commit to Lean on an Enterprise-wide Basis: The primary goals of traditional lean manufacturing – drive out inefficiencies, reduce costs and waste, increase value and decrease variability – remain the same today. Only now these goals need to be embraced across the extended enterprise – both internally and externally with supply chain partners. In today’s dynamic business environment, virtually all operation processes are interrelated and disruptions along the extended supply chain need to be responded to quickly and in real-time. Confining lean to a single manufacturing facility or production area is not sufficient. Lean initiatives cannot work if done in isolation because changes made in siloed functional areas, such as manufacturing, distribution or transportation – or even at the local, regional or country level – can have unintended consequences that can lead to problems or increased costs in other areas. The most effective lean initiatives focus on the extended supply chain. For this reason, companies are deploying advanced modeling tools that can consider all costs and provide optimized strategies across a comprehensive supply chain network of distribution centers, plants, contract manufacturing partners, sourcing options and logistical lanes. " ...

Via JDA Software: Supply Chain Strategies to Improve Business Performance

Hospital Lean Thinking Enabled By RFID Technology

Hospital will digitize lean thinking through the use of RFID technology in healthcare processes. ...

... "HealthIT Cluster chief executive Andrea Pettet says the trial aims to use RFID tagging to ease overcrowding in emergency departments, using the principles of lean thinking. " ...

Via Stuff.co.nz: Hospital Patient Tracking

Hospital Operational Efficiency