Lean Workforce Impacts
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... "teamed up with the Green Suppliers Network to explore opportunities for helping its suppliers improve product quality and to reduce the environmental footprint of its supply chain through the Network's hallmark—the Lean and Clean Advantage. McNeil first began investigating lean manufacturing concepts after the facility was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in late 2006. " ...
Labels: clean-tech, efficiency, jnj, lean, mcneil-ppc, sustainability
... "Wasted time can be difficult to identify, so many companies specifically focus on reducing time as a key driver of Lean Implementation; agility and Lean go hand in hand. " ...
Labels: agility, customer-value, cycle-time, drivers, lean, quality-improvement, speed, transformation, waste-reduction
... "The intent of the grant is seed money to start a cultural shift to a LEAN manufacturing culture, said Steve Kullberg, director of operations at Florida's Natural. " ...
Labels: academia-polk-state-college, culture, lean, shift-thinking, training
... "The session, called Creating a Sustainable Lean Transformation, will run from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Crowne Plaza Williamsburg at Fort Magruder, 6945 Pocahontas Trail. " ...
Labels: lean, manufacturing-industry, session, sustain, transformation, workshop
... "Lean, says Dan, begins with engaging the staff in improving work, liberating the potential to take action. But, he warns, point improvements are hard to sustain without an end-to-end perspective and management systems to support them. "
Labels: hospital, lean, lean-healthcare, management-process, patient-quality
Labels: education, flow-techniques, lean, simulations, training, workshop
... "We will continue to invest heavily in our valued employees in the areas of professional development including Design for Six Sigma, project management and Lean. These platforms will enable us to add more value to our customers, and innovate a wider and deeper breadth of product offerings with increased velocity. " ...

Labels: accelerate, design-for-six-sigma, dfss, lean, new-products, northwire-inc, npd, platform, project-management
... "The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. " ...
Labels: adoption, best-practices, disruptive, experiment, foundation, innovation, integration, lean, lean-startup, life-cycle-assessment, manufacturing-excellence, methodology, startup-companies
... "Alexander W. Masetti has been appointed vice president, Continuous Improvement, responsible for expanding and institutionalizing Air Products’ overall continuous improvement activity, including capabilities such as Six Sigma and Lean. Masetti joined Air Products in 1981 as an engineer in the company’s Career Development Program and subsequently held management positions within the Process Gas Division. " ...

Labels: activity, air-products, capabilities, continuous-improvement, executive, leadership, lean, organization, six-sigma
... "Optimizing Your Investment In Lean: Presented by the Hudson Valley Technology Development Center Inc., The Council of Industry of Southeastern New York, and The Tappan Zee Chapter of APICS. Featured speaker Dr. Alan G. Robinson from the University of Massachusetts, Isenberg School of Management will be discussing strategic issues surrounding lean manufacturing and innovation. " ...
Labels: event, investment, lean, optimization, optimize, seminar
Labels: course, education, lean, lego-airplane, online-courses, simulations
... "New layers of managerial waste and delays may eat up the apparent savings in cost reduction in time to market. " ...
Labels: cost-control, cycle-time, lean, methods, time-to-market, waste
... "Through exhaustive effort, working 10 or more hours every day, 50 areas of opportunity were documented and prioritized by their level of impact and difficulty to implement. " ...
Labels: actions, education, impact, implementation, kaizen, kaizen-blitz, lean, opportunity-management, principles
... "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. " ...
Labels: enterprise, erp, erp-software, goal-alignment, jda-software, lean, lean-manufacturing, lean-thinking, supply-chain, variability, variation
... "Lean has become more of displaying numbers, reorganizing the floor and such, but still most businesses shrink as there is little focus on customers and not much impact on growth. " ...
Labels: customer-focus, lean, manufacturing-excellence, profitability, strategies, workforce
... "Schenck Business Solutions will be hosting a lean office boot camp for businesses, nonprofits and government organizations. " ...
Labels: bootcamp, lean, lean-office, office, training

... "At its most fundamental level, a lean approach to manufacturing entails just what you'd expect: stripping away the excess. Going lean means cutting costs and boosting efficiency at every stage of the manufacturing process. " ...
Labels: approach, cost-reduction, efficiency, lean, lean-manufacturing, manufacturing-excellence, manufacturing-process, process-management, reduce-waste
Labels: lean, lean-manufacturing, mapping, methodology, methods, software-products, techniques, tools, value-stream-map
... "Our efforts and our energy is put toward higher value, latest methods, lean manufacturing, Sheffler said. Advanced manufacturing jobs tend to require higher skill sets, pay more and use costly automated equipment, which increases investment. " ...
Labels: automation, career, investment, jobs, lean, lean-manufacturing, methods, payoff, skills, value-delivery
... "Manufacturers applying Six Sigma and Lean are eager to remove waste completely from their value streams, which includes avoiding the production of defective materials in the first place, states John Fishell, director of product management ... " ...
Labels: cost-control, defect, eliminate-defects, lean, quality-control, six-sigma, value-stream-map, waste-reduction
... "The facility has adopted lean manufacturing practices such as Kaizen and Six Sigma methods, all with an eye toward continuous facility and product improvement. The company follows a 16-point plan that has cut manufacturing cycle times in half compared to earlier attempts to reduce overall production times. " ...
Labels: culture, cycle-time, kaizen, lean, manufacturer, planning, process-excellence, product-quality, production-system, six-sigma, vectron-international
... "Finally, six sigma is also making gains in financial services however the focus here is on revenue enhancing projects and not just cost reduction initiatives ... " ...
Labels: aviation, cost-reduction, financial-services, lean, pharmaceutical, revenue, transactional-six-sigma
... "The Lean Assessment Tool lets users upload hundreds of parts histories and then graphically visualize their current replenishment patterns along with future potential opportunities. Ultriva’s patent-pending consumption-driven replenishment algorithms allow users to perform what if simulations in real time. " ...
Labels: assessment, lean, opportunity-management, simulations, tools, ultriva, visualize
... "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 ... " ...
Labels: benefits-realization, capacity-increase, cressall-resistors, electronics-manufacturing, lean, lean-manufacturing, program-management
... "IBM's Green Sigma consulting offering is based on Lean Six Sigma, a business strategy for carefully analyzing operations to improve overall efficiency, lower costs, increase quality, and add, change or eliminate activities and processes to improve overall performance. IBM's Green Sigma consulting offering is based on Lean Six Sigma, a business strategy for carefully analyzing operations to improve overall efficiency, lower costs, increase quality, and add, change or eliminate activities and processes to improve overall performance. " ...
Labels: business-strategy, efficiency, energy-reduction, green-sigma, ibm, lean
... "The 2nd Annual Summit on Deploying the Toyota Production System & Lean Healthcare in Hospitals, When: Jun 25, 2008, Where: Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA " ...
Labels: conference, deployment, healthcare, hospital, lean, seminar, toyota-production-system, tps
... "While thousands of companies have used the tools of Lean such as Value Stream Mapping to re-engineer business process, rarely did those analyses well-consider the possibilities of mobile, connected workers. " ...
Labels: lean, mobile, mobility, shop-floor-control, value-stream-map, work-force
... "The Lean Leadership Development Series is offered by the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) in cooperation with Fox Valley Technical College. WMEP experts will lead the sessions that meet from 8 a.m. until noon, Tuesdays, April 22 through May 20 at the D.J. Bordini Center, Fox Valley Technical College. " ...
Labels: development, education, leadership, lean, seminar, session, state-wisconsin
... "One approach is to integrate the chartering activity from the Six Sigma roadmap at the outset of the Kaizen blitz. The chartering exercise is crucial at the beginning of a Lean Kaizen in order to establish clear project success metrics, definition, expectations, communication, and milestones. " ...
Labels: kaizen, kaizen-blitz, lean, lean-kaizen, project-charter, project-management, project-selection, success-factors
... "For the dental office, this means small things - like arranging sterilization areas in a way that minimizes steps - as well as large things. One of the biggest differences at Bahri's office, for example, is that patients don't move from room to room or have to deal with multiple appointments ... " ...
Labels: dental, flow-techniques, lean, office, shingo-prize, success-story, value-stream-map
... "Lean Kaizen Workshop Boot Camp, a five-day, hands-on program with the majority of time spent at a manufacturing site; " ...
... "Kaizen is the process of continuous improvement using small, sustainable steps. The focus is on achieving small sustainable improvements by identifying & reducing sources of waste. " ...
Labels: bubblequest, continuous-improvement, eliminate-waste, kaizen, lean, software-products, sustain
... "Process improvement methodologies, such as lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, are fundamentally measurement-based strategies that seek to maximize productivity while eliminating variation. In fact, measurement is both the second and fifth step of the Six Sigma DMADV (define, measure, analyze, design and verify) process. " ...
Labels: dmadv, dmaic, eliminate-variation, ethanol-industry, lean, measurement-system, process-improvement, variation

... "He has 26 years experience in high technology aerospace and commercial manufacturing, including 17 years with United Technologies' Sikorsky Aircraft Division, where he played a pivotal role in Sikorsky's Lean transformation. Mr. Mele was also a partner with Accenture, where he consulted global high technology manufacturing firms in planning and execution of end-to-end business transformations. Mr. Mele holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut, an MS in Computer and Information Science from the University of New Haven and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development. " ...
Labels: gerber-scientific, leadership, lean, transformation
... "The new language is part of a Japanese-inspired, lean manufacturing philosophy that helps companies produce products with the least amount of labor, equipment, materials and power ... " ...

... "The Kaizen problem-solving system will also be applied to the turnaround time for lab tests, such as biopsy samples, which will help speed up diagnoses. Much of the work is likely to involve better use of IT systems ... " ...
Labels: business-process, healthcare, hospital, it-systems, kaizen, lean, medical-industry, problem-solving, process-improvement
... "But D'Addario's bigger plan to increase profitability lies in his Toyota-inspired lean manufacturing initiative. The company is putting 12 employees, who volunteered to become lean champions, through about 400 hours of training ... " ...
Labels: education, initiative, lean, lean-champion, manufacturing-operations, music, profitability, training

... "Sybron has adopted principles known as Danaher Business Systems, which he called a playbook to make the company run as a more efficient team. It's centered on kaizen, a quality improvement process that grew out of the teaching of W. Edwards Deming. " ...
Labels: danaher-business-system, deming, lean, operational-efficiency, playbook, sybron
... "The performance of these subsystems is a testament to our process-based management and to our lean manufacturing commitment, and GPS IIF fully meets the specifications set forth by our U.S. Air Force customer and places us firmly on track to deliver the satellite for the first launch in 2008. " ...
Labels: air-force, boeing, commitment, lean, satellite, techniques
... "The basic principles of Lean Manufacturing date back at least to the 18th century. In Poor Richard's Almanack, Benjamin Franklin wrote, He that idly loses 5s. " ...
Labels: ben-franklin, lean, warehousing, wireless
... "An information session about a coming Lean Certificate Workshop Series is scheduled for 8-9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Business Assistance Center, 2701 Larsen Road. " ...
Labels: certificate, education, lean, session, workshop
... "In fact, the ability to change the process and go from good part to good part as quickly as possible is a must. The faster the changeover, the less production time is lost. " ...
Labels: lean, production-system, quick-changeover, work-cells
... "We've become successful in eliminating waste through lean manufacturing processes, she says. We've implemented a lot of procedures to make it efficient or cost-efficient (to keep planes operational). " ...
Labels: boeing, city-san-antonio, efficiency, lean, procedures, waste
... "If you're going to consistently beat your competition to market on this newly expanded, worldwide playing field you've got to spread Lean throughout your entire value stream. " ...
Labels: infor-erp, lean, plant-floor, supply-chain, value-stream-map

... "When Lumedyne implemented the Lean Manufacturing process, its production increased from five units per week to 15 units in three days, Rhoden said. " ...
Labels: lean, lumedyne, manufacturing-operations, mindset, production-efficiency, state-florida, training
... "IBM, however, confirms that Lean is simply a Six Sigma business practices effort that has nothing to do with layoffs. Lean is a collection of Six Sigma business processes used by a number of leading companies to improve speed, quality and responsiveness to customers ... " ...
Labels: ibm, lean, lean-enterprise, organization, results, speed
... "According to the Institute, Menlo was selected because of its success in applying the principles of Lean manufacturing to the LSP sector. After reviewing a considerable amount of data, the Institute was convinced that Menlo had developed an operating model and a best practice that provided an excellent benchmark for other LSPs to emulate. Additionally, Menlo significantly improved its customers' efficiency, service and overall supply-chain performance.
The Lean concept uses a company's employees to discover ways to remove waste from processes by drawing on the expertise and knowledge of people who perform the work. Employees are given a framework within which to work, and problem-solving tools enabling them to analyse work processes, identify wasteful and unnecessary practices and develop plans to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Essentially, Lean manufacturing methodologies applied in the supply chain allow for the continuous removal of cost from warehousing and logistics operations leading to improved financial returns for both the customer and the logistics provider. " ...
Labels: benchmark, global-institute-logistics, lean, lean-concepts, logistics, menlo-worldwide, services, waste, waste-reduction
... "And it is the chance of a lifetime for a car company to reinvent itself, to out-Toyota Toyota in lean manufacturing and vehicle quality. " ...
Labels: chrysler, kaizen, lean, methodology, patience, quality-management, reinvent, toyota
... "Achieving the beginning stages of lean is fairly easy; it's taking it to the next level that requires hard work, dedication, and in many cases, the right equipment. " ...
Labels: dedication, equipment-operations, implementation, lean, next-level, stages

... "At AEP, when a new approach is being introduced, such as lean manufacturing, everyone in the facility has some level of training to have a company-wide knowledge base. " ...
Labels: alignment, approach, lean, lean-enterprise, organization, talent, training
... "EnterpriseTrack allows us to easily configure multiple strategic project portfolios, each tailored to meet our specific needs. EnterpriseTrack is being deployed globally within the company's Quality organizations initially. We were able to communicate our requirements to the Instantis services team, and they had us up and running relatively quickly, added Brignac. " ...

Labels: achieve, instantis, it-project, lean, ppm, project-management, project-portfolio-management, project-selection, quality-management, six-sigma
... " ... it seems fitting that The Machine That Changed the World, the seminal 1990 book on lean manufacturing as practiced by Toyota Motor Corp., is now being reissued. " ...
Labels: automotive-lean-manufacturing, chrysler, ford-lean-manufacturing, general-motors, lean, toyota
... "The program advocates lean manufacturing, whose main tenet is that the processes used to produce things can be made more efficient and therefore more profitable. " ...
Labels: course, lean, lean-concepts, lean-manufacturing, lean-principles, new-jersey
... "Meanwhile, lean manufacturing, globalization and supplier rationalization initiatives have dramatically increased companies' exposure to the risk of supplier instability, shrunk time-to-respond, and decreased visibility. " ...
Labels: kan-ban, kanban, lean, lean-manufacturing, lean-supply, lean-supply-chain, pull-systems, supply-chain

... "Thanks to the introduction of lean manufacturing and cell concepts, the company can make a pair in seven hours. Shoes are made to order, with the inventory of finished products kept very low. " ...
Labels: competitive, inventory-management, lean, lean-concepts, lean-manufacturing, manufacturing-cell, operational-efficiency, stollenwerk