Base Shares Six Sigma Management Practices

Marine base, MCLB-Albany, shares its management competencies with military partners. ...

... "At Maintenance Center Albany, he said as an example, best practices include lean manufacturing, theory of constraint and Six Sigma, a quality improvement methodology. It's an opportunity in many different ways ... to show off the base and many of the great things that we are doing, said Col. Christian N. Haliday, commanding officer of MCLB-Albany. " ...

Via Albany Herald: Georgia bases

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

Demand Flow Technology

GE exec recognized for his leadership ...

... "One of Noonan's lasting legacies was his focus on Lean Manufacturing, known in the 1990s as Demand Flow Technology. He was particularly adept at championing the implementation of state-of-the-art technology that drove continuous improvements. " ...

Via Eagle Tribune: Business briefs

3M Six Sigma Culture: Risk Averse ?

3M adds manufacturing capacity to drive growth. Six Sigma focus may have clouded its judgement with regards to investing for growth. ...

... "In the past, a 3M culture that viewed new investment with circumspection and an over-reliance on the Six Sigma management technique made it shy of building some needed capacity, Buckley said. " ....

Via MarketWatch: 3M