Oklahoma partners for Six Sigma best practices

Oklahoma looks to develop its base of small to medium size businesses with strategies such as lean and Six Sigma. ...

... "Whether a company conducts improvement initiatives under Baldridge, Six Sigma, or Lean Manufacturing, quality represents a key yardstick that businesses and customers use to measure success. All of these programs aim to streamline, integrate, and improve operating processes. " ...

Via Oklahoma Department of Commerce: Business Workforce Development

McCoy Corp Lean Manufacturing Implementation

McCoy Corporation weathers the business cycle, implementing lean manufacturing as its competitive advantage in ts markets. ...

... "The Corporation's continued implementation of lean manufacturing processes was a major success factor in 2008 and will continue to be so in 2009 and beyond as this implementation is expected to continue to show positive results. The Corporation is committed to continuously improving efficiencies and moving closer to a goal of having its operations become centres of excellence for manufacturing and being the low cost provider while maintaining high quality standards. The Corporation has established a lean consortium group representative of all of McCoy's business segments. The Corporation believes its experience with lean implementations will be an advantage in any manufacturing businesses that McCoy may acquire. " ...

Via McCoy Corporation: Second Quarter 2009 Results

Lean Kaizen Techniques for Pharma

The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a transformation where Six Sigma, lean, and kaizen methods can be used to instill the discipline necessary to achieve operational efficiencies and accelerate new product development. This article discusses techniques for blending the methodologies in the improvement process, such as the project charter and selection steps. ...

... "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. " ...

Via Pharmaceutical Processing: Lean Kaizen

Roadmap for Lean Implementation

Insights on lean implementation process to prepare for and sustain the transformation. ...

Six Sigma Reward System Scales With Benefits

Fort Leavenworth responds to Six Sigma adoption barriers with a scalable reward system. ...

... "So, the Garrison's Lean Six Sigma Tiger Team formulated a reward system for civilian, military and contract employees. The reward corresponds with the success of the idea. " ...

Via Leavenworth Lamp: Incentives

Kaizen Events Worth Time Investment

In some companies, it takes awhile before successes prove that kaizen events are worth the investment of time. ...

... "effects of a properly planned and executed kaizen event will pay for the perceived lost time of the participants many times over. " ...

Via Reliable Plant: Kaizen events

Software Project Success With Six Sigma

Six Sigma process can be applied to software selections in order to enable project success. ...

... "A successful software selection project is no different. It involves identifying the known problems within an organization, collecting appropriate user facts or issues, and identifying the underlying root causes. In this case, the root cause would be the deficiencies within the current software package that are driving the organization's operational inefficiencies. " ...

Via Accounting Software: Software Selection using Six Sigma

Manufacturing Excellence: Pierce Recognized

Pierce, an Oshkosh subsidiary, is recognized with Wisconsin manufacturer of year award ...

... "In 2006, Pierce opened an $18 million, 130,000-square-foot production facility expansion. The expansion was spurred by strong growth in the fire, rescue and homeland security apparatus industry. The development provides Pierce with additional capacity to meet this growing demand, help enhance quality, reduce lead times for customers, and streamline manufacturing processes in line with the company's lean manufacturing initiative. It also positions the company for future growth opportunities. " ...

Oshkosh Truck Subsidiary, Pierce Manufacturing, Named Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year

Lean Manufacturing Accounting Principles Discussed in Webinar

In upcoming webinar, Infor will discuss how companies can ensure their accounting practices support their lean initiatives. The webinar is called: Cost Accounting & Financial Accounting Contradictions that Undermine Your Lean Manufacturing Success. The webinar will be held February 28, 2007 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT, hosted by Mike Frichol, CPIM, Vice President, Global Industry & Product Marketing, Infor. Registration. ...

... "Today's manufacturing landscape is riddled with demand fluctuations, pricing and compliance pressures, and ever-extending supply chains. In an effort to improve efficiency in their manufacturing facilities, many companies have implemented Lean processes to achieve significant production performance gains. However, there is a largely unrecognized need to introduce revised costing and management accounting methods that provide a more realistic financial view of performance within a Lean context. " ...

Via Infor: Infor Webinar Highlights Accounting Principles That Drive Lean Initiatives Throughout the Enterprise