Army Plant Lean Manufacturing Modernization

Setpoint Systems will modernize the Army's back-office manufacturing process for 7.62mm ammunition cases at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant. Setpoint will integrate lean manufacturing principles to achieve operational efficiency, increased output, and enhanced product quality. ...

... "The U.S. government and ATK (the private company who manages the plant) realized that the time had come to modernize this manufacturing process. Setpoint gave ATK the perfect modernization solution through lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is based on the Toyota Production System (TPS) methodology, which breaks manufacturing processes down into multiple, compact workcells rather than using the enormous manufacturing lines common in the 20th century. " ...

Via Setpoint Systems: Army Ammunition Plant

Chief Lean Officer Focuses on World-Class Efficiency

Intermet Corporation names Bob Flaherty into a newly created position of Chief Lean Officer to lead and mentor the company to world-class levels of efficiency. The new position reports the the CEO, Jeff Mihalic. ...

... "In his new role, Flaherty will work collaboratively with Intermet group presidents and the company's 10 plants to achieve world-class efficiencies while building upon the excellent lean foundation already in place throughout Intermet.

Previously, Flaherty spent nearly eight years at Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown, Ky., where he held various positions and responsibilities including start up preparation, training of associates on the Toyota Production System, various Production Engineering kaizen initiatives, and management of the stamping plant expansion. " ...

Via Intermet: Bob Flaherty Joins Intermet to Head Lean Initiatives

Toyota Production System in Healthcare

Learn about the application of lean principles and TPS in the healthcare industry. ...

... "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 " ...

Via : Summit on Deploying the Toyota Production System in Hospitals

German Lean Manufacturing MNPS

MAN Nutzfahrzeuge implements lean manufacturing techniques in pilots and commits to enterprise implementation of a common production system. ...

... "Closely modeled on the well-known Toyota Production System (TPS), the development of the MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Produktionssystem—christened, inevitably, MNPS—was intended to standardize the adoption of lean thinking right across MAN ... " ...

Via Manufacturing Business Technology: German industrial giant pioneers Toyota lean manufacturing

Toyota Production System Highlights

TPS reviewed in this vid. ...

TPS Toyota's Production System

Insights on TPS ...