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Lean Manufacturing (Part 2)
2008-10-27 13:00:00 Lean principles can be applied to other types of industry -, not just manufacturing. Health care, software programming, accounting services, education and even government agencies can benefit from implementing Lean principles. Lean Healthcare While returning from a
Lean Manufacturing (Part 1)
2008-10-14 17:24:00 Is Lean Manufacturing the answer to America's manufacturing woes? And can difficult economic times help turn the tide? With higher fuel costs resulting in higher transportation costs, the appeal of moving manufacturing operations overseas has lessened. By applying Lean principles, American manufa
The super-quick guide to Lean Manufacturing
2008-04-06 08:09:00 photo credit: DavidDennis The Lean philosophy was developed by Toyota in the 1950s and 1960s to improve the efficiency of car production. It was used to ensure the 10,000 components of a car were ready at the right time of the production line to allow the fastest possible production of motor vehicles. Lean encourages ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The super-quick guide to Lean Manufacturing", url: "http://learnsigma.com/the-supe-r-quick-guide-to-lean-manufactu-ring/" });
Excellence In Lean Manufacturing Brought By Chrysler LLC
2008-02-13 01:20:00 The new face of Chrysler has brought a lot of difference in the group’s recent success in the business. Chrysler LCC has just won the Shingo Award for Excellence in Lean Manufacturing! The Auto Channel reported that the facility for Chrysler products which manufactures fuel-efficient engines and clean water pumps, the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance (GEMA) facility in Dundee, Michigan has been given the 2007-2008 Shingo Silver Medallion for operational distinction."We congratulate this year's recipients in expanding their lean focus to all their business processes," says the Shingo committee in announcing the honors. "This year's recipients have demonstrated various best practices in world- class processes and have achieved outstanding results delivering high quality, competitive cost and high customer satisfaction."Furthermore, for twenty years now, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence distinguishes industry excellence in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The id...
Six Sigma Utilizing Lean Manufacturing Principles
2008-01-28 20:01:00 Six sigma is now the most common continuous improvement tool in business. It is often combined with lean manufacturing to form the lean six sigma improvement method. More: continued here If you like this post, buy an ad and drive visitors to your site.
Toyotas Innovative Biomobile
2007-10-14 09:01:00 Are lean (TPS) and innovation incompatible - of course not (more articles here)! Autounleashed presents the 2057 Toyota BioMobile Mecha Concept: ?It is year 2057 and due to limited ground space, vertical architectures have caused the transportation industry to create new pathways that also explore vertical space. An innovative solution is discovered in biomimicry. Inspired by life found in nature, the vehicle is powered by pollution with dynamic driving instincts and structural adaptations to accommodate the user?s need for space. This vehicle?s unique capability to extract pollutants in the air and utilize it as an energy space source restores balance to our atmosphere. It is able to autonomously adapt its driving environment by utilizing its four nano-laser wheels. Nanotechnology also enables the structure of the vehicle to expand and contract horizontally and vertically to serve as a compact commuter, an aerodynamic performance vehicle and temporary dwelling? Discuss this post ...
Lean Games
2007-10-03 23:36:00 There are a number of games which can be played in a classroom to simulate or teach lean principles: The Nickel Game and the Dollar Game are useful in demonstrating some of the principles of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) — also useful for some related Lean principles … Here here are videos (in “RealPlayer” format) that describe the Games: Nickel Game Dollar Game The Dice Game can be useful in explaining variability as well as several other Lean Six Sigma concepts, such as Kanban and the Theory of Constraints (TOC). There is also a short video (in “RealPlayer format) showing how to do the Dice Game, at this link The Bean Game can be completed in as little as an hour, and is useful for demonstrating some of the concepts of the Theory of Constraints. Any more games to share? Discuss this post in the forum Be sure to subscribe for more great articles! Subscribe in a reader Share This
Lean means layoffs
2007-10-02 21:09:00 When is lean not lean? When you use it to sack 150 000 IBM workers. ?LEAN is about offshoring and outsourcing at a rate never seen before at IBM.” This is clearly an idiotic article written by someone who has no understanding what lean is all about. ?Layoffs don?t happen because ?excess? employees have been created when management got smarter about how they do business…. lean is not an immediate event but a long-term process, and that attrition is always at play. If there is a balanced approach to employee development and business management, there is no reason for layoffs…” In fact, Toyotas culture of problem solving, reducing waste and when coupled with six sigma has been so successful that its being applied outside of manufacturing in attempt to prevent 100,000 people dieing every year due to medical error Time to round-up the journalists and educate them I think. Oh, and you may also want to throw in a few politicians for goodluck as well. Discuss this po...
How beer helps with lean
2007-09-21 18:26:00 From the ASQ forums: Are you familiar with the “Beer Game” simulation? It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1960s, so it pre-dates Lean (though, obviously, it does not pre-date beer!). Even so, it can be used to demonstrate several lean-related concepts. It is used to demonstrate the advantages of taking ...
Quality job round-up
2007-09-11 05:10:00 This is a regular post where I collect the best job links around. Here I collect some recent quality related jobs from across the main job websites and present them to you, in one handy bite size piece for your reading pleasure. And remember: “The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.” - Robert Frost Enjoy! Click for “lean sigma jobs”. Powered by RSS Feed Digest Subscribe in a reader Share This
Six-sigma / lean project failures - why?
2007-08-30 07:56:00 There are many reasons why six-sigma or lean projects fail. I invite you to take the poll below and share your experiences why by leaving a comment. View MicroPoll Web Survey Free Web Polls Share This
Kansei Engineering: affection + emotion into design
2007-08-21 01:24:00 Kansei is a Japanese term where the syllable kan means sensitivity and sei means sensibility, together it addresses the psychological feeling or image of a product. It is used to express the quality of an object for producing pleasure through its use taking into account subjective issues (emotion, affect, perceptions, sensations…) in user experience. ...
What?s San-Gen Shugi?
2007-08-19 09:34:00 This article in the Harvard Business Review looks at how staff are trained in the Toyota Production System (TPS) to make improvements in the production process. The article picks out some of the key differences between TPS and the way most American and European enterprises tackle productivity improvement. I’ll focus on two points: There is no ...
Can Lean and ISO 9001 be integrated?
2007-08-12 19:42:00 In a word: yes. However, you must take care; from Wikipedia: “ISO 9000 guidelines provide a comprehensive model for quality management systems that can make any company competitive.” “A survey by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance indicated ISO 9000 increased net profit… Another Deloitte-Touche survey reported that the costs of registration were recovered in three years.” “Good business ...
Lean six sigma under attack
2007-08-11 15:14:00 Ouch! I’ve written about lean six sigma before and suggested that these two methods can be merged. However, over on the gembapantarei blog others disagree quite strongly: So Lean Six Sigma is technically not Lean at all, but a form of Six Sigma that has less fat in it than regular Six Sigma.Just like “diet soda” ...
The no-nonsense guide to standardized work
2007-08-10 07:06:00 Standardized Work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that establish the best method and sequences for each process. It defines the interaction of people using processes to produce a product. It is centered around human movements, it outlines efficient, safe work methods and helps eliminate muda/waste. Standardized Work in processing and assembly, maintains ...
Could Toyota save the NHS?
2007-08-08 08:46:00 Two recipes for fixing the NHS have been on offer in the media recently. Sir Gerry Robinson’s attempt to galvanise Rotherham General Hospital was rather like a reality TV show, and his idea that one brilliant manager can get the service into shape is dangerous and deluded. Far more encouraging was Peter Day’s In Business ...
Detroit dinosaurs drag their heels over gas-guzzlers
2007-08-06 08:14:00 There’s one thing you can always count on with America’s car industry, if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster. In the Twenties, the president of General Motors insisted his company couldn’t possibly afford to make windscreens with safety glass. In the Fifties, auto executives warned Congress that making ...
Best of the best
2007-08-05 11:13:00 There’s some great blogs out there on lean, six-sigma, quality and business improvement in general. For example: Fashion-Incubator Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Gemba Panta Rei Evolving Excellence … to name but a few: check out my blogroll for some more examples! However, what would a list of the best posts these blogs have to offer ...
Lean Link Carnival
2007-07-26 12:11:00 This is a regular post where I collect the best lean manufacturing links around. Here I collect the top 10 breaking lean manufacturing news stories and best blog posts from across the interweb and present them here, to you, in one handy bite size piece for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! Click for “Lean”. Powered ...
Me Against the World
2007-07-24 12:31:00 Blah, blah, blah. I never shut-up. Always commenting on other peoples blog posts. I just don’t know when to stop. The danger is though, that you would potentially miss-out on all of the great things I have to say ? and I believe that everyone is entitled to my opinion. So, I regularly present a brief ...
The use of Lean manufacturing at Zetex Semiconductors UK.
2007-07-23 09:19:00 It is good to read about a company who is doing well in the UK, in a very competitive market, interesting read, I met with Zetex's Operations Guru about three years ago, interesting company, with a strong management team......Zetex Semiconductors, Diet of lean and chipsManufacturing in Action, Source : The ManufacturerZone In an industry increasingly dominated by Far East manufacturing, Zetex Semiconductors is holding its own ? and making impressive strides on its lean journey, as Mick Conlon told Bernie SheehanIn November Zetex Semiconductors became a certified partner of Osram?s ?LED light for you? network, designed to provide a worldwide source of technical expertise in LED lighting. Osram ? one of the world?s leading lighting manufacturers ? holds a number of key patents in this area and the certification will give Zetex early access to the very latest LED-based lighting projects and technologies ? and help it to shape future solutions.Zetex offers a growing range of IC (integr...
The super-quick guide to Lean Manufacturing
2007-07-21 16:22:00 The Lean philosophy was developed by Toyota in the 1950s and 1960s to improve the efficiency of car production. It was used to ensure the 10,000 components of a car were ready at the right time of the production line to allow the fastest possible production of motor vehicles. Lean encourages managers to look at how customers and goods flow through their systems to unlock bottlenecks and inefficiencies. In doing so it defines value-adding activity solely as those which affect the customer and estimates 90% of all actions within organisations are wasted because they add no value. The principles have been adopted by organisations as diverse as Tesco and the NHS. Lean manufacturing refers to the systematic identification and elimination of waste (muda) from a process while increasing responsiveness to change. While there are a number of specific tools that organizations use to implement lean production systems, the six core methods listed below are most typically used. Most of these lea...
Muda is evil and must die
2007-07-11 08:15:00 Muda is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. Its elimination is what lean manufacturing is all about and it is one of the most effective ways to increase the profitability of any business. Look at each step in each process: ...
The Ultimate Short Guide to Value Stream Mapping
2007-07-09 08:11:00 A value stream map is a simple diagram of every step involved in the material and information flows needed to bring a product from order to delivery. The first step is to draw a visual representation of every step in a process, including key data, such as the customer demand rate, quality, and machine reliability. ...
Integration of A3 into the DMAIC framework
2007-07-03 08:00:00 Although it?s easy to focus on other things at certain times of the year, for example, it appears that even Santa uses Six Sigma to help him meet his toy related delivery objectives, despite what the naysayers may have you believe. So last week, my mind wandered to the use of A3. A3 - ...
"Great " Lean Manufacturing Blog
2007-04-06 10:49:00 This is a brief post to alert readers of this blog to my Lean Manufacturing blog: www.63buckets.co.uk It covers all aspects of Lean Manufacturing and is slowly getting ever more popular. Please pay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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