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IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance.  |
U.S. Banker August 2008 Larry Mead |
What Financial Services Can Learn From Lean The gains in the banking industry achieved through eliminating waste and improved customer service after adopting the Lean business philosophy are hard to ignore.  |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2008 John Teresko |
How to Organize for Lean/Six Sigma To enable the maximum potential of lean/Six Sigma efforts, focus on more than the factory floor.  |
Food Engineering December 1, 2005 Kevin T. Higgins |
Lean builds steam Assembly industries and the automotive world flocked to lean manufacturing in the last decade. Now, food and beverage processors are getting in step.  |
IndustryWeek August 17, 2011 |
Five Common Lean Maintenance Missteps How to avoid the five most common mistakes made by manufacturers on their journey to lean maintenance.  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz |
Lean Takes the Driver's Seat at Lear "Total lean behavior" has helped auto Lear Corp. stay competitive in a struggling market.  |
Food Processing March 2012 G. Keith Diepstra |
Leading for a Culture of Improvement The improvement culture in the food industry is weak, because leadership in the food industry has a weak understanding of improvement.  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Brad Kenney |
Continuous Improvement Gets a Green Makeover Don't get hung up on the enviro-hype. Reducing waste, emissions and pollution is simply good business.  |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Swarm the Floor Management gets a little closer to the lean action by swarming the floors.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz |
Just Say Jishuken Jishuken is a management-driven kaizen activity where management members identify areas in need of continuous improvement and spread information through the organization to stimulate kaizen activity. Here's how Toyota Motor does jishuken.  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement -- What's This Sustainability Stuff All About? Manufacturers are discovering there are many good business reasons for focusing on profit, people and the planet.  |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2008 Rick Pay |
Everybody's Jumping on the Lean Bandwagon, But Many Are Being Taken for a Ride Lean might not always produce the expected benefits and here's why.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2006 George Taninecz |
Siegel-Robert Automotive Farmington: IW Best Plants Profile 2006 Best Of Times In A Tough Industry: Technical expertise and lean are key to one auto supplier's success.  |
IndustryWeek February 15, 2012 Steve Minter |
The Benefits of Lean IT in Manufacturing Applying lean to IT can mean better performance, less stress and significant cost savings.  |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2009 Jill Jusko |
Greatbatch: IW Best Plants Profile 2008 Leading with Lean: At Greatbatch, continuous improvement never takes a back seat.  |
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010 |
Lean Confusion It has been embraced, ignored, misunderstood and even derided, but lean's proponents continue to exhort its value as a driver of operational excellence.  |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine.  |
IndustryWeek May 27, 2009 Josh Cable |
Lean Gurus For many manufacturers embarking on a path of continuous improvement, the lean journey begins with a call to a consultant.  |
Food Processing September 2011 Greg Flickinger |
How Snyder's-Lance Transformed its Plant Into High Performance Work System Snyder's-Lance developed a culture of continuous improvement at the Charlotte manufacturing site to deliver the numbers with near-zero capital investment. You can, too.  |
Food Processing October 2006 Harold Tessman |
Applying lean to sanitation A recent FSIS notice allows for extended time between cleanups; lean sanitation can get you there and safely save you 33 percent in costs.  |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz |
Lean Training: Back To School Schneider Electric gets results with outside lean training programs.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
General Cable de Latinoamerica S.A. de C.V.: IW Best Plants Profile 2006 Flexibility Equals Opportunity: General Cable de Latinoamerica finds winning combination in Six Sigma and Lean.  |
Food Processing September 2011 Dave Fusaro |
ConAgra Foods Offers Practical View of Sustainability ConAgra Foods' view on green or sustainable food manufacturing is an outgrowth of the company's philosophy on good corporate citizenship.  |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz |
Cost Isn't Everything Best use of lean is when newly available capacity is used to grow business.  |
IndustryWeek April 18, 2012 |
Can Lean and ERP Work Together? Searching for harmony between MRP's 'push' and lean's 'pull'  |
IndustryWeek June 20, 2012 |
Vermeer Corp.'s Mary Andringa: A Champion of Lean When it comes to keeping lean on track at Vermeer, CEO Mary Andringa is its Chief Enabling Officer. She wouldn't have it any other way.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2006 Doug Bartholomew |
Enterprise Software: Lean Gets a Software Assist They said it couldn't be done -- mix enterprise resource planning with lean, that is. But ERP technology can support lean initiatives if you're willing to ride out the cultural shift.  |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2009 David Blanchard |
UT Electronic Controls: IW Best Plants Profile 2008 Achieving Competitive Excellence: Continuous improvement is UTEC's 'ACE in the hole.'  |
IndustryWeek March 17, 2010 |
Consider This - Taking Lean Beyond the Shop Floor Fokker Aerotron has seen a variety of benefits from applying lean, but it's where it was applied that may surprise manufacturers focused on their production floor.  |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 |
Turning Software Into a Solution Information technology can't make your operation lean, but it can provide valuable support for the long journey ahead.  |
IndustryWeek May 20, 2010 |
Leaner, Safer and Smarter Atlas Machine & Supply utilizes lean to improve plant safety.  |
IndustryWeek January 19, 2011 |
How to Win the Energy Race Overcoming risks to the supply chain will be key to energy and green initiatives.  |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2002 David Drickhamer |
Where Lean Meets Six Sigma Bringing the two concepts together delivers faster results...  |
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Steve Minter |
Measuring the Success of Lean As manufacturers adopt lean principles the process inevitably involves developing metrics for measuring their progress. Selecting the best mileposts for the never-ending journey.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2005 John S. McClenahen |
General Cable Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Lean, Six Sigma and a remarkable work ethic make the real difference at the cable-maker's Saskatchewan plant.  |
IndustryWeek May 21, 2010 |
Manufacturers Can Be Both Earth-Friendly and Wallet-Friendly Achieving ROI from waste reduction efforts is still a major issue for corporate sustainability efforts.  |
IndustryWeek December 16, 2005 |
A Rewarding Journey Sustainable manufacturing is a journey. Each step makes life better for our business and for the communities we call home.  |
IndustryWeek February 23, 2010 |
Experts: Don't Blame Lean Manufacturing for Toyota's Problems Industry pundits say if anything company lost focus on lean values and didn't extend quality assurance to the engineering department.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2005 George Taninecz |
Thomas & Betts Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Even Better: New expectations, goals and classic lean practices lead the electrical outlet and conduit box maker to world-class performance.  |
IndustryWeek July 20, 2011 Adrienne Selko |
Pharmaceutical's Lean Prescription Facing increasing cost pressures, many pharmaceutical firms are finding a healthy dose of lean the perfect tonic.  |
IndustryWeek December 16, 2010 |
Sustainable from Start to Finish Anomatic strives to make the aluminum anodizing process a shining example of green manufacturing.  |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2009 Jonathan Katz |
Meeting of the Minds: Where Process and Discrete Manufacturing Converge When it comes to continuous improvement, discrete and process manufacturers may have more in common than they think. A close look at the two industries shows they have opportunities to learn from each other.  |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Accounting For Lean Tastes Manufacturers are showing growing support for lean accounting, which proponents say more accurately reflects activities of a lean organization.  |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2004 David Drickhamer |
Lean Manufacturing: The 3rd Generation It's time for the younger crop of U.S. manufacturing leaders to take lean to the next level. Is your company ready for TPS2?  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2005 John Teresko |
Solectron Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Operating In All Modes: In Columbia, South Carolina the electronics manufacturer competes via lean, Six Sigma to the delight -- and sometimes surprise -- of customers.  |
IndustryWeek August 20, 2009 |
Watlow Electric Finds Value in Lean Accounting Manufacturer of industrial electric heaters and components offers best practices for implementation.  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 David Blanchard |
Thought Leaders -- Lean On Me Lean guru Jim Womack believes the world - though not necessarily manufacturing -- is marching in a lean direction.  |
IndustryWeek February 16, 2011 |
Average Isn't Good Enough Simply stated, manufacturers that aren't continually improving are losing ground. VIBCO Vibrators has embraced the principles of lean to assure it remains in the game, not behind the pack.  |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Culture Counts 'When you embark on lean, you're not just trying to engage the hands of your employees. You want their hands, their hearts and their minds,' Mike Fitzgerald, director of lean and reliability services for Advanced Technology Services Inc. asserts.  |
IndustryWeek October 5, 2010 |
Small Manufacturers Need to be Agile, Not Lean Workplace organization, quick setup, work standardization, pull systems, error proofing are very much a part of agile manufacturing.  |