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Boost Continuous Improvement Efforts with the IIoT
History can teach us a great deal about improving plant operations. During the Industrial Revolution, processes were created to evaluate core performance indicators such as quality, worker safety,...
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How to Reduce Manufacturing Waste
Nowadays, everyone is environmentally conscious. Across the country, recycling programs have become quite popular. Manufacturing facilities often have the greatest recycling opportunities. Statistics...
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Benefits of Automation in Lean Manufacturing
Both manufacturing automation and lean manufacturing have the same goals: to satisfy customers at the lowest possible cost. To achieve these goals, both disciplines address removing low-value or...
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Using Lean Principles to Make Your Plant Cleaner and More Efficient
The application of lean principles is spreading to nearly every type of business and industry. There is literally no place, function or operation that could not benefit from lean enterprise. Research...
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Best Practices for Material Handling
Manufacturing and distribution companies must concentrate on keeping costs under control, since they operate in an industry with very slim margins. As a result, they often spend a great deal of time on...
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3 Lean Manufacturing Techniques You Need to Know
To make a manufacturing process more efficient, a company must understand what lean is. To “go lean” means your workplace applies lean manufacturing philosophy and practices. Lean is an industrial...
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The value of Lean Six Sigma, and how to prove it
This report provides information to help you convince your managers and co-workers about the value of Lean Six Sigma.
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Beer Kaizen: A toast to continuous improvement
You've seen Toast Kaizen and continuous improvement videos, but this is newest and best training video ... or at least ... it'll make the lean/industrial engineering/kaizen junkies laugh a little.
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Xerox's Porter talks lean at the RELIABLE PLANT 2010 conference
Xerox's Aqua Porter, vice president of Lean Six Sigma strategy at Xerox, reflects on her RELIABLE PLANT 2010 Lean Manufacturing keynote address and reveals the extent of social media in business.
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Intel applies lean methods outside of the plant
Intel's Site Materials group in New Mexico applied lean manufacturing principles to Albuquerque's Road-Runner Food Bank, dramatically improving the time it takes to pack food boxes.
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Baldrige program name change emphasizes performance excellence
After 23 years as the "Baldrige National Quality Program," the nation's public-private partnership dedicated to performance excellence has decided to highlight that mission with a new name – the...
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Developing a lean culture – an elements checklist
What is organizational culture? Culture is a set of rules and standards shared by members of an organization, which – when acted upon by the members – produce behavior that falls within a range that...
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N. Carolina rug manufacturer weaves continuous innovation
Capel Rugs Inc., a company built on innovation, understands the need for a quality, consistent product. The company enlisted the help of North Carolina State University’s Industrial Extension Service...
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Why you need to create a standard process for spare parts
What do you see in this picture? Besides a lack of any real 5-S, what thoughts come to your kaizen mind about the motors? Perhaps you may think about what are the motors used for? Do we really need...
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TPM and operator asset ownership: This is my equipment!
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) combines the traditionally American practice of preventive maintenance with total quality control and total employee involvement to create a culture where operators...
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Mark Graban comments on Toyota, other lean topics
Host Mark Graban talks about a recent visit to Toyota as well as various other lean manufacturing topics during his weekly video blog.
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An introduction to standard work in manufacturing
This video provides knowledge and tools to apply standard work in a manufacturing setting. Standard work is essential to implementation of lean on many levels. Tools provided and practiced include:...
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An open and honest culture at Thedacare, a lean story
Dr. John Toussaint, author of the book "On the Mend", discusses lean in the healthcare industry.
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Value stream mapping in the office
Lean expert Cynthia Marsh-Croll of Croll Productive Synergy teaches how to use value stream mapping in an office environment to uncover waste and cut costs.
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Experts discuss activity mapping and product/process maps
Andy Carlino and Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Learning Center discuss activity mapping and product/process maps and their use in business process improvement.
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