Category Archives: Lean for Manufacturing
How To Sustain Lean Results
Sustaining “Lean” results is a critical challenge for many organizations. Although Lean knowledge and tools are important to implementation and results, they are not sufficient to ensure sustainability. Many organizations, hungry for quick fixes, focus heavily on tools and achieve … Continue reading
Continuous Improvement Part 4: Methods and Tools—FAQ’s
For a continuous improvement project to be effective and sustainable, it requires a systems approach involving the entire organization. Management should guide the organization in four fundamental areas to ensure success: Purpose: maximizing customer value Process: continually improving speed and … Continue reading
Continuous Improvement Part 3: The Process of Problem Solving
For a Continuous Improvement program to be effective and sustainable, it requires a systems approach involving the entire organization. Management should guide the organization in four fundamental areas to ensure success: Purpose—Maximizing customer value; Process—Continually improving speed and defects for … Continue reading
Continuous Improvement Part 2: It Starts with the Customer
For Continuous Improvement to be effective and sustainable, it requires a systems approach involving the entire organization. Management should guide the organization in four fundamental areas to ensure success: 1. Purpose – maximizing customer value 2. Process – continually improving … Continue reading
Continuous Improvement Part 1: A Culture of Change and Results
I often wonder: Why does Continuous Improvement work in some organizations and not in others? I think the difference must be the organization’s culture and acceptance to change. Management is crucial in changing and maintaining culture. At its best management … Continue reading
AP story on manufacturing rebound features SIFCO Industries image
In a February 1 story carried by MSNBC.com, the Associated Press used a spectacular image of workers handling an immense piece of forged steel at Cleveland-based SIFCO Industries to illustrate the rebound in the country’s manufacturing sector. Check it out: … Continue reading
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