Today, many companies have managed to get the balancing act of getting costs down and handling manufacturing inefficiencies right. This can mostly be attributed to the adoption of Six Sigma methodologies. However, the level of discipline that is now commonplace with regard to the cost of doing bu...
Continual Improvement Culture:Lean Six Sigma tools can be used to engage all employees at each level of the organization in efforts to identify and eliminate waste from processes. If environmental waste is included in these improvement efforts, Lean Six Sigma becomes one of the most powerful ways ...
“the place where value is created”. The Gemba Walk as a concept was created by Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System of lean manufacturing. Ohno wanted to encourage management executives to leave their offices and see where the real work happened. This, he hoped, would ...
more manageable tasks. In the APM methodology, each project is completed in small sections – often referred to as iterations. Each iteration is completed according to its project life cycle, beginning with the initial design and progressing to testing and then quality assurance. ...
they do not really know what it is all about. While it might seem surprising that there are still organizations that have not heard of the Six Sigma approach, it is quite believable indeed considering that the approach has been widely used in the manufacturing circles with less exposure out...
Aworkflow diagramis a type of flowchart that depicts the movement of tasks or actions from one person or group to another. When should you use one? Workflows were born in the manufacturing industry around the late 1880s when labor was going through a transformation. Scientific management professi...
Consider manufacturing. The industry was a leader in operational optimization, using Six Sigma and other methodologies to strip cost and waste out of processes. After years of these efforts, process improvements became agame of incheswith ever-smaller benefits. ...
The year is 1975. The global camera market is expanding at an unstoppable momentum, powered both by advancements in technology as well as manufacturing. The 35mm film SLR rules as both the most desirable camera design for consumers as well as the most versatile tool for professional photographers...
A one-point lesson is concise and focused teaching designed to improve an employee or team’s understanding of a specific task or skill. One point lessons are essential for quickly and effectively conveying important information. When designing a one-point lesson, you must keep three things in ...
JIT Purchasing – 3 Reasons why it is Different from Conventional Purchasing Lean Six Sigma Procurement Supplier Development JIT Purchasing different from Conventional Purchasing? Most of us have worked in both some sort of JIT purchasing (Just In Time purchasing) and conventional manufacturing business...