Sep 4 2012
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This article is about the implementation of Lean in the Indian apparel industry, but its featured picture hardly shows a Lean layout: operators seated at work stations with materials on conveyors.
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Aug 31 2012
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Lean principles are saving Saskatchewan healthcare millions of dollarsNews Talk 980 CJMEThe government of Saskatchewan is boasting savings of some $60 million in the healthcare industry thanks to what they’re calling Lean concepts.
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Aug 30 2012
This blog crossed the 40,000 cumulative views mark yesterday, after 9 months of existence.
It reminds me of Stephen Colbert’s enthusiastic announcement that Romney’s horse Rafalca scored 73 points in the Olympics.
His next sentence was: “Is that good?”
I am in the same predicament.
Aug 24 2012
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The notion that production work should be done standing has been controversial in Lean implementations, and resisted in particular by experts in ergonomics. Now several health researchers are saying that sitting is about as healthy for humans as smoking.
This article is about Anup Kanodia, from Ohio State’s Center for Personalized Health Care, and his recommendation to reorganize offices for stand-up work. See also NASA’s Joan Vernikos’s Sitting Kills Moving Heals.
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Aug 22 2012
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Auto World NewsToyota Manufacturing Celebrates 40 Years in the US at Long BeachAuto World NewsAnd over these 40 years, we have proven ourselves as a world-class manufacturer with an outstanding workforce that’s dedicated to safety and quality.” TABC…
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Sep 6 2012
Journalist Confuses Activity and Growth
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In yet another examples of journalistic innumeracy, this article confuses a quantity, manufacturing activity, with its variation, growth.
The title “Manufacturing growth is down for third straight month,” leads you to believe it says that growth is lower but activity is still growing.
The first sentence confirms this: “Manufacturing growth in August remained as it had been in the previous two months—sluggish.” Sluggish does not mean negative.
But the next paragraph tells you that manufacturing activity had actually been contracting, not growing: “ISM’s index used to measure manufacturing activity, was 49.6 in August, which is 0.2 percentage points below July and 0.1 percent lower than June. A reading of 50 or higher indicates growth is occurring.”
See on www.logisticsmgmt.com
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