Dec 20 2011
Via Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
Thoughts about change agents from Lonnie Wilson: Change agents must be different enough to change the status quo but credible enough to connect and engage those in management and in the workforce who need to change.
Via www.industryweek.com
Dec 19 2011
Via Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
Quality Circles were a short-lived fad in the US in the early 1980s. But they still exist in Japan, and thrive in India, where SteelGuru reports that 988 teams and 6200 delegates just participated in their 25th national conference in Hyderabad, India.
Via www.steelguru.com
Dec 16 2011
Via Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
This article takes a critical look at the debate between lean manufacturing and MRP software advocates, and how to find middle ground.
Via blog.softwareadvice.com
Dec 15 2011
Via Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
Like warehouses, libraries are storage and retrieval systems, and have the same need to identify and locate physical objects. Almost all manufacturing companies and libraries use numbering systems that are “smart” in that they encode information in the IDs. While it may have been a good idea in 1876, when the libraries’ Dewey Decimal Classification was invented, it is obsolete in the age of databases. But the weight of tradition keeps it going.
Encoding information in part numbers is just as obsolete in Manufacturing, where it increases training costs, unnecessarily complicates information systems, encourages confusion between similar parts having similar IDs, and makes data analysis contingent on the ability to extract the encoded information out of the part numbers. But you hear almost no voices making these points in the manufacturing world.
This article is from 2007 — not exactly breaking news — but it is the most recent I could find about a public library district, in Maricopa County, AZ, that has gotten rid of the Dewey system, uses the books’ ISBNs for IDs, and organizes the library floors like bookstores do. The readers no longer need to learn to decode the book IDs, the categorization of the books is independent of their IDs and can be changed, and all the book data can be retrieved on line without needing the ID, including availability status in branches.
Via www.nytimes.com
Dec 13 2011
Via Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
Motorola Mobility is being taken over by Google, and the article is from October, 2011. It includes links to videos. In the first one, Ashton Kutcher tries to figure out Six Sigma. Based on how youthful he looks, it must at least 15 years old. The others are introductions to “Six Sigma,” that discuss nothing but the obsolete, 80-year-old tools of SPC: histograms, control charts, etc. The impresssion you get from the article is of Six Sigma as warmed up SPC sprinkled with a smidgeon of Lean. This is not the perception I had of the program.
Via www.supplychaindigital.com
Dec 20 2011
Trailer Audits of Incoming Shipments
Via Scoop.it – lean manufacturing
The trailer audit as a tool to detect problems with incoming shipments.
Via www.mfrtech.com
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings • 0 • Tags: Lean, Lean Logistics, Logistics