Sep 19 2012
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The answer may determine the success of your lean implementation. If it is ‘yes,’ what are you prepared to do?
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Sep 18 2012
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Benson Group, one of the UK’s leading privately owned printed folding carton manufacturers, is delighted to detail that its Benson Box operation has been announced as the winner of the 2012 BPIF Excellence Award in the Lean Manufacturing category.
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Sep 12 2012
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KARACHI: The auto industry, especially Indus Motor Company (IMC), has done a commendable job to improve its business processes through Kaizen initiatives and activities and this practice should spread to other industries paving the way for accelerated economic development of our country.This was stated by Parliamentary Secretary for Industries MNA Pir Haider Ali Shah at the 19th Annual Kaizen Convention recently organised by Indus Motor Company (IMC) at a local hotel.
He said that growth and excellence lies in the adoption of Quality Control Circle (QCC) approach and Kaizen, which have enabled IMC to improve its development processes taking it to new heights.
See on www.dailytimes.com.pk
Sep 11 2012
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When faced with financial pressures, hospital leaders often try to reduce costs by laying off hospital employees. This is, in a way, understandable, since payroll makes up 60 to 70 percent of a typical hospital’s overall costs.
An increasing number of hospitals, however, are questioning the long-term impact of layoffs on morale, cost and quality. As a result, many are turning to “Lean management” practices, based on the Toyota Production System, as an alternative. The Lean methodology reduces costs, with lower costs being the end result of higher staff engagement and better patient care. Denver Health is one such health system with a “no-layoffs philosophy,” having saved over $150 million through their Lean program. Without those savings, Denver Health would “absolutely have had to cut jobs,” said CEO Patricia Gabow, MD, in a Denver Post report.
See on www.beckershospitalreview.com
Sep 8 2012
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A look at Inslee’s ‘lean management’ claimThe Seattle TimesA look at Inslee’s ‘lean management’ claim | Truth Needle.
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Sep 23 2012
Article presenting team-building games as “best practice” | AME
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In his 1951 novel Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut describes team building games that were eerily similar to the ones in this article. This approach has therefore been around US corporations for at least 60 years. But does it work?
We know that simulation games are effective as a Lean training tool, for example, but they are direct metaphors for the production work the participants do. The idea that generic games, unrelated to work, would be effective at developing teamwork is anything but obvious.
A promoter of this approach is quoted in the article as citing “research from MIT,” which I couldn’t find on Google. Experimental proof would require two groups of similar teams engaged in similar projects, with one group using these exercises and the other not. Then it would compare their performance on work projects.
We are also supposed to show respect for people. How respectful is it to an employee’s expertise to put him or her through this kind of experience? With the same time and money, you could send a machinist to a seminar on new cutting tools, with the duty to report on learnings to colleagues, or you could send a warehouse manager to learn about, say, RFID.
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings • 14 • Tags: Lean, Supply Chain Management, Team building