Jun 8 2012
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Kitchener manufacturing expert wins Queen’s medalWaterloo RecordKITCHENER — David Hogg, a longtime local management consultant, has won a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work in promoting lean manufacturing consortiums.
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Jun 5 2012
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From Pascal Dennis, brief and to the point, as usual.
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Jun 3 2012
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A series of training workshops addressed to “professionals […] in public service, manufacturing, utilities, and project management” culminates in a final event themed “Stupidity, a major obstacle to lean.”
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Jun 1 2012
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More about TPS in health care in Canada, this time about SMED applied to operating room turnarounds. This is not the first time manufacturing techniques cross over to surgery: 100 years ago, through motion studies in operating rooms, industrial engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth developed the method by which nurses make tools immediately available to surgeons.
“Surgeons are using Toyota management techniques to cut time between surgeries and halve overtime hours…”
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May 30 2012
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On the face of it, lean manufacturing, which is used by Toyota and other major global companies, doesn’t seem to fit very well into the world of…
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Jun 9 2012
Turnaround is accelerating at Chrysler plants in Kokomo, Indiana – Indianapolis Star
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