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National Events - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Agile People; Lean Business How To Manage The People Asset To Deliver A Lean And Agile Business. Date: Wednesday, 12th March 2003 Venue: The Village Hotel, Coventry MORE INFO: National Events Agile People; Lean Business How To Manage The People Asset To Deliver A Lean And Agi... read article... |
Lean & Mean: A Cultural Issue - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article addresses the key issues that relate to implementing organisational change and in particular ‘Lean manufacturing’.The author uses ‘Lean’ and variants of ‘continuous improvement’ as examples to illustrate the inability for most org... read article... |
Your lean toolbox - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The 5 S concept has been associated with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and workplace management in manufacturing for some time... MORE INFO: Your lean toolbox The 5 S concept has been associated with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and workplace management in manufact... read article... |
Shrinking the supply chain uncertainty circle - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Any business operating within a product delivery supply chain is faced with an Uncertainty Circle. This is a major problem area and has four segments associated with it: the supply side, the manufacturing process, the control systems and the demand side. Whereas uncertainty caus... read article... |
Your lean toolbox: service recovery, customer retention and the three Rs - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Two significant pieces of research are highlighted in this section, which when combined, have great significance for customer retention in service and manufacturing business... MORE INFO: Your lean toolbox: service recovery, customer retention and the three Rs Two significant... read article... |
Kanban: the old and the new - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Provides an overview of Kanban, the classic signalling device for production pull systems. Kanban has been around for many years and is well established in a large number of companies. It is the classic signalling device for production pull systems. Nevertheless there remain unc... read article... |
On your marks, get set and go for a leaner operation - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: An overview of the lean operation concept and guidance on how businesses can achieve leaner operations MORE INFO: On your marks, get set and go for a leaner operation An overview of the lean operation concept and guidance on how businesses can achieve leaner operations PUBL... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: John Darlington shows how Lean Operations have been applied at AlliedSignal, a major supplier of re-manufactured and non-current production products to the automotive industry. Scheduling and planning systems were enhanced to enable better synchronisation, reduction in floor spa... read article... |
Cost Analysis for World Class Change: Part 3: Financial Models in Context - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article reviews the models presented in parts 1 and 2 and contextualises their application... MORE INFO: Cost Analysis for World Class Change: Part 3: Financial Models in Context This article reviews the models presented in parts 1 and 2 and contextualises their applicat... read article... |
Lean Thinking Delights Customers - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In the article ‘Managing Uncertainty – Tools or Technique 'in the June edition of Control I described some principles of organisational design that underpin lean companies. MORE INFO: Lean Thinking Delights Customers In the article ‘Managing Uncertainty – Tools or Technique '... read article... |
SMEs Accelerate in Lean Manufacturing - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Funding to help small and medium sized manufacturing companies leap forward into lean manufacturing is available through The Manufacturing Institute's Accelerated Route to Lean Manufacturing. MORE INFO: SMEs Accelerate in Lean Manufacturing Funding to help small and medium si... read article... |
Engineer Your Supply Chain To Cope With Demand Uncertainties - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The current debate between ‘lean and agile' has highlighted the need to engineer supply chains to best cope with demand uncertainties. MORE INFO: Engineer Your Supply Chain To Cope With Demand Uncertainties The current debate between ‘lean and agile' has highlighted the need ... read article... |
Survey of Automotive Component Suppliers in Wales - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Is it true that organisations take an unplanned and unstructured approach to the introduction of improvement initiatives? Is it a case of ‘let's look for the latest initiative which will save us' approach rather than thinking through the organisational needs and objectives which... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Quick Response Manufacturing is a technique developed in the USA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where as a result of successfully working with numerous organisations, the Centre for Quick Response Manufacturing has been established at the campus. MORE INFO: QRM: An En... read article... |
The Lean/Agile Special Interest Group - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The very successful seminar entitled MORE INFO: The Lean/Agile Special Interest Group The very successful seminar entitled Lean vs Agile, held on 24th April has continued to generate much interest and lively discussion. The concept and practices of Lean Thinking have been p... read article... |
Application of Lean Techniques in a Discrete Manufacturing Environment - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article describes how Lean manufacturing techniques were applied to a mature product, in a mature industry; it follows a previous article MORE INFO: Application of Lean Techniques in a Discrete Manufacturing Environment This article describes how Lean manufacturing tech... read article... |
Stock control in a Pub! - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The visit to the Man & Scythe at Bolton, late January was no ordinary meeting, nor an excuse for improving the stock turn on John's product. With a current stock averaging 1.6 weeks, this is a well-managed business from the sales and marketing aspects to inventory management. ... read article... |
National Events - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Agile People; Lean Business: How to manage the people asset to deliver a lean and agile business. Date: Wednesday, 12th March 2003. Venue: The Village Hotel, Coventry MORE INFO: National Events Agile People; Lean Business: How to manage the people asset to deliver a lean and ... read article... |
Lean, Agile - and Simple - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Whilst the attention in recent times has moved away from the old battleground of MRP vs JIT to the new conflict between Lean and Agile we remain in danger of perpetuating one of the greatest failings of our profession. We are also continuing to give insufficient credence to one ... read article... |
Getting Lean is not for Lightweights - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Intended as an encouragement to all companies to get Lean; this article briefly describes the benefits to be gained, the features of lean companies, the process of getting lean and the demands your company faces in order to get there. MORE INFO: Getting Lean is not for Lightwe... read article... |
Editorial: Leaning into the Future - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: As Editor I have to tell you that we have received more articles and information than we had pages for this issue. Great news! However, this meant cutting back on some content, so watch out for the next edition which will have my latest letter and lots more interesting stuff! ... read article... |
Branch news: Retail Special Interest Group/ Thames Valley - Lean operations Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Applying Lean Principles to Reduce Supply Chain Costs in the ‘Last 50 Metres’ MORE INFO: Branch news: Retail Special Interest Group/ Thames Valley Applying Lean Principles to Reduce Supply Chain Costs in the ‘Last 50 Metres’ On Thursday 14th October, ... read article... |
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