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Pull Systems: An Essential Lean Element 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- June 20, 2011
The Association For Manufacturing Excellence (AME) is committed to enterprise excellence through shared learning and access to best practices. As a proud member and leader in the Northeast Region I had the opportunity to share a best practice last fall on pull systems. I have talked about this pull system before but AME recently published
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A Tribute to Eli Goldratt 0
- In the News
- June 13, 2011
This weekend a true pioneer in process and business improvement passed away. From the Goldratt-TOC website: It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Dr. Eli Goldratt the founder of TOC. Eli passed away on 11 June 2011. “I smile and start to count on my fingers: One, people are good. Two, every conflict
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A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet – Lean vs Operational Excellence 0
- In the News
- May 24, 2011
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet which means what matters is what something is, not what it is called. A recent article got me thinking about this and the waste of needing to go beyond Lean to “Operational Excellence”. Kevin Duggan, President of Duggan
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Lean Manufacturing Presentation from EASTEC 2011 0
- In the News
- May 18, 2011
Yesterday, while at EASTEC, The East Coast’s Largest Annual Manufacturing Event, I have a chance to listen to a number of great presentations on Lean topics. One of them was from Peter Lariviere, Lista International Corporation CEO, where he describes Lista’s Lean journey. This CEO seems to really understand Lean. He provides a great definition
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Toyota’s Ideas for Good Finalist Show Ingenuity 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- April 25, 2011
A couple of months ago I mentioned Toyota’s new challenge called Ideas for Good. The idea was to take Toyota’s technology to solve a problem to make our world a better place like this idea to help during natural disasters. They have picked the 25 finalist, 5 from each technology category, from all the
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Respect for People – Support Japan 0
- In the News
- March 16, 2011
Source of Photo : AP The last several days has been consumed with news from Japan after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and devastating tsunami. My company OFS is owned by FEC, a Japanese manufacturer, so I have been in touch with a number of colleagues since this disaster. We have been fortunate that no employees
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