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Navy Six Sigma Results

Feds Train to Achieve Six Sigma Results [the broken link was removed] by Sara Michael, Federal Computer Week: For Navsea, responsible for maintaining naval ships and weapons, the Six Sigma-inspired approach encourages managers to closely examine a business operation, such … Continue reading

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Air Products Strips Out Inefficiencies

Air Products Strips Out Inefficiencies [the broken link was removed] by Rick Whiting, Information Week: Air Products standardized on continuous-improvement methodologies based on Six Sigma and lean manufacturing five years ago to boost its operating return on net assets, a … Continue reading

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Supplier Partnering

Supplier Partnering: It’s better, it’s longer and it’s not what you think [the broken link was removed], Rey Elbo (Philippines): This is to teach suppliers who could only continue supplying based on their long-term commitment and involvement to the implementation … Continue reading

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Business Improvement with Six Sigma

Business Improvement with Six Sigma [the broken link was removed] by Dr Anirban Basu (Express Computer, India IT weekly): The organisation, a CMMI-level 5 company found that although the SLA (Service Level Agreement) with its US client specified that the … Continue reading

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Spreading the Lean Gospel

Spreading the Lean Gospel [the broken link was removed] by Rebecca Reid: Bested said lean manufacturing at the Air Fuel Modules Division was a two-fold philosophy. The first aspect was to resolve current manufacturing inefficiencies and to implement lean principles … Continue reading

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Everybody Wants It, Toyota’s Got It

Everybody Wants It, Toyota’s Got It [oops, pointy haired boss broke link, so I removed it] by Grant Robertson, Globe and Mail (Canada): Despite riding atop the North American auto sector for the past decade, the company’s manufacturing methods are … Continue reading

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Solectron IndustryWeek Best Plant

Solectron Corp: IW Best Plants [the broken link was removed] by John Teresko To empower its employee strategy, Columbia (and the rest of Solectron) is dedicated to an ongoing journey of Six Sigma and lean manufacturing, says Petta. For example, … Continue reading

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Edson Puts The Squeeze On Waste

Edson Puts The Squeeze On Waste [the broken link was removed] by Ron Richardson “One of our wrong, old core beliefs was that inventory is good,” says Hattin. “We thought it provided rapid availability to parts and allowed us to … Continue reading

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Using Lean and Six Sigma in Project Management

Using Lean and Six Sigma in Project Management by Derrell S. James, Quality Digest: Our subject company used tools such as 5S to establish consistent workforce organization and improve productivity per square foot of space. They used standard work to … Continue reading

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Keeping High Tech Jobs

Keeping High-Tech Valley Jobs [the broken link was removed] by Ed Taylor, East Valley Tribune (Arizona) via Lean Manufacturing Blog: The company was able to make the move in part be cause of new lean manufacturing techniques adopted in Phoenix … Continue reading

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