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• Finding the Green in Lean Six Sigma In traditional Lean thinking, what is waste? Running across the factory floor to get a tool? Yes. Waiting for someone down the line to finish up their part of the assembly? Definitely. Leaving the lights on in the warehouse? A definite yes! Environmental wastes—including wasted energy—can cost companies thousands of dollars a year. As fuel costs rise and awareness of climate change issue....Read more

  Contributor:  Chris Reed Tags: Lean | Lean Six Sigma | environmental wastes 12/15/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• Lean Services: Asia's Preeminent Deployment Leader Gives Global Insights on Lean Six Sigma for Services While Lean has been an effective process improvement method for the manufacturing industry, some service companies have only begun the journey of implementing this methodology to assist with achieving operational excellence. Debashis Sarkar, who currently leads the Organizational Excellence Group at ICICI Bank from its headquarters in Mumbai, India, knows firsthand the trials and tribulations of this proces....Read more

  Contributor:  Debashis Sarkar Tags: eight wastes | Debashis Sarkar | Lean for Service Organizations and Offices: A Holistic Approach for Achieving Operational Excellence 01/12/2009  5:25:00 PM EST

• 	Erasing Our Carbon Footprint with Green Manufacturing
  Tags: green manufacturing | Lean Six Sigma | Lean manufacturing

• Process Excellence Essentials for Every Successful Continuous Improvement Culture How can you encourage employees to learn, embrace and use Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC or other process excellence tools for control and planning? Every company might take a slightly different approach, but some fundamentals are necessary for a process to gain momentum. Using Process Excellence Methodology for Continuous Improvement Engagement begins with a senior-level management commitment to the c....Read more

  Contributor:  Mark Fendley Tags: Kaizen | Lean Six Sigma DMAIC | DMAIC 11/24/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• 8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing in a Services Context   Defining “Waste” As it Applies to Service Organizations Anything that does not add value to the customer is a waste. Waste only adds to time and cost. And the definition of “waste” in a service organization is quite similar to its Lean manufacturing definition. When you look at a process, this customer could be an external customer/end user (consumer....Read more

  Contributor:  Debashis Sarkar Tags: Lean manufacturing | eight wastes of Lean | Lean 04/06/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Practically Lean: DIY Guide to Lean for SMEs
  

  Book title: Practically Lean Author: Nigel Barnes Practically Lean is a new book giving small and medium enterprises a useful boost in being able to ride out the current economic storm. Many large organisations turn to top consultancies to give them a new perspective and to find innovative new ways to improve during these difficult times. However, this is not an option for many smaller busin....Read more
  

  
  Contributor:  Book Review
  Tags: Nigel Barnes | Practically Lean | lean management
  02/26/2013  12:00:00 AM EST

• Nike Strikes Gold with Lean Manufacturing The manufacturing operations at sportswear company Nike have been under frequent scrutiny for decades after allegations that it utilised sweatshops to manufacture its products in the 1970's. This negative publicity prompted a response from Nike to the allegations. In 1992 it established a code of conduct for suppliers, whilst in 1996 they helped create the Apparel Industry Partnership, which....Read more

  Contributor:  Adi Gaskell Tags: Adi Gaskell | Nike | retail 05/16/2012  12:00:00 AM EDT

• What is Takt Time? Takt time is the maximum amount of time in which a product needs to be produced in order to satisfy customer demand. The term comes from the German word “takt,” which means “pulse.” Set by customer demand, takt creates the pulse or rhythm across all processes in a business to ensure continuous flow and utilization of capacities (e.g., man and machine).  Why Do We Need Ta....Read more

  Contributor:  Pankaj Aggarwal Tags: takt time | Lean | Lean manufacturing 09/01/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Achieving the Ultimate Improvement Cycle through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints Maximize your profit through a new and innovative process improvement model—the Ultimate Improvement Cycle. In this Profit through Process podcast, Genna Weiss of Six Sigma IQ speaks with Bob Sproull, Lean Manager of Army Fleet Support and owner of Sproull Consulting, who discusses how he developed

  Contributor:   Genna Weiss Tags: Six Sigma | Theory of Constraints | Lean 04/15/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• 	Getting Practically Lean: Interview with author Nigel Barnes Many large organisations have well-established Lean programs that makes them more efficient and productive. However, for many small businesses something like Lean can seem either too complicated or too obscure to be relevant to the day to day challenges of running a business. However, author and Lean
  Contributor:   Diana Davis Tags: Nigel Barnes | SME | London 02/20/2013  12:00:00 AM EST

• Balanced on the Lean/Green Tight Wire: The Role of Lean and Six Sigma in Organizational Survivability and Environmental Sustainability As we struggle to keep a solid footing on the tight wire of global completion, gale-force winds of economic uncertainty pose a new risk to our balance. The skillful navigation of tomorrow’s fiscal minefield depends on our ability to master a new generation of “best practices.” Coming under scrutiny is our capacity to minimize process wastes and the prudent consumption of environmental reso....Read more

  Contributor:  Clyde Parker Tags: green sustainable | Lean principles | green scorecard 02/11/2009  5:30:00 PM EST

• Value-Driven Channel Strategy: Extending the Lean Approach
  

  By R. Eric Reidenbach and Reginald W. GoekePublished by ASQ Press in 2006Value at the point of production does not automatically translate into value at the point of consumption. Augmenting Lean thinking with a more robust and substantial customer value basis makes it even more powerful when applied to the organization’s value stream.  Value-Driven Channel Strategy: Extending the Lean Approach un....Read more
  

  
  Contributor:  Book Review
  Tags: lean | lean thinking | lean techniques
  01/21/2009  5:06:00 PM EST

• Challenges of Service Lean Implementation Lean implementation can be quite challenging in a service organization. While the principles and learnings from Lean manufacturing are also conceptually applicable to the service business, Lean implementation needs to be done quite differently in the service industry because of the context under which service processes operate. The relevant list of Lean principles is quite long, but I will encapsulate th....Read more

  Contributor:  Debashis Sarkar Tags: Debashis Sarkar | processes | service Lean 03/09/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• 	Deploying Lean/Six Sigma In Our Turbulent Economy
  Tags: performance measuement | balanced scorecard | cost reduction

• 	Leaning the Defense Energy Support Center's Culture to Increase Warfighter Readiness
  Tags: vsm | new performance assessment systems | lean six sigma

• Lean Six Sigma Speeds Testing for Hospital Emergency Rooms More and more healthcare organizations are adopting Lean Six Sigma methodologies to help cut costs and improve patient services. No where is this more true than in hospital laboratories. HCA’s Integrated Regional Laboratories (IRL) manages the clinical laboratory operations of its East Florida Division hospitals and has been applying Lean Six Sigma to improve its operations for more than four years....Read more

  Contributor:  Fred Patton and Janice Pini Tags: Six Sigma hospital | Lean hospital | Fred Patton 07/15/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

• What is Lean? This article provides an introductory level overview of Lean, which has experienced widespread use and success across both manufacturing and service sectors over many decades. Lean Defined Lean is a philosophical way of working which emphasizes the removal of waste within a process. Core to this philosophy involves the principle that expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creat....Read more

  Contributor:  James Gauci Tags: Lean principles | seven wastes of Lean | 7 wastes of Lean 06/08/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• A Call to Go Lean in Defense Manufacturing On August 26, 2010, Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ's sister portal, Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA), had author JP Lambiase write on how the "defense industry can better support the military by implementing lean manufacturing to improve on fit, function, safety and quality." In one example, Lambiase points to the Lean component, the bus bar, as having the....Read more

  Contributor:  Genna Weiss Tags: defense | Lean manufacturing | military logistics 08/31/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Lean and Six Sigma in Our Turbulent Economy Wave good-bye to the economy we’ve known. The complexity and global scope of the credit crisis has changed the world of business, and the huge federal restructuring isn’t going to bring us back for a while. Independent of this market mess, executives need to go to work every day and build better, stronger global organizations. These business issues and challenges are in supply chain....Read more

  Contributor:  Terence T. Burton Tags: The Future Focused Organization | John Moran | sales 12/22/2008  12:00:00 AM EST

• End-to-End Lean Management: A Guide to Complete Supply Chain Improvement
  

  By Robert J. Trent, Ph.D. Published August 2008 by J. Ross Publishing Most organizations today look for quick and easy solutions when searching for cost savings and performance improvements. And efforts to improve supply chain performance through forced price reductions from suppliers or outsourcing often lead to a new set of problems. Progressive organizations have begun to recognize the need ....Read more
  

  
  Contributor:  Book Review
  Tags: manufacturing industry | Lean | service industry
  10/14/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT

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