Process Improvement Case Studies

In 2009, Unison Industries, a worldwide provider of electrical and mechanical aviation components and systems, had a problem common to many manufacturers: an excess amount of inventory. Contributor Melissa Connolly describes how Six Sigma helped to get the excess inventory under control. Full Article »

For the last few decades US and European manufacturers have taken advantage of cheap labour costs in emerging markets and set up operations in places like China, India and Mexico. But could the tide be turning on the era of offshoring manufacturing from the US to low cost countries? Interview with Brent Wilson, Director of Production Planning at ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA. Full Video »

What do process excellence, science and 13 Nobel laureates have in common? Up until recently – not much at all. But Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a US-based government research facility, has set out to change all that. Full Podcast »

Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like to work in a different job or industry within process improvement? PEX Network's twice monthly "A Day in the Life" series continues this week with Shawn Carner, Process Excellence Senior Technical Manager at Roche Pharmaceuticals. Full Column »

The results are in! The Process Excellence Network  and Market Value Solutions (MVS) have completed their first Global Benchmarking Study of Trends and Success Factors in Business Process Excellence (BPE)  in order to find out:   • How companies are measuring the success of their BPE initiatives, • How businesses are using the VOC (Voice of the Customer) to identify Full Whitepaper »