Lean Six Sigma News

• PerfectServe Expands Chicago Hospital Implementation Team

  May 16, 2012: Jeff Andretich, Lauren McGrail, and Craig Jaffe will be responsible for guiding PerfectServe’s hospital clients through the deployment process of the company’s intelligent communications system, which eliminates hospital errors and enables nurses and doctors to better coordinate care.

• Crouse Partners With EMS Professionals

  May 16, 2012: The training program involves officials from Crouse Hospital and a number of EMS representatives from across the region. The group is being taught the techniques of Lean-Six Sigma by faculty from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

• 5 Ways Process is Killing Your Productivity

  May 15, 2012: Good processes can turn especially dangerous when they creep from manufacturing lines and finance departments into brainstorms and research labs. Some of the worst offenders have been companies that implemented overarching processes like Six Sigma, a rigidly data-driven quality-management program originally designed to tackle manufacturing problems.

• Accuride Corporation Names Greg Kern Vice President-Imperial Group

  May 14, 2012: “With the right leadership team in place, Imperial Group will continue to provide consistently high product quality and impeccable customer service, while also implementing Lean manufacturing systems and other measures to optimize overall operating performance.”

• Autos: Learning Lean Production Through Toyoda's Loom

  May 14, 2012: In the visitor’s center at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana in Princeton, Ind., is one of two working Toyoda Type G Looms outside of Japan.

• Nike Reduces Lead Times Through Lean Manufacturing

  May 12, 2012: Supplier factories that adopted lean principles were more productive, cut lead times and produced fewer defects, the sportswear brand has announced.

• Gemba Academy Offers Free Webinar On The Leader's Role in Lean Success

  May 11, 2012: Bob Emiliani is a professor in the School of Engineering and Technology at Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn., where he teaches courses on Lean leadership, Lean supply chain management, failure analysis of management decisions, and research methods. Prior to joining academia in 1999, Bob worked in industry for 15 years and had management responsibility in engineering (R&D, new product development) and operations (manufacturing and supply chain). Gemba Academy offers over 230 HD-quality video training modules on lean manufacturing and lean enterprise concepts such as 5S, Hoshin Planning, Value Streams, Kaizen Leadership, Practical Problem Solving, Standard Work and Leader Standard Work, Seven Quality Control Tools, Total Productive Maintenance, Just in Time, and 3P Production Preparation Process.

• 'Zero Defects Manufacturing' Targeted By Brunel University Researchers

  May 10, 2012: Brunel University has been awarded £213,390 by the European Commission to pursue the holy grail of ‘zero defects’ in micro manufacturing.

• Planning at Waikato Hospital Wins Award

  May 10, 2012: By far the biggest category, there were 14 entries in the process improvement category claimed by Waikato Hospital, which looks at recognising how planned improvement activities – both clinical and non-clinical – led to significant improvements in patient care or process improvement.

• MPS Implements Lean Manufacturing Program in Europe

  May 9, 2012: Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. (“MPS”), a leading manufacturer of print and packaging for the cosmetics, healthcare, horticulture, media, and consumer markets today announced plans to implement formalized LEAN manufacturing programs at its facilities in Obersulm, Germany and Tzcew, Poland.