Lean Six Sigma News

• Firms Should Measure Return-on-investment of Lean Manufacturing

  March 5, 2012: Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma programs are certainly popular, but manufacturers often don’t measure their bottom-line effectiveness.

• Business Leaders Counting on New Best-Selling Book

  March 5, 2012: NOVACES process improvement consultant and business turnaround expert Bob Sproull recently released his newest book to industry acclaim, “Epiphanized: Integrating Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma.”

• Going "Green" Garners HC Starck The Evolution of Manufacturing Award

  March 2, 2012: Recognized for its excellence in manufacturing execution and implementation of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and a Sustainable Energy Management system, H.C. Starck also realized benefits from going “green.”

• New Offerings from Juran Institute

  March 1, 2012: Juran Institute is excited to announce their attendance at this year’s 24th Annual Quest for Excellence Conference, also known as the “Official Conference for the Baldrige Award,” being held in Washington, DC.

• Epic Technologies Takes Top Honors in Service Excellence Awards

  March 1, 2012: “It is clear that our customers value our continuing focus on Lean Sigma and the added investments we have made in product development support. We look forward to continuing to demonstrate leadership in both our business model and our commitment to customer service,” said Bhawnesh Mathur, EPIC’s CEO.

• Aerospace Supplier Leans On Lean Manufacturing to Seize Growth Opportunities

  March 1, 2012: After several previous lean efforts failed to take root, President and CEO Dominick Pagano in December created an executive-level post to “really take [Lean] to the level.”

• ERI Positions Itself for Future Growth

  February 29, 2012: Energy Recovery Inc (NASDAQ:ERII), a global leader in the design and development of energy recovery devices for desalination and other industrial processes, today announced that the Company is restructuring its engineering and manufacturing leadership team to position itself for anticipated future growth.

• Optogan Takes Lean to The Extreme With 500wWCob Led Platform

  February 29, 2012: Optogan’s new X10 Chip-on-Board module (COB) is based on the vision of scaleability and Lean processing for luminaire manufacturing.

• Manufacturers Face Skilled-worker Shortage

  February 29, 2012: Bucks and Montgomery County manufacturers are meeting Wednesday morning to talk about a key issue – after years of declines in manufacturing employment, they are facing looming shortages of highly skilled workers.

• Marines Sharpen Warfighting Skills With Business Management Strategies

  February 28, 2012: Marines around the world are being taught how to improve warfighting skills with business management strategies through the Marine Corps Continuous Process Improvement Lean Six Sigma Program.