Lean Six Sigma News

• UI Wins Top Efficiency Awards from Lean Consortium

  October 20, 2017: The Iowa Lean Consortium’s (ILC) two annual awards for 2017 both went to the University of Iowa in recognition of numerous campus efficiency efforts, which saved money and staff time and greatly reduced error rates.

• Promapp Ranked #4 in TIN Top Ten Hot Emerging Companies

  October 18, 2017: Promapp provides cloud-based business process mapping software which enables process improvement, quality assurance and risk management in line with ISO, Six Sigma and Lean principles.

• Canon U.S.A. Set to Promote Lean Document Management Processes at AME 2017

  October 11, 2017: Lean document processing will be the prevalent theme at this year’s show.

• How Ping Pong Balls Could Inform Kern County's Transition to Lean Six Sigma Management Approach

  October 11, 2017: For much of the year the county has been training 200 of its top managers in Lean Six Sigma and building teams that will be tasked with coming up with projects to improve county operations, reduce costs and streamline processes.

• Tekmar Energy Expands Management Team with Recent Recruits

  October 10, 2017: Dean Milburn, joins as the Production Manager, and has over 25 years of manufacturing experience from multiple sectors and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

• Atlas Axillia Wins Four Golds at NCQP Awards 2017

  October 10, 2017: Atlas Axillia won three Gold Awards in the Kaizen suggestions category and one Gold Award in the Quality Circles category, cementing the company’s reputation for the highest commitment to quality in its products and processes.

• ABB Expands Indonesian Footprint With New Switchgear Plant

  October 6, 2017: ABB said the new factory will deploy Lean production concepts and is equipped with state-of-the-art production and testing equipment to ensure precision assembly and testing.

• New Guide Applies Lean Management for Higher Lab Efficiencies

  October 5, 2017: The guide is based on two Japanese Lean Manufacturing principles, namely Jidoka, which means empowering machines or operators to stop production automatically on discovery of a defect in a process; and Andon, which is a visual signal or system such as a light or sound alarm, designed to alert staff of a quality or process problem so that remedial action can be taken.

• Competence HR Hosts Power Breakfast Event

  October 3, 2017: The event titled ‘Enhancing Ebita and Production using Lean and Six Sigma methodology’ was conducted by Dr Rajkumar Palanna, CEO of eMpulse Global, an IT, big data and outsourcing company.

• Wiregrass Hosts Business Training

  October 1, 2017: Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Department of Economic Development is offering the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification course beginning Oct. 16.