Lean Six Sigma News

• Micross Announces New Director of Corporate Quality

  June 23, 2017: In this newly created role, Carey Hobbs is charged with defining and directing global quality and process improvements across all operational areas and locations to further improve performance and increase overall customer satisfaction.

• Renishaw Launches Manufacturing Education Program with Greenville Technical College

  June 23, 2017: Students take courses in industrial automation, robotics, CNC machining, manufacturing management, metrology/quality management, process design and Lean Six Sigma, among others.

• Clarkson University Engineering & Management Students Complete LSS Projects at Hospital

  June 23, 2017: They determined ways to reduce food waste; streamlined the process of transporting meal trays to patients; redesigned the scheduling process for total joint replacements, reducing the average number of business days required in the preoperative schedule from 37 days to 24 days; trimmed the time to access safe patient handling equipment from about 7 minutes to 3 minutes; and improved the way digital patient information is entered, cutting the average waiting time for orthopedics patients in the St. Lawrence Health System orthopedics registration area from 16.5 minutes to 10.5 minutes.

• GBMP Offers Free Production Floor Walk Through

  June 22, 2017: GBMP can provide the most accurate and customized plan for workforce education in Continuous Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma only after a thorough evaluation of the unique issues and needs of a business along with insight into current processes and culture.

• Bechtel's Barbara Rusinko Elected to Nuclear Energy Institute's Board of Directors

  June 22, 2017: Rusinko is a registered professional engineer and Six Sigma champion with a master’s degree in engineering from The University of Alabama – Huntsville, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of South Carolina.

• Parker Aerospace Operational Initiatives Power Excellence for Customers

  June 20, 2017: A Parker Aerospace initiative that supports the Six Sigma pillar of its LISC 6 effort is its zero defects program (ZDP).

• Quality Achievement Challenge for Engineers in India

  June 19, 2017: “Achieving quality in everyday products is a challenge for Indian companies because the economy is not big enough to allow spending on research and development.”

• DSI Announces New Operations Manager

  June 16, 2017: “With his extensive optical coating manufacturing experience, lean manufacturing, and the successful implementation of an optical factory of the future, [Jerry Camotta] is an excellent choice for this position.”

• The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd. Hires New President

  June 16, 2017: Csaba Reider has a proven track record of transforming companies across multiple areas and industries including contract manufacturing, product quality, purchasing, logistics, Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing, branded and private label packaged goods and real estate.

• West Liberty Foods Wins Manufacturing Leadership Award

  June 15, 2017: As the technology that powers West Liberty Food’s lean manufacturing system, Leading2Lean was also recognized for its significant role in enabling the food processor’s award-winning project.