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(Rucker & Associates: Raleigh, NC) -- Getting lean can often mean going green. As energy costs continue to rise, company decision makers search for ways to make their organizations more efficient. Rucker & Associates president David Rucker says lean Six Sigma strategies, usually applied to…
(Gemba Research: Mukilteo, WA) -- Don’t miss the next Japan Kaikaku Experience, a best-practice benchmarking tour of lean manufacturing companies in Japan. This is a full-immersion experience in lean culture. The kaikaku tour is designed to open your eyes, broaden your horizons, deepen your…
(Profit Finders: Strongsville, OH) -- Profit Finders, a proprietary data collection and analysis company, has developed a web-based technology rooted in the concepts of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. The technology is designed to capture and analyze detailed cost and process data.…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- In the book Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey: Driving Culture Change to Increase Value (CRC Press, 2010), by Joan Wellman, Patrick Hagan, and Dr. Howard Jeffries, every health care organization can learn from Seattle Children’s Hospital’s continuous improvement…
(QI Macros: Denver) -- Most people are afraid of math and statistics. They worry that they’re not smart enough to use them correctly, or that someone will challenge them. And who can blame them when statistics “speak” is loaded with phrases like, “cannot reject the null hypothesis.” Great jargon…
(WCBF: Chicago) -- WCBF’s 10th Annual Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit, “Healthcare Transformation to Achieve and Sustain Excellence—Culture, Leadership, and the Impact of Government-Initiated Reform” is the largest gathering of senior-level executives responsible for…
(Edgecombe Community College: Tarboro, NC) -- Problem solving in manufacturing likely has been around since the first handmade tools were designed a couple million years ago.
But the phrase “problem solving” is relatively new, and so is its application in today’s world of business and industry…
(Apollo Associated Services: Midland, MI) -- Well-known for helping Fortune 500 and blue-chip companies solve recurring problems and reduce risk through its root cause analysis (RCA) training and consulting, Apollo Associated Services LLC has announced the 2011 schedule for its well-attended…
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n his new book, Essentials for the Improvement of Healthcare Using Lean & Six Sigma (CRC Press, 2010), author Diomidis H. Stamatis (aka Dean) presents solutions to the problems that plague the health care industry by providing case studies and explaining a multitude of quality tools and…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended-learning support technologies, has released EngineRoom-based versions of its popular lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt online training courses. Each course now includes a…
(Lean Enterprise Institute: Cambridge, MA) -- Next year’s Lean Transformation Summit explores lean practice from two angles. From a Fundamental perspective, you’ll see how large and small companies in a variety of industries launched and sustained lean transformations. The same companies also will…
(Zontec Inc.: Cincinnati) -- Zontec Inc. has announced 10 new features for its Synergy 1000T v. 7.0 statistical process control (SPC) software that is due for general release Dec. 1.
Synergy 1000 is designed for quality improvement on stand-alone PCs and local work-group computers. The…
(Business901: Fort Wayne, IN) -- Released as an e-book, Lean Marketing House, by Joe Dager (Business901, 2010) is now available for downloading.
“When you first hear the terms ‘lean’ and ‘value stream,’ most of us think about manufacturing processes and waste,” says Dager. “Putting the word ‘…
Cummins Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services diesel engines and related technology around the world. It serves its customers through a network of 500 distributors and more than 5,200 dealer locations in more than 190 countries and territories. Cummins incorporates quality in everything…
(High Technology Seminars: Cold Spring, NY) -- High Technology Seminars has announced three events for the beginning of 2011: “Visual Lean Basics—Lean Eyes—Learning to See Waste,” “Human Error Prevention,” and “Root Cause Analysis.”
“Visual Lean Basics—Lean Eyes—Learning to See Waste”
This…
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Gold Mine: a Novel of Lean Turnaround (Lean Enterprise Institute, 2005), a popular lean business novel about a failing company that survives by adopting lean manufacturing, is now available as an audio book.
Written by Freddy and Michael Ballé, the novel deftly…
(Factory Strategies Group: Morro Bay, CA) -- Factory Strategies Group has released its new Lean Enterprise Strategy Kit to support the strategic planning efforts at organizations and smaller companies. The kit brings together the best of traditional SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and…
(InfinityQS International: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, has released ProFicient 4.3, the latest upgrade to its real-time quality control solution. The new version delivers powerful cost analysis, data integration, and…
(i-nexus: Coventry, UK) -- Are you looking for ways to ensure your business strategies are not just planned, but cascaded and executed effectively? Join Paul Docherty, CEO of i-nexus and expert on strategy execution, the emerging discipline of business execution, as he shares how leading…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning support technologies, has announced the dates of its upcoming live sessions for its Master Black Belt (MBB) development program, run jointly with the Fisher College of Business…
(AkzoNobel Car Refinishes Americas: Norcross, GA) -- AkzoNobel Car Refinishes Americas and Toyota Motor Sales USA have agreed to combine experience and resources surrounding process improvement methods for collision repair operations, resulting in the Toyota Production System for Collision (TPS-C…
(StatPoint Technologies Inc.: Warrenton, VA) -- StatPoint Technologies Inc., the developer of the Statgraphics line of statistical tools used in data analysis across the spectrum of business management, manufacturing, and scientific research, has launched a free Statgraphics User Community Forum…
(PowerSteering Software: Cambridge, MA) -- PowerSteering Software, the on-demand project and portfolio management (PPM) solution for managing lean Six Sigma and other strategic programs, will host a new webcast on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 12 p.m. EDT. The free session, “Using Lean to Change Culture in…
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ealth care reform, insurance changes, more insured patients, never events, changing reimbursements, accountable care organizations, medical home—what does it all mean? How do we react? How do we keep up with all the changes? The questions are many, and the answers are few, so what do we do…
(Productivity Press: New York) --Toyota Kaizen Methods: Six Steps to Improvement focuses on the skills and techniques practiced inside Toyota Motor Corp. during the past decades. This workbook focuses on the actual training course concepts and methods used by Toyota to develop employee skill level…