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Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard Workshops
(1-Day)
June 13, 2009
Detroit, MI
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Tomar, Portugal
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June 11, 2009
August 6, 2009
Austin, Texas
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December 7-11, 2009
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Sep. 14-18, 2009
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Featured
eSmarter Blog: Lean
Improvements and Facility Closings: Is the wrong question being asked?
Many
conferences highlight the benefits of Lean and provide plant
tours during the same week. Lean presentations often reference
the Toyota Production System model (TPS) and suggest building
a culture where associates look for problems to solve quickly
to constantly improve quality; i.e., quick kaizen.
On these
tours you can typically see the benefits of their lean work;
however, often in these challenging times it has been my experience
there is much idleness. The facility obvious had the capability
to produce much more if the demand; i.e., the organizational
bottleneck is now obviously sales. Read
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Should
focus be given to Lean or Six Sigma?
Written
by Forrest W. Breyfogle, III
Linkedin.com
Discussion: The prominence difference between Six
Sigma and Lean could be due to Six Sigma been able to move
beyond its manufacturing roots into other disciplines, while
the perception of Lean is still largely a manufacturing process
improvement tool. What
are your thoughts on this?
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Understanding
CpK.
Written
by Rick Haynes |
I woke
up this morning and found two iSixSigma questions posted about
Cpk usage. I wrote comments on each and felt a lot of frustration
about the miss use of capability metrics. I know there are
appropriate uses of Cp and Cpk, but many uses are found when
there is no check of the underlying assumptions or requirements.
I also worked at a large manufacturer and we saw suppliers
purposely miss use the Cpk to get their lots accepted. In
the end we gave it up as a procurement requirement. It was
too easy to game. I mean it is just an equation that we program
into excel, right? Read
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Statistics, Process Improvement, and Baseball.
Written
by Rick Haynes |
This
weekend I saw a 60-minutes piece on Bill James. He is a regular
guy who has spent most of his free time since high school
analyzing baseball performance. Using every class he attended
in college to better his skills in analyzing baseball. He
used the same statistical methods that are taught to black
belts in order to take the post game statistics and understand
the true measures of performance. I believe Bill is a self
taught black belt in baseball. Read
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| The
Elephant in the Room – Corporate Performance Management
Issues and it’s Reinvention:Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma
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Lean
Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), and other
process improvement efforts have helped organizations
improve; however, these efforts often occur in organizational
silos, where the benefits are not felt at the big picture
executive level.
Lean
conference presentations often describe how all company
associates in a spirit of organizational improvement
need to continually identify and resolve waste-reduction
problems; i.e., overproduction, waiting, transportation,
inventory, over-processing, motion, and defects.
Even
though there can be significant benefits from these
efforts, Lean practitioner conversations at those same
conferences can be describing how their organization
eliminated much operational waste only to find that
executive management decided to close their facility.
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Lean
six sigma projects are performed in many areas of business.
There are a few that require an estimation of future performance
when there is no chance to test or evaluate the new process.
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