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Over the past 30–40 years, manufacturers have made dramatic leaps in improving their businesses by using lean manufacturing
and Six Sigma techniques. The systems these businesses use, however, have changed relatively little in comparison. The ERP
systems manufacturing companies rely on to run their bus (...)
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Tackling the transformation to lean production is high-priority in the aerospace industry. After all, lean manufacturing
eliminates waste from essential manufacturing processes and helps you measure up to your competitors. But how can you attain
true lean transformation—and what specific steps does you (...)
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Transforming an enterprise to a lean supply chain requires both enabling technology and discipline. By following some specific
guidelines to extend lean methodology, you can proceed through your supply chain transformation to become effectively lean. (...)
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Transforming an enterprise to a lean supply chain requires both enabling technology and discipline. By following some specific
guidelines to exten...
Published:
2005-09-14
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Many companies have used lean principles to move from a decentralized corporate management mode to a hybrid model—recognizing
that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient and effective. An effective lean
transformation eliminates more than the most obv (...)
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Approach to ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Lean Maintenance: Best Practices to Turn Asset Management into a Profit Center. Get Free White Papers Related To Lean Maintenance.
It’s common knowledge that asset downtime disrupts production and drives up both process and per-unit operating costs. However,
executives often lose sight of this because t (...)
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Lean Maintenance: Best Practices to Turn Asset Management into a Profit Center. Get Free White Papers Related To Lean Maintenance.
It’s common know...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Begin at the End: a Good Lean Strategy Starts with Defining Your Ultimate Goal. Read Current White Paper for a Good Lean Strategy
Starts with Defining Your Ultimate Goal. You know the statistics—lean can shorten your lead times, reduce inventories, cut
operating costs, free up resources, and more. But c (...)
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Begin at the End: a Good Lean Strategy Starts with Defining Your Ultimate Goal. Read Current White Paper for a Good Lean Strategy
Starts with Defin...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Business process management (BPM) and process improvement support the management and continuous improvement of business processes,
both cross-departmental and enterprise-wide. How can you empower the transformation to lean and manage business operations
in the various stages of its transformation, and ma (...)
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... and continuous improvement of business processes, both cross-departmental and enterprise-wide.
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers. Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. While consumer products manufacturers are relatively recent adopters of lean programs,
they are already achieving value through a firm commitment t (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers. Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five main steps to achieving lean transition are defining value, mapping the value stream, making the activities
flow, responding to customer demand, and continuous (...)
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Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five m...
Published:
2006-02-15
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... Summit in Orlando in September, and I’m still struck by the totally different attitudes of companies
that choose lean transformation versus conventional non ...
Published:
2011-10-20
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Lean IT Governance: The Most Realistic and Attainable Approach to IT Governance.Reports and Other Software to Use In Your
Complex System of Lean IT Governance. The most realistic and attainable approach to IT governance is a "lean" approach via
project portfolio management (PPM). The lean approach require (...)
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Lean IT Governance: The Most Realistic and Attainable Approach to IT Governance. Reports and Other Software to Use In Your
Complex System of Lean IT...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Lean Supply Chain. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
When flexibility and speed are requisites for success, it’s the lean organization that leads the race. World-class manufacturing
organizations know the value of focusing on t (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Lean Supply Chain. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. When flexibility ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Lean Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
For years, manufacturers have been driven by sales forecasts and the need to maximize production efficiency at every level
of operation. But in order to be successful, manufactu (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Lean Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
For years, manufac...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Study Pinpoints Areas of Growth for After-Market Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives. Find Free IT Guides, Case Studies,
and Other Resources Related to Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives. Increasingly, companies in the aviation industry are
outsourcing their maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO (...)
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Study Pinpoints Areas of Growth for After-Market Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives. Find Free IT Guides, Case Studies,
and Other Resources Re...
Published:
2010-03-11
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... compatibility between lean practices and enterprise resource planning
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the transformation to lean ...
Published:
2010-08-05
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Abstract:
Manufacturing operations are characterized by a need for factory transformation management. Via software that uses a "virtual
factory" approach to synchronize the supply chain, Pelion Systems is attempting to establish a new market category, manufacturing
process optimization, to satisfy this need. (...)
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Manufacturing operations are characterized by a need for factory transformation management. Via software that uses a "virtual
factory" approach to...
Published:
2006-01-31
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The theory of constraints (TOC) is similar to, yet different from, the lean philosophy. TOC focuses on optimizing production
through critical bottlenecks in order to meet market demand. (...)
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lean enterprise transformation:
The theory of constraints (TOC) is similar to, yet different from, the lean philosophy. TOC focuses on optimizing production
through critical bott...
Published:
2006-02-22
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The Strategic CFO. Read IT Reports Related To Strategic CFO. Financial pressures can strain even the most efficient and lean
company. So forward-thinking companies should now turn to the chief financial officer (CFO). The strategic CFO is equipped
with the tools, plans, and fiscal philosophy that can tra (...)
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The Strategic CFO. Read IT Reports Related To Strategic CFO. Financial pressures can strain even the most efficient and lean
company. So forward-th...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Assess Your Enterprise Agility. Download the newest White Papers for Enterprise Agility. While different business strategies
have been used to insulate firms from change, chief executive officers (CEOs) are beginning to see that their companies need
to become more agile in making changes to strategy, oper (...)
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Assess Your Enterprise Agility. Download the newest White Papers for Enterprise Agility. While different business strategies
have been used to insu...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Flow manufacturing leverages techniques to help manufacturers create any product on any given day, in any given quantity
including the "quantity of one" (i.e., through the so-called mixed-model production), while keeping inventories to a minimum
and shortening cycle times in order to quickly fill custome (...)
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Flow manufacturing leverages techniques to help manufacturers create any product on any given day, in any given quantity including
the "quantity o...
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2004-01-14