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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Next R(E)volution of Lean. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. By seeing a business as a "value system" for customers, companies can shift lean strategic priorities towards
growth-oriented targets instead of cost-cutting. Instead o (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Next R(E)volution of Lean. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. By seeing...
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2010-03-11
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Kanban—the Japanese term for physical or visual signs that trigger replenishment, which can be a useful part of lean
manufacturing—is not a good fit in some situations. Alternatives to kanban can also eliminate waste in lean production
by addressing inventory, materials, and replenishment pro (...)
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Kanban—the Japanese term for physical or visual signs that trigger replenishment, which can be a useful part
of lean manufacturing—is ... ...
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2010-03-11
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Lean manufacturing emphasizes the minimization of the amount of all the resources (including time) used in the various activities
of the enterprise. The typical areas of hidden waste are over-production, waiting, transportation, over-processing, motion,
excessive inventory, and defective units. (...)
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Lean manufacturing emphasizes the minimization of the amount of all the resources (including time) used in the various activities
of the enterpris...
Published:
2006-02-13
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A number of lean manufacturing tools and practices have long been used to reduce manufacturing waste. These include the five
S's, visual controls, standardized work, mistake proofing, total productive maintenance, cellular manufacturing, single-digit
setup, pull systems, sequencing, activity-based costin (...)
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A number of lean manufacturing tools and practices have long been used to reduce manufacturing waste. These include the five
S's, visual controls,...
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2006-02-14
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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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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...
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2010-03-11
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... As someone who practically has a shrine to Japanese made electronics and two Toyotas
in my garage, I’ve ... Especially since they pretty much invented lean. ...
Published:
2008-12-16
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... Production Systems)— which has as its core philosophy cost reduction through elimination of waste (muda
Japanese).The principles deployed in Lean made Toyota ...
Published:
2008-02-05
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... On a high level, lean manufacturing is all about eliminating waste (“muda” in Japanese),
including excess production (and consequent inventory ...
Published:
2010-11-19
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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 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...
Published:
2004-01-14
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the extended
enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors excel in depends on their original ERP system's suitability for repetitive versus
to-order environments. (...)
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the
extended enterprise resource...
Published:
2006-02-20
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Lean Simplified: Part Two.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System of Lean Simplified. Part one of the “Lean
Simplified” series looked at manufacturing wastes, lean principles, and the benefits of lean manufacturing. Here, in Part
two, you’ll be taken through the action stage of lea (...)
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Lean Simplified: Part Two.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System of Lean Simplified. Part one of the “Lean
Simplified” series lo...
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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You're a step ahead with TEC's Lean and Green Manufacturing Buyer's Guide. While the need for sustainable development is affecting
how organizations do business, the idea of environmental and corporate responsibility as value drivers is still relatively
new. Many companies are just beginning to adopt an a (...)
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You're a step ahead with TEC's Lean and Green Manufacturing Buyer's Guide. While the need for sustainable development
is affecting how organization...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
You're a step ahead with TEC's Lean and Green Manufacturing Buyer's Guide. While the need for sustainable development is affecting
how organizations do business, the idea of environmental and corporate responsibility as value drivers is still relatively
new. Many companies are just beginning to adopt an a (...)
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lean japanese:
You're a step ahead with TEC's Lean and Green Manufacturing Buyer's Guide. While the need for sustainable development
is affecting how organization...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Even before the mega merger, PeopleSoft had already set it sights on a bigger manufacturing presence. PeopleSoft’s acquisition
of mid-to-large ERP system developer J.D. Edwards this summer, and most recently demand flow and lean manufacturing software
solution from JCIT, might indicate some deep though (...)
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Even before the mega merger, PeopleSoft had already set it sights on a bigger manufacturing presence. PeopleSoft’s acquisition
of mid-to-large ERP...
Published:
2004-01-27
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Despite the digital marketplaces’ limited takeoff, the Fujitsu/Glovia's vision still remains to become the leader in B2B
e-commerce for the global enterprises, pragmatically responding first to business globalization with the current multi-national
capabilities of the former glovia.hub product. (...)
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Despite the digital marketplaces’ limited takeoff, the Fujitsu/Glovia's vision still remains to become the leader in B2B
e-commerce for the global...
Published:
2004-01-22
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Glovia has managed to maintain its existing customers' satisfaction level while successfully re-inventing itself. As a result,
it has maintained a presence among the top 10 manufacturing ERP vendors in several markets. One cannot help feeling that Glovia's
knowledge of its target market has always been d (...)
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Glovia has managed to maintain its existing customers' satisfaction level while successfully re-inventing itself. As a
result, it has maintained a...
Published:
2004-01-23
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Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-specific functionality with the flexibility to accommodate each company's unique processes goes a long
way toward improving the functional fit and the speed of (...)
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Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-s...
Published:
2004-05-03
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Do you want to have a competitive edge? Read this white paper about Product Data Management (PDM). Canadian manufacturers
are getting squeezed. Challenged by a rising Canadian dollar, forced to hold the line on prices in the US market, pressured
by customer demand for lower prices, better quality, and qui (...)
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Do you want to have a competitive edge? Read this white paper about Product Data Management (PDM). Canadian manufacturers
are getting squeezed. Cha...
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2010-03-11