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Companies everywhere have realized the need for greater efficiency and improved quality within the enterprise to stay productive
and competitive in today's business environment. In order to obtain these efficiencies, corporations have turned to the successful
model used by manufacturers for years known a (...)
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... by manufacturers for years known as lean, just-in-time (JIT), or kaizen.
... Most manufacturers launch their lean initiatives in order to maximize
work flow and ...
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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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Certain lean initiatives can be hugely strengthened with a synergistic enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation—and
vice versa. In other cases, the two efforts should be viewed as separate initiatives. But it doesn’t depend on “what you want”:
specific lean initiatives will fail if speci (...)
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... Paper Description: Certain lean initiatives can be hugely strengthened
with a synergistic enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation—and vice versa. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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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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Enhancing Lean Practices: Lean Adoption in the Industrial Machinery and Components Industry. Read Guides and IT Reports Associated
with Industrial Machinery and Components Industry. Customer churn rates are higher than ever: although businesses say they
are devoted to loyalty, their management systems and (...)
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Enhancing Lean Practices: Lean Adoption in the Industrial Machinery and Components Industry. Read Guides and IT Reports Associated
with Industrial ...
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2010-03-11
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Transitioning to Lean with Oracle Flow Manufacturing. Get Case Studies and Other Software to Use In Your Self-assessment for
Transitioning to Lean with Oracle Flow Manufacturing. Lean execution strategies within enterprises and across supply chains
can dramatically reduce cycle times, improve quality, red (...)
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Transitioning to Lean with Oracle Flow Manufacturing. Get Case Studies and Other Software to Use In Your Self-assessment for
Transitioning to Lean ...
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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...
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2010-03-11
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A supply chain management system (SCM) is a critical success factor for implementing lean manufacturing. The SCM system helps
define product structure, costing information, financial information and reports and is a useful tool in the decision-making
process. (...)
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A supply chain management system (SCM) is a critical success factor for implementing lean manufacturing. The SCM system helps
define product struc...
Published:
2009-08-10
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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 (...)
Excerpt related to
lean kaizen and lean initiatives:
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:
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:
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 Manufacturing Success.Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
Manufacturing today is fraught with uncertainties in the supply chain due to a variety of global issues, including weather
and exchange rates. You can counter supply problems (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Manufacturing Success.Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. Manufacturing to...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
State of the MES Software Marketplace. Find Out IT Solutions and Other Applications for Your Decision Associated with the
MES Softwares. Despite predictions that it would be subsumed by enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors encroaching from
above and automation vendors encroaching from below, the man (...)
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State of the MES Software Marketplace. Find Out IT Solutions and Other Applications for Your Decision Associated with the
MES Softwares. Despite pr...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
State of the MES Software Marketplace. Find Out IT Solutions and Other Applications for Your Decision Associated with the
MES Softwares. Despite predictions that it would be subsumed by enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors encroaching from
above and automation vendors encroaching from below, the man (...)
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lean kaizen and lean initiatives:
State of the MES Software Marketplace. Find Out IT Solutions and Other Applications for Your Decision Associated with the
MES Softwares. Despite pr...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Learn about the five strategies used by successful small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers. Download this free
white paper. A common issue for small to medium business (SMB) manufacturers is how to increase revenue and grow their businesses
without significantly adding staff. Unfortunately, th (...)
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Do More with Less: The Five Strategies Used by Successful SMB Manufacturers. Source: Infor. Document Type: White Paper Description
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Published:
2010-03-11
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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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lean kaizen and lean initiatives:
Do you want to have a competitive edge? Read this white paper about Product Data Management (PDM). Canadian manufacturers
are getting squeezed. Cha...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
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 (...)
Excerpt related to
lean kaizen and lean initiatives:
Do you want to have a competitive edge? Read this white paper about Product Data Management (PDM). Canadian manufacturers
are getting squeezed. Cha...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Demand-Driven Strategies. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. Many manufacturing companies have adopted or are considering the adoption of a demand-driven strategy. However,
if you want to be demand-driven, you aren’t going to achi (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Demand-Driven Strategies. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Many manufac...
Published:
2010-03-11