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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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Enterprise Asset Management Strategies: Creating Social and Financial Value by Going Green. Download current Guides about
Enterprise Asset Management Strategies Progressive companies are discovering that they can optimize processes and assets to
make the best use of resources, reduce negative impact on th (...)
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2010-03-11
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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...
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2010-03-11
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Getting lean is not a simple task; it requires an aggressive, iterative approach to examine complex tradeoffs. And given
the number of variables that characterize a distribution center (DC) and its constituent stock keeping units (SKUs), performing
this type of analysis without using the right tools can (...)
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Lean Inventory by the Numbers. Source: Chiron Technologies, Inc. ... Find out how a tool-based
approach can make getting lean easier. ...
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2010-03-11
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Companies that have moved from a highly reactive environment to a more planned one notice significant improvement. A computer
maintenance management or enterprise asset management system is useful tool to create a planned environment, help build accurate
equipment history, and develop comprehensive analy (...)
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Companies that have moved from a highly reactive environment to a more planned one notice significant improvement. A computer
maintenance manageme...
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2008-08-06
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A lean supply chain consists of two major components—lean manufacturing and lean distribution—which focus on satisfying customer
demand efficiently, at the lowest cost, with the least amount of waste. But what if your replenishment strategy is your distribution
center’s weakest link? To improve cus (...)
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What Your Refrigerator Can Teach You about Lean Inventory. ... Download <strong>What
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2010-03-11
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Success in today s manufacturing sector requires disciplined approaches to all aspects of business strategy. For process
improvement, companies implemented lean manufacturing programs. Data integration needs led to data warehouses and enterprise
resource planning systems. Companies must now dedicate the (...)
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3 Components of an Effective Cost Management System. ... For process improvement,
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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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2010-03-11
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Globalization, technology stabilization, inventory visibility, and traceability are forcing organizations to reevaluate supplier
relationship management systems. The benefits of a customer relationship management system that can be applied to a supply
chain can streamline operations and increase bottom l (...)
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Globalization, technology stabilization, inventory visibility, and traceability are forcing organizations to reevaluate supplier
relationship mana...
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2007-07-13
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The main cause of lean maintenance failure is that companies fail to focus on asset reliability. The reliability approach
to capacity, which includes risk prioritization analyses of assets, can help a company achieve lean success. (...)
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... system and computer managed maintenance system (CMMS) or enterprise
asset management (EAM) system. The team is supported by a distributed, lean
maintenance, or ...
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2005-07-12
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SSI's approach appeals to process manufacturers, as well as some discrete manufacturers with short lead times and high volumes,
where the traditional manufacturing resource planning (MRP) approach often shows many shortcomings (and can even be a recipe
for disaster). (...)
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SSI's approach appeals to process manufacturers, as well as some discrete manufacturers with short lead times and high
volumes, where the traditio...
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2006-07-26
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Inventory Management Technology Strategies for Distribution .Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. Inventory has been—and continues to be—the lifeblood of the distribution marketplace.
While many companies are slow to adopt new str (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Inventory Management Technology Strategies for Distribution .Specific,
Measurable, Achievable, Re...
Published:
2010-03-11
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In today's competitive engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environment, procuring components on time and within budget
is crucial. With rising fuel costs and increased international trade, supply chain management software can help ETO organizations
get—and stay—ahead of the competition. (...)
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In today's competitive engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environment, procuring components on time and within budget
is crucial. With rising f...
Published:
2008-07-18
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An Alarming Look At The Mismatch Between Talent Strategies, Processes, and Corporate Objectives. Download IT Guide on Talent
Strategies, Processes and Corporate Objectives. A survey of professional services firms shows a serious disconnect between
the desired operational state of the firms and their curre (...)
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An Alarming Look At The Mismatch Between Talent Strategies, Processes, and Corporate Objectives. Download IT Guide on Talent
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2010-03-11
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How can we determine the right maintenance strategy for a specific asset? To meet the objectives of lean, we need to evaluate
the cost of failure in terms of both not meeting business objectives and any extra cost due to the need for unplanned or even
emergency repairs. (...)
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Lean Asset Management--Is Preventive Maintenance Anti-Lean? ...
Asset reliability can and must contribute to lean asset management by minimizing waste.
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2004-12-20
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Managing assets needs to be done in a truly proactive approach, one that ties the management of physical assets to the corporate
objectives. The initial momentum to begin the sequence comes from the vision of a future state. This needs to clearly represent
the corporate objectives and goals, and expressi (...)
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... supporting business needs, and work processes defined, attention can now turn to the use of an existing
or future computerized maintenance management system(1 ...
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2003-12-20
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About two-thirds of SoftBrands' revenue comes from its manufacturing division, which includes evolution, a platform neutral,
extended enterprise resource planning product, and DemandStream for lean automation. (...)
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About two-thirds of SoftBrands' revenue comes from its manufacturing division, which includes evolution, a platform neutral,
extended enterprise r...
Published:
2006-03-01
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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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To be certain its materials management functions were up to par with industry best practices, a South African fertilizer
plant obtained the services of an inventory optimization firm. In doing so, it was able to identify weak links in its inventory
control processes, and achieved a savings of over $2 mil (...)
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2010-03-11
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In the competitive auto industry, Nissen Chemitec America knows the need for lean manufacturing. Its legacy enterprise resource
planning (ERP) system was preventing the company from adopting lean principles, and so in 2003 it looked for an ERP tailored
for contract manufacturers serving the auto industry (...)
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... industry. Learn how the new system helps the company stay lean within
the confines of compliance and changing customer demands. ...
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2010-03-11