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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
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2010-03-11
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Has global outsourcing run its course for your business? See whether the lean production model can help you grow your company
while keeping it home. The recent trend of manufacturing companies in outsourcing their production tasks to other parts of
the world has certainly been effective in reducing produ (...)
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... The potential difficulty in adopting the lean approach lies in the distinct nature of
the lean management model. Some key differentiators ...
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2011-01-26
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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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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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While open innovation is a hot topic, capitalizing on opportunity requires a holistic strategy—not just increased collaboration.
Companies must have repeatable, compliant, and responsive business processes. These processes must be supplemented by a global
information infrastructure that provides a sing (...)
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Sustained Growth and Profitability through Lean Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Source:
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2010-03-11
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Lean manufacturing initiatives and strategies can also be effectively applied toward a business’s largest controllable expense:
its workforce. This paper examines lean manufacturing workforce management initiatives, the opportunities and benefits they
provide, and the enterprise applications available (...)
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Workforce and Expense Management Supports Lean Manufacturing Initiatives: Applying Lean
Manufacturing Initiatives to Workforce and Expense Management. ...
Published:
2012-01-14
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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 management:
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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Published:
2004-12-20
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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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... the management and continuous improvement of business processes, both cross- departmental
and enterprise-wide. How can you empower the transformation to lean ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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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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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...
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2005-09-14
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Optimizing supply chain management processes to work more closely with trading partners, requires enterprises to act together
as interdependent supply networks. The development of service oriented architecture will be crucial in achieving the necessary
flexibility characterizing such networked supply cha (...)
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Optimizing supply chain management processes to work more closely with trading partners, requires enterprises to act together
as interdependent su...
Published:
2005-11-07
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In February, an enterprise application provider Intentia International announced the merger of Intentia's regional organizations
in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific into one joint organization named Global Operations. (...)
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In February, an enterprise application provider Intentia International announced the merger of Intentia's regional organizations
in Europe, the Am...
Published:
2000-03-27
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While lean/flow leverages practices to stay ahead of actual demand, traditional approaches better coordinate secondary, back-office
systems like accounting and HR. Moreover, flow should be a company-wide strategy that impacts more than manufacturing. (...)
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While lean/flow leverages practices to stay ahead of actual demand, traditional approaches better coordinate secondary, back-office
systems like a...
Published:
2004-01-15
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BigMachines differentiates itself in the quote-to-order (Q2O) sphere due to its solutions’ lean end-to-end, inquiry-to-order
focus. Although there are other vendors offering Q2O as a service, BigMachines product is arguably more flexible, as high
tech manufacturers may be noting. (...)
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BigMachines differentiates itself in the quote-to-order (Q2O) sphere due to its solutions’ lean end-to-end, inquiry-to-order
focus. Although there...
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2008-08-22
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... Bill explained “Lean Material Planning and Control Charts” to guide us through the proper
procedure when implementing lean material management. ...
Published:
2009-09-09
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All good lean systems have both physical systems in the plant and near real time information technology backbones that centralize
data. The primary advantage of enterprise systems is that they can handle considerably more information than can be accommodated
manually. (...)
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All good lean systems have both physical systems in the plant and near real time information technology backbones that centralize
data. The primar...
Published:
2006-02-16
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For today’s small to medium manufacturers, increasing the bottom line while optimizing efficiency poses an increasingly difficult
challenge, especially in our current economic crisis. This, coupled with competition in a global environment, puts manufacturers
in a tight spot. Discover the key challenges (...)
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On-demand Manufacturing: A Formula for the Perfect Lean Market, and an Imperative in Today’s Economic Climate.
Source: Technology ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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The competitive nature of the financial services industry today and the changing landscape of the customer approach to investing
puts an onus on suppliers to consider how well they are dealing with customers’ business transactions. In order to provide
better customer service—while at the same time im (...)
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Operations Management in the UK Financial Services. ... Download <strong>Operations
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Published:
2010-03-11
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For today’s small to medium manufacturers, increasing the bottom line while optimizing efficiency poses an increasingly difficult
challenge, especially in our current economic crisis. This, coupled with competition in a global environment, puts manufacturers
in a tight spot. Discover the key challenges (...)
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... landscape. On-demand Manufacturing: A Formula for the Perfect Lean Market, and an Imperative
in Today’s Economic Climate. Source ...
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2010-03-11
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... be the third vendor I’m going to discuss concerning the relevance between its product lifecycle management
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Published:
2010-02-16