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Building a Lean Culture: The Foundation for Lean Six Sigma Excellence

Are your process improvement efforts stalling? You’ve implemented the 5S charts, you hold daily stand-ups, and you’ve mapped out your value streams, but the changes never seem to stick. The momentum fades, and old habits creep back in. If this sounds familiar, the problem isn’t your tools; it’s the foundation they’re built on. So, what is […]

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From Lean to Green: Optimizing Airline Efficiency and Sustainability 

The aviation industry is facing a major conundrum. Demand for air travel is increasing globally, especially in emerging markets with booming middle-class earners. However, airlines face increasing demands to cut emissions and optimize their operations for sustainability. As many countries enact regulations to lower carbon emissions, airlines must find innovative ways to make their operations […]

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The Kaizen Mindset Forever

Kaizen should be a way of life for all things; it is a mindset of small continuous improvements. Let’s use a simple example that many can relate to. Let’s say you own a house, and that house eventually will need to be painted, a new roof, new flooring or perhaps a new kitchen. What most […]

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Impact of Lean Principles On Your Business

Impact of Lean Principles On Your Business

Let’s look at the importance of Lean principles, and how Lean can impact your business. Before we begin let’s review a definition of Lean. Lean or Lean Manufacturing is a method of systematically eliminating waste in an operation, typically a production or manufacturing system. The waste can be through overburden or unevenness in work loads. […]

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Important Steps of Lean Manufacturing Processes

Important Steps of Lean Manufacturing Processes

Lean manufacturing processes help businesses eliminate waste within their own manufacturing systems. This waste (also known as muda) is typically a byproduct of variation and instability within production, i.e. the quality of components used to make a car will vary in their abnormality, depending on your supplier. The higher DPM (defect per million) for the […]

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Importance of Lean Principles – Impact on Your Business

Many global companies use the Six Sigma methodology to streamline their manufacturing and production processes with the aim of achieving greater performance quality. But we believe in going one step further: Lean Six Sigma. This collaborative method can optimize your business in a variety of ways, improving everything from sales to company image, just as […]

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Manufacturer Pricing: Is There a Better Way?

Developing a Concept Can we change the old ways of manufacturer pricing? The impact of Lean manufacturing principles is well established. Manufacturers who follow Lean principles create significant profitability improvements over time, all while meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Can those same Lean principles and practices be applied to pricing and achieve the same type […]

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