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Publisher’s Note: Succeeding in a Demand Economy
By Anand Sharma, President and CEO, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
Manufacturers who succeed in a demand economy must be able to respond to the highly enabled customers of the 21st century. Leaning your business to improve responsiveness to ever-changing customer needs is the only way to embrace and capture this web-savvy, highly educated, want-it-now, in-control market.
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Case Study: Sappi Warren
By Doug Bonner, Senior Management Consultant, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
By using a LeanSigma approach, Sappi Warren’s release paper mill in Westbrook, ME, has doubled its value-added time while cutting the total process time in half. Lean improvements have allowed the company to take business back from its domestic competition. As the Westbrook mill adds up continuous improvement successes, the lean initiative is evolving out of the manufacturing floor and spreading across the enterprise.
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Accelerated Learning: How do Adults Learn?
By Joe Panebianco, TBM Senior Trainer and Design Specialist, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
How we learn as adults is different from how we learn as children. As we mature into adulthood, we prefer self-directed learning opportunities. The role of the instructor is not to strictly lecture the class but also to become a guide and a resource for the students and engage the students in the process of inquiry, analysis, and decision-making.
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Strategic Visioning: LeanSigma Culture – A Strategic Weapon for Business Survival
By Gary Hourselt, Executive Vice President and CFO, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
Eleven key attributes of an organization’s culture determine how much improvement will be made and successfully sustained over time and whether the LeanSigma or continuous-improvement effort will be a short-term project or a true and lasting transformation.
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Futures: A Lean Value Chain – The Key to Your Success
By Anand Sharma, President and CEO, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
A lean value chain is a business enterprise system that synchronizes the resources and information flow across all components of the value chain to achieve mutual growth in sales and profitability. When thinking about strategies for remaining competitive in an increasingly complex manufacturing world, look all around you at every element of your value chain.
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Tech Talk: Resource Conservation – Save Green by Going Green
By Nero Haralalka, Senior Management Consultant, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
Any time you have a large operation that requires large amounts of materials and uses processes that have been handled in a traditional way over long periods of time, it can really pay to look at those processes and see where it’s possible to reduce, reuse, and recycle. By doing this, you not only save your company’s financial resources, but you also help to reduce your company’s impact on the environment.
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Field Notes: Mensor takes Sustainment to the Next Level
By Jerry Curry, Senior Management Consultant, TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
Mensor, which designs and manufactures high-accuracy pressure measuring and controlling instruments and test systems, takes sustainment to an impressive level, and a reprise of using a card system for process-industry-setup standard work.
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