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Publisher’s Note: Lean is Green
When you look at your business through a lean lens and as you plan policy deployment and go-forward plans, keep “reduce, reuse and recycle” in mind. Make it a part of your organizational culture. Doing so will provide a dual benefit—you will save money and you will be doing your part to help the environment.
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Case Study: Siemens Transmission and Distribution
As customers have demanded ever shorter lead times and ever lower prices, Siemens—like other industries—has been required to adopt lean manufacturing processes in order to fine-tune its production. At the end of 2004, the company’s management decided to launch a program of continuous improvement to satisfy the growing demands of its clients. By using lean, the company is seeking to continue its progress by eliminating nonvalue-added work wherever possible and continuing steadily to improve processes and the organization as a whole.
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Accelerated Learning: Designing and Developing a Training Program
More than 100 different Instructional System Design models exist, but almost all are based on the generic “ADDIE” model of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Each of the five steps in the model has an outcome that feeds the subsequent step. But even with this model, a vital part of developing a training program—laying the groundwork—is communicating the reasons and benefits of the training before the student even enters the classroom.
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Strategic Visioning: LeanSigma Culture - Leadership's Role
A cultural transformation is not a revolution brought about by a discontented mass of employees, but a revolution stirred by the company’s leaders. While the most important job you have as a leader in your organization is to develop people, creating and sustaining a compelling value proposition for your customers and having high-performing people around you are the ingredients for success. In transforming your business into a LeanSigma® enterprise, you should be taking twelve actions to create a real and lasting cultural transformation.
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Futures: So You Want to be Green? Go Lean.
Being a good corporate citizen or doing the right thing is part of Toyota’s mission. It’s also good business. Doing the right thing also means doing what’s responsible to the environment and the people in it. Lean principles can provide a positive contribution to a less wasteful and a more responsible future.
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Tech Talk: How Much Day One Training Have You Mastered
“Do I really need to sit through Day 1 training again?” How often have you heard this question or some variation of it? Associates, supervisors, and even KPO managers have probably wondered if it makes sense to skip the training, especially for repeat participants. So just how important is Day 1 training?
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Field Notes: Calculating Takt Time in the Process Industry
Not all of the lean tools used in discrete manufacturing translate easily to the process industry. This is especially true with regard to the takt time/cycle time (TT/CT) chart. To improve labor productivity in the process industry, we should calculate what I would call “available time vs. cycle time” (AT/CT).
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