What Happens When You Ask Why with a Lean Eye?
A Major US Metal Manufacturer asked us to conduct kaizen style event to help improve throughput and increase capacity while achieving cost reductions.
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Case Studies
Reducing Product Costs
Our client needed to find 25% more capacity in order to absorb incoming production lines into an already capacity and space strained environment. Working with the client team, here’s an overview of how we helped make it happen.
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10 Steps to Foster Innovation and Drive Growth
Innovate or die is a favored phrase among forward thinkers, and though perhaps hackneyed, the notion is exactly in line with the needs of retail today.
As James Vatalaro, a business consultant with Productivity Inc., which practices improving on its namesake for companies in need, noted in his presentation on strategy innovation at the...
Managing Complexity at a Major Insurance Broker
This affinity insurance broker manages policies for 100+ global brands, with millions of new insurance contracts annually covering policyholders in 10+ countries. Its banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, and retail clients offer their...
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Blower Failure Case Study – Root Cause Machine Failure Analysis
The goal of Maintenance Improvement is to move away from reactive to a proactive or planned maintenance process. As part of this process, maintenance personnel analyze breakdowns to reveal equipment weaknesses and then modify equipment to improve its operation, maintainability and lengthen equipment life. Root Cause Machine Failure Analysis was introduced to this building products manufacturer’s maintenance reliability team as a method to eliminate a repetitive blower failure.
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Everything in Pork Pie Order
Pork pie and sausage roll maker Pork Farms Bowyers has invested significant resource and time into creating its own tailored shopfloor organization program. Steed Webzell reports.
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Improving the Supply Storage and Replenishment System
For: Hospital Nursing Unit Situational Challenge Increases in supply costs had raised awareness of how hospital supplies are distributed, inventoried, […]
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“Flowing” Case Carts to the Operating Room
For: 1,100 Bed Metropolitan Hospital with 50+ Operating Rooms Situational Challenge Ensuring that all supplies and instruments reach the Operating […]
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Claims Reimbursement Improvement Using Waste Reduction and Standard Work
For: 400-Bed Hospital Situational Challenge A cumbersome claims process with excessive delays in receivables was creating poor cash flow for […]
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Emergency Department (ED) Diverts Reduced Using Data Mining and Standard Work
For: 500-Bed Metropolitan Hospital Situational Challenge A backlog in the ER was causing high emergency divert rates for this metro […]
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