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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Lean Articles
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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Introduction To Hoshin Kanri
Hoshin means—Compass/Vision, Kanri means Management. Therefore, Hoshin Kanri can be translated into Policy Deployment, Vision Management, or Strategy Deployment.
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OEE—Learn How To Use It Right
As with any metric, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)—the powerful core metric used in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)—can be misunderstood and misused. In fact, we see it grossly misused at times.
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Servant Leadership In A Lean Organization
What does it mean to be a servant leader, and how does it apply to lean leadership? We explored some background on the term and spoke with two lean leaders who shared their take on the concept, behaviors, and benefits of servant leadership…
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Think Outside the Production Box!
Take a holistic approach to improvement and apply lean techniques across your system-wide value chain—it’s where most of the opportunity is hiding.
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Sherwin-Williams makes IndustryWeek’s Best List
Congratulations to Sherwin-Williams, a Productivity Inc. client, on earning the 10th spot on this year’s IndustryWeek 50 Best Manufacturers list.
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Congratulations to Johnson Controls Power Solutions!
We would like to congratulate Productivity Inc. client Johnson Controls Power Solutions, Saint Joseph Distribution Center in Saint Joseph, Missouri on being named an Industry Week Best Plant finalist for 2018.
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Live at The Ohio State University’s Lean Summit!
This week we are participating in The Ohio State University’s Lean Summit – Leading Through Excellence.
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Announcing Our New Brand Identity
Our mission is to "Keep your Enterprise in Motion": helping you stay on the move – improving, reinventing and innovating …
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