+25% Output, -50% Losses, at 44% Absenteeism: Despite the global pandemic and mandatory lockdown, the French operations team harnessed scarce resources and delivered breakthrough results. Applying out-of-the-box thinking, while exploiting newly developed Lean capabilities increased output by … [Read more...] about Covid-19 Lean Thinking, Radically Changes Way of Working
Over 30 managers joined the summit in Copenhagen to systematically improve performance and sustainability of Trioplast's production of industrial, hygiene, stretch film, and carrier bags. During four breakout sessions, focus teams identified failure modes of known issues and key levers to raise … [Read more...] about World Class Manufacturing Summit: Cut Plastic Waste
Factory Maturity Assessment (FMA) for a major Korean Automotive supplier to baseline the current state and develop the transformation roadmap to become a Digital Factory end-to-end. The onsite assessment “Fresh Eyes Review” served a dual purpose: benchmarking the operation, while laying … [Read more...] about The Digital Factory: Drafting Roadmap for Korean Plant
Designing a better factory: automotive suppliers producing commodity products need to win on cost and scale, find new niches, and go beyond the automotive core. And those in highly differentiated segments need to lead performance innovation and find a new path into the future (Deloitte). … [Read more...] about Future Factory Workshop for Automotive Japan
Visual management refers to the placement of tools, parts, processes, indicators in view, so the status of the system can be understood at a glance. Visual management devices relay information through signals (cards, marks, lights, bins) instead of reports. Visual management is often faster, … [Read more...] about Visual Management: Efficiency from Transparency
Defining next steps on its Lean Journey the team in Utah benchmarks its operation against world-class references, assessing maturity level and identifying next improvement opportunities. The program is part of the "Fresh Eyes Review" initiative for the world's leading Automotive Safety … [Read more...] about Operations Diagnostics for Automotive Safety
To take effective actions, we need effective metrics so we can recognize successes to learn from and issues to quickly correct before growing into major problems. In reverse this means that, without capable metrics, we can’t manage or improve anything. "Measurement is the first step that leads … [Read more...] about The 3 Golden Metrics for Performance Management
A growing stack of "things" is waiting for many of us when returning back to the office after the holidays, pending work to be processed. A big pile, despite of all efforts to clean up and complete all pending tasks by year’s end. Starting the new year with high ambitions and a high backlog is … [Read more...] about Strategy Deployment Roadmap to Plan Your Destiny