U.S. Army Materiel Command Success Stories
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This page on the U.S. Army's Materiel Command's web site lists at least two dozen success stories in applying lean and six sigma concepts.(Stories vary greatly in the amount of detail provided.)
Canada Post Puts Its Stamp on a Lean Transformation
Author: Chet Marchwinski
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Media Format: Value-Stream Maps, Images, Articles
Publish Date: 8/9/2005
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A growing lean transformation at Canada Post's Calgary plant shows how lean principles can be implemented in environments other than manufacturing.
Lean Inroads Into Alabama Academia
Author: GeorgeTaninecz
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Publish Date: 3/30/2007
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Despite business’s declared need for graduates experienced with lean concepts, most colleges and universities offer only a lean module or course here and there. But at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, faculty of the Industrial Systems and Engineering and Engineering Management department understand that their graduates should have knowledge of and experience with these concepts when they enter the marketplace, and they’re making sure that happens. (A Lean Enterprise Institute Case Study.)
Lean Thinking Therapy Spreads Beyond the Shop
Author: Chet Marchwinski
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Media Format: Value-Stream Maps, Charts, graphs, and diagrams, Articles
Publish Date: 2/5/2004
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Medtronic Xomed expanded the lean transformation beyond the shop floor to areas such as international distribution, product development, and domestic shipping. Along the way, company leadership also reorganized the operational structure by value-streams.
The Backbone of Lean in the Back Shops
Author: Chet Marchwinski
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Media Format: Charts, graphs, and diagrams, Images, Articles
Publish Date: 5/19/2004
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Learn why the lean concept of every part, every interval (EPEI) is the “backbone” of lean in this aerospace machine shop by leveling the mix in demand to create flow through a cell.
A Journey to Value Streams: Reorganizing Into Five Groups Drives Lean Improvements and Customer Responsiveness
Author: Tonya Vinas
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Media Format: Charts, graphs, and diagrams, Articles
Publish Date: 2/28/2008
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While many plants have used value-stream thinking and practices such as current- and future-state mapping, Parker Hannifin Corporation's New Haven, IN, plant has created a value-stream culture centered on autonomy, entrepreneurialism, and lean principles. The change started after months of lengthy discussions among functional leaders, who ultimately determined the best way to remain competitive was to relinquish much of their control to value-stream teams. Along the way, the plant had to overcom
Build Your “House” of Production on a Stable Foundation
Author: Chet Marchwinski
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Media Format: Charts, graphs, and diagrams, Images, Articles
Publish Date: 2/14/2006
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Faced with downtime on key pieces of sophisticated equipment in a machine-intensive environment, Delphi's Plant 1 launched a successful improvement effort by focusing on rigorous problem solving to create basic stability. This Lean Enterprise Institute case study shows you what plant management, staff and employees did.
Columbus Public Schools Use Process Thinking to Improve Academic Achievement.
Author: George Taninecz
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Publish Date: 4/4/2006
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Principals and staff at Columbus, Ohio, schools created current states and future states of a diagnostic testing process in order to identify students' weaknesses and to improve the processes of setting up, administering, and analyzing the tests.