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- Take the lean manufacturing online assessment
- Think your manufacturing process is untouchable? Take this free online assessment and let the experts see how your manufacturing process measures up.By Edward G. Enquist, Kenton C. Toomey, and Richard ArtesThe addition of technology or resources to a company, such as capitol equipment, a new employee, a business system, or...
- Technical articles 2000-06-23
- Cefla Group Accelerates Business Processes by Up to 87% With Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning
- Cefla Group, a leading Italian manufacturing group, specializes in four sectors: store fittings and fixtures; finishing systems for wood-based, plastic, and non-ferrous materials; dental equipment; and manufacturing facility engineering and interior design. The company wanted to implement lean thinking principles and information systems that enhance decision making across corporate functions,...
- Case studies
- Implementing Kanban Alternatives in Lean Manufacturing: Enterprise Resource Management
- Manufacturing companies are adopting Lean because of its efficiency - lowering costs and lead-time, while improving quality and performance. In today's highly competitive and challenging markets, companies need every available advantage. Many people equate Lean manufacturing with the use of kanbans: physical or visual signals that trigger replenishment. While kanban...
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Achieve the Best of Two Worlds With Behavior-Driven Development
- Much of agile software development methodology is grounded in the lean manufacturing principles developed and perfected by the Toyota Motor Company, and translated to software production by a number of software luminaries in the 90's. Toyota understood that eliminating waste was essential to achieving its goals, and it understood that...
- White papers 2008-08-01
- WS Packaging Group Selects and Implements Radius Solutions' PECAS Vision ERP/MIS
- WS Packaging Group is an industry leader with more than forty years of experience in printing and flexible packaging for retail, commercial and industrial markets. There was a need to move to a single integrated business platform so the company could standardize business operations across facilities, embrace lean manufacturing practices,...
- Case studies 2008-03-13
- Lean Manufacturing - Click-Through Demo 1 (Windows)
- This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: A lean manufacturing process design solution can help organizations reduce lean manufacturing implementation costs, improve collaboration surrounding lean manufacturing implementation, and...
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Automotive Parts Supplier Gears for Growth With Lean Manufacturing
- Haldex develops and manufactures specialized automotive parts for commercial and consumer vehicles. As the effects of globalization intensified in the late 1990s, Haldex needed to cut costs to compete with companies abroad and to improve responsiveness to match domestic competitors. To meet these challenges and to keep up with rapidly...
- Case studies
- Ensuring Lean Manufacturing at Shanghai General Motors
- Shanghai General Motors Company Shanghai GM made the right decision when it called on SAP Custom Development services to help it adapt its SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization SAP APO solution, which is a component of SAP's supply chain management SCM system. Download this case study to read about...
- Case studies 2005-05-01
- Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise
- This SAP white paper reviews the history of lean manufacturing best practices and explains why a more pragmatic approach to lean manufacturing is now in order. Find out how market forces such as demand variability and supplier fragmentation are affecting manufacturers and what they must do to extend lean- and...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Lean Manufacturing and RFID Implementation - Are They Connected?
- There is a new complexity in conducting business these days. The global customers mandate that comprehensive systems have to be in place. High on this list is a push to implement RFID technologies. All the while plants are being squeezed on pricing, production lead times, and competitive pressures. Can one...
- White papers 2005-06-20
- Momentum Webcast: Lean Manufacturing for High Tech Manufacturers (Level 100)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn key lean manufacturing techniques that can significantly improve business and profitability. Traditional lean tools have already penetrated many companies in the industry. This webcast highlights ways to extend this success beyond the four walls and drive transformational improvement throughout the supply chain. It...
- Webcasts 2005-11-01
- Getting More From Your Application Portfolio - Part II
- Lean Manufacturing techniques have been used successfully by manufacturing organizations to improve quality and productivity. Applying the principles of lean manufacturing to application maintenance can provide similar benefits to one's organization. There is a need to see if the actual work of bug-fixing or making an enhancement is done in...
- White papers 2007-10-16
- Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
- The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied...
- White papers 2007-04-20
- Aerospace Manufacturer Reduces Inventory Costs by 30 to 40 Percent with Lean Solution
- Kreisler Industrial supplies the aerospace industry with specialized tubing, primarily for jet engines. The company works with exotic alloys and expensive special materials, requiring complete traceability of all parts and supplies. Using a lean manufacturing process to reduce the cost of raw materials, the company faced challenges because accounting and...
- Case studies 2009-02-27
Additional Resources
- Explore the history, principles, and practice of lean software development
- Project managers, senior developers, and architects in enterprise IT and software companies can all benefit from the heightened efficiency that results from applying the principles of lean software development. But in order to effectively implement lean software development, a basic understanding of the subject's history is key. Explore the compelling...
- Book chapters 2006-09-20
- Lean Communications - Enabling manufacturing processes through visual technologies
- In every organization there are wasteful activities, both in operations and in communications. Seldom, however, are these activities conveniently labeled as wasteful, nor do these activities standout and beg for improvement. In fact, many of these activities masquerade as critical functions, consuming valuable resources with little return value. It wasn't...
- White papers 2009-06-17
- 10 Key Ways "Going Paperless" With a Manufacturing Execution System
- As a manufacturer, one knows that effectively managing production operations in today's demanding business environment is a difficult task. Market pressures require maximum flexibility to produce value in the eyes of the customer. Financial pressures require continual process improvement to achieve "Lean" manufacturing. Whether one's production is driven from discrete...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Webcast: The Four Pillars of Manufacturing Effectiveness
- Bill Canis, VP of the Manufacturing Institute, leads this Webcast covering topics such as lean manufacturing, using available resources, workforce development and competing internationally. View this Webcast to learn how: Manufacturers seek partners at every stage of the global supply chain - from research...
- Webcasts 2008-10-15
- The Dirty Little Secrets of Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Manufacturing Execution Systems MES and lean manufacturing have become popular topics in recent years. Today there are a variety of offerings on the market - and understanding how they differ is a challenge. While many of these applications can help one achieve efficiencies on the shop floor, they may also...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Epicor Software Case Study: GEMCITY Engineering and Manufacturing
- Since 1936, GEMCITY Engineering and Manufacturing has been designing and creating specialized equipment to a number of industries. As a growing, global manufacturer creating products ranging from robotic assemblies such as explosive ordinance disposal units to fuel cell components and semiconductors, GEM realizes the need to leverage new technology to...
- Case studies 2008-12-04
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