by info@thewebshop.net.au | May 28, 2015 | Kaizen, Lean, Productivity, Results, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Uncategorized
This week we decided we should have a look at another case study. In this case a European Cell Phone Manufacturer/Assembler with manufacturing plants in China. This Cell Phone manufacturer assembled cell phones for one of a leading global cell phone brands. In this...
by info@thewebshop.net.au | May 13, 2015 | Business Improvement, Cost Reduction, Kaizen, Lean, Productivity, Results, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Uncategorized
We are often asked, how quickly can we achieve some improvements? In this day and age everyone wants to make improvements straight away. It’s understandable to want to get results right away however you need to remember that a process has not suddenly started...
by info@thewebshop.net.au | May 1, 2015 | Business Improvement, Kaizen, Lean, Pipeline, Productivity, Results, Risk, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Training
When working on Business Improvement Deployments with larger clients we are almost always asked “Should our Business Improvement team have a centralised or a decentralised structure?” The answer is “it depends”. First lets take a look at what we mean by the two...
by info@thewebshop.net.au | Apr 21, 2015 | Business Improvement, Cost Reduction, Productivity, Theory of Constraints, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Training, Uncategorized
We’ve been involved in many improvement projects which generally can be categorised into the following objectives: Increasing throughput Reducing cycle times Increasing productivity (doing more with less) Increasing availability (outside of this article)...
by info@thewebshop.net.au | Apr 15, 2015 | Productivity, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Uncategorized
An underground mining operation had been struggling with their Six Sigma program. The program had been underway for about 12 months and for various reasons had struggled to gain traction. 12 projects had been selected and were progressing at various paces. In mining,...
by info@thewebshop.net.au | Apr 7, 2015 | Business Improvement, Cost Reduction, Kaizen, Lean, Productivity, Results, Theory of Constraints, Theory of Constraints, Uncategorized
We are often asked how to get started with making improvements. We have all been in the situation where we are not getting the results needed and we need to be seen to be do something let alone actually getting improved results? We will talk about what our experience...
