by info@thewebshop.net.au | Apr 28, 2015 | Business Improvement, Cost Reduction, Learning, Productivity, Results, Risk, Six Sigma, Training, Uncategorized
Business runs on data. In fact most companies have too much data. They collect a lot of data that’s not needed, and the data that is used contains errors. This data is usually used to calculate averages and long term trends i.e: average output of a shift, average...
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...
by info@thewebshop.net.au | Feb 17, 2015 | Business Improvement, Lean, Pipeline, Productivity, Results, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints
We were asked the following question by a client recently: “What are the key elements we need to consider in starting a Business Improvement Program” There is a ‘recipe’ that we use to guide any new Business Improvement initiative or when we are starting out with any...
by info@thewebshop.net.au | Jan 29, 2015 | Productivity, Results, Theory of Constraints, Uncategorized
In the last blog post we discussed the Goal Tree. The Goal tree has become one of the critical tools that we use to help make rapid improvements. The Goal tree is not traditionally in the Six Sigma Body of Knowledge but has been part of the Theory of Constraints...
