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 20, 2015 | Kaizen, Lean, Productivity, Results, Throughput, Training, Uncategorized
Process Analysis is one of the key areas to making significant improvements in any process. Process Analysis can take various different forms however we’ll start at the beginning. When ever we start a Business Improvement Project there is always a process involved....
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 6, 2015 | Business Improvement, Cost Reduction, Productivity, Results, Six Sigma, Training, Uncategorized
Businesses collect data. If your business is like most businesses you have a lot of data, and only a small proportion of the data is used in a meaningful way. However it is not uncommon to find that the data required for a Business Improvement Project does not exist....
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)...
