FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Lean Six Sigma practices can improve the dispatch time of medical reports sent from a hospital to a primary care provider, according to research published online Feb. 8 in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Yara L. Basta, M.D., from the Academic […]

CHANDIGARH: With an objective to develop expertise on lean manufacturing in industries, CII organised a workshop on lean manufacturing practices here on Friday at Chandigarh. Lean manufacturing is a systematic approach for identifying and eliminating waste in operations through continuous improvement for doing everything more efficiently, optimizing the cost of […]

Mike Wilson, global head of logistics at Panalpina and MBA graduate from Cardiff University in 1993, now finds himself working with his alma mater on a research project to forecast the demand of a company’s products and plan its inventory accordingly. With this partnership, Panalpina said it has become the […]

During the mid-20th century, Toyota® was just beginning to enter the automobile market. During that time Ford® ruled the market with its assembly line process. Fast forward 60 years – today Toyota is the most profitable automobile manufacturer, with 4 times earnings per car compared to any of the big […]

It is one of the many 800-lb gorillas that always finds a way to be in the way. Accounting for it has become the norm in scheduling any type of work, be that punching up a spreadsheet, pushing a broom or turning a wrench. It is the wasteful product of […]

Northern Ireland’s second-largest city, Derry, is hosting this year’s Manufacturing Excellence Roundtable event on the 15th and 16th of March at the City Hotel. The event is a gathering of European manufacturing companies, and is set to host large global businesses such as Danone, Beam, Diageo, Weetabix, Heinz, and Akzo […]

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Leading Six Sigma training provider 6Sigma.us continues their busy 2016 training schedule with a program in Raleigh, North Carolina beginning February 16, 2016. Peter Peterka, Founder and CEO of Global Six Sigma LP, said, “We offer these dynamic and challenging training and certifications […]

SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI (PRWEB) JANUARY 22, 2016 Lean Business Intelligence (BI) was developed and launched in The eFactory by Marty Preuss. Marty combines his extensive operations background and process improvement experience with modern business intelligence tools to help manufacturers reach full potential results. With past certifications from APICS, ASQ and a […]

Press release submitted by Quad Cities Chamber (Quad Cities) – Quad Cities area manufacturers will learn best practices in implementing lean manufacturing principals during a workshop called Go Lean to Compete on Wednesday, January 20 being held from 10:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the John Deere Davenport Works facility, […]

While non-high-tech manufacturing production is expected to increase in 2016, there are many challenges facing the manufacturing industry. To stay competitive, manufacturers are investing in logistics efficiency such as maximizing factory floor space and time. Apex International wants to face these challenges head on. Growing at a rate of 30 […]