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Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing Podcast Archive
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Episode 11: Sunnen Lean Manufacturing Case History
Lean Expert: Karen Broyles
Size: 13.6 MB
Length: 14:48
Air Date: 08/04/2009
Lean can do much more than help you cut costs and operate more efficiently – it can be the key to sustaining a competitive edge in a demanding global marketplace. That’s what one company — Sunnen Products Co., of St. Louis, MO, a global manufacturer of Honing Equipment tooling and supplies – discovered about lean, as you will learn in this informative case history. They also learned how lean transformation broke down communications barriers across the company, helping drive new innovation and workteam productivity.
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Tags: lean manufacturing, machine tools, lean transformation, lean manufacturing workteams
Episode 12: The Look and Feel of Lean
Lean Expert: Richard Rahn
Size: 19.7 MB
Length: 21:29
Air Date: 10/01/2009
Can softer floors and brighter lights really help a company become lean? Lean transformation can also transform the places where we work, helping lift worker morale, productivity and contribution to continuous improvement. Lean expert Richard Rahn of the Leonardo Group explains the major impact changing the “look and feel” of the workplace can have on efforts to become lean.
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Tags: lean manufacturing, lean workstations, lean transformation, kaizen, kaikaku
Episode 13: Three Fundamental Components of Lean
Lean Expert: Bruce Hamilton: President, Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership
Size: 11.2 MB
Length: 12:04
Air Date: 12/02/2009
What does it take to build a lean organization? One of the lean manufacturing community’s most innovative and inspiring experts describes three fundamentals every successful lean organization possesses: Foundations, management and countermeasures. Bruce Hamilton, President of the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP) and Vice Chair of Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence, explains why these three elements are so essential, and what businesses pursuing lean transformation should do to make sure they are in place as they build their lean business.
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Tags: lean manufacturing fundamentals, lean manufacturing management, lean manufacturing countermeasures, lean manufacturing foundations, lean transformation
Episode 14: Designing New Facilities to Be Lean
Lean Expert: Jamie Flinchbaugh
Size: 8.79 MB
Length: 9:34
Air Date: 4/21/2010
Just as its possible to design new processes using lean principles and techniques, it’s also possible – indeed, it’s vital – to use lean to design, build, and launch new production facilities – factories, warehouses, service depots, and other operational locations. Lean expert Jamie Flinchbaugh explains the importance of having a collaborative design process that captures the needs and insights of all user communities – operations, maintenance, material handling, HR, quality, -- using kaizen principles to create a lean plant design; he also makes clear the importance of re-designing the culture and work practices of the workteams, so the entire operation benefits from the lean environment.
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Tags: lean manufacturing fundamentals, lean manufacturing management, lean manufacturing countermeasures, lean manufacturing foundations, lean transformation
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