We’ve been getting some good press recently for some work we’ve been doing with a well know foods company. This project implemented a real-time Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) dashboard so they could collect and report on Key Process Indicators...
Recently Larry Coburn, the Sr. VP of Operations at Crown Audio, gave a presentation at the Aberdeen Manufacturing Excellence Summit. We recorded his talk, and you can watch it online. I really enjoyed Larry’s talk because he doesn’t pull any punches. He...
In my last post I described an interesting conversation with a customer about his company’s pilot deployment of GainSeeker Suite. You may recall that because of staff turnover, this plant was collecting data but not doing anything with it. The company was...
Not long ago I had an interesting conversation with a customer, a corporate quality systems guy from a multi-plant corporation. We had installed GainSeeker as a pilot project at one of his plants, and he and I met to plan deployment to another division. Unfortunately...
Recently a colleague forwarded this email from a friend of his and asked me for my comments: Please let me know what lean/6sigma book you would recommend. I’ve read a couple over the years but they are a bit dull and won’t fire up our management – is...
