Did you know that 50% of all edible food that becomes waste does so during manufacturing, distribution, and retail? That screams improvement opportunities. Here's the good news: there are straightforward steps you can take to eliminate waste during the production process. This will not only boost your bottom line, but it also helps create a more...
In this modern era, some of us are fortunate enough to have a process that allows cheap, instantaneous, non-destructive inspection of 100% of what we make. For everyone else, capability analysis is extremely useful. Consider wine making as an example: measurements are more difficult. As soon as you add hydrogen peroxide to a sample of wine to start...
In our switched-on world, power outages can be extremely inconvenient for individuals. But for businesses, even very brief interruptions can cause catastrophic losses.
Did you know that 50% of all edible food that becomes waste does so during manufacturing, distribution, and retail? That screams improvement opportunities. Here's the good news: there are straightforward steps you can take to eliminate waste during the production process. This will not only boost your bottom line, but it also helps create a more...
In this modern era, some of us are fortunate enough to have a process that allows cheap, instantaneous, non-destructive inspection of 100% of what we make. For everyone else, capability analysis is extremely useful. Consider wine making as an example: measurements are more difficult. As soon as you add hydrogen peroxide to a sample of wine to start...
In our switched-on world, power outages can be extremely inconvenient for individuals. But for businesses, even very brief interruptions can cause catastrophic losses.
Every organization can benefit from continuous improvement. While Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen (and more), are commonly used in the vernacular of a continuous improvement professional, they are disciplines for all of us to apply to our daily professional lives to create efficiency and drive value.
You're probably wondering what "statistics anxiety" is and what it has to do with you. If you don't think using statistics is part of your job, you'll think and question how it can be holding back your career. Even if you use some statistical analysis regularly, you still may be impacted by "statistics anxiety."
Although they often travel in the same circles, continuous improvement and quality are not the same. While continuous improvement and quality are related, they have different objectives. Let's dive in and discuss those differences with respect to manufacturing, and the tools that are used to achieve both.
long-term hospital stays. But problems with Home Care's billing process resulted in increased time to bill and unnecessary write-offs. So a Lean Six Sigma project team trained by the hospital's Mark A. Watson Center for Operational Excellence (COE) set out to address the problems and optimize the billing process. They identified causes of billing...
It's the Golden Age of data. It's in the news, it's in the decisions that businesses make, and it's even in the way we navigate our daily lives. With the increasing amount of data being generated and collected, it has become increasingly important to understand what data is and how to use it. This is where data literacy comes in....
Delivery lead time is a crucial supply chain management parameter. It's critical for businesses to understand how long it takes a product to go through the pipeline from the original order to delivery, whether they are purchasing, selling, or moving goods and materials internally.