Events Exercises Factories 
The Lean Thinker
AUGUST 31, 2022
Kaizen Events. Kaizen events (or whatever we want to call the traditional week-long activity): Can be a useful tool when used in the context of an overall plan. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not. If there is interest, I’ll put something together.
The Lean Thinker
MARCH 5, 2021
to Rick from the factory where I had spent a week working with Mr. Shimura of Shingijutsu and Reiko, his interpreter. I knew that Rick would be wrapping up a class teaching the basics of kaizen events to a group of suppliers and if I were lucky, he would see the pager message and use it as a reinforcement to the participants.
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The Lean Thinker
JULY 2, 2024
With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. .” Most of these were small-scale tactical affairs.
Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. Procurement ran a request for proposal event. We’d rather not do that.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Exercise trackers like Fitbit or Garmin are part of an IoT network that collects and analyzes data from objects – people. Used with a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) system, manufacturers can digitize the factory to gain insights that will allow processes and workloads to be optimized. Supply chain. Quality control.
AIMMS
JULY 23, 2019
The company operates 7 sugar cane processing factories in Brazil, in a cluster located in the northwest region of Sao Paulo state. Planning cycles in this environment tend to be slow and often, when you reach a compromise on the plan, unexpected events force you to go back to the drawing board.
Blog on Log
MAY 2, 2006
A post-9/11 simulation exercise forecast that closing the nation's ports for 12 days would cost the economy roughly $58bn. corporations, shipping companies, and domestic ports, but at factories and facilities at international origins as well. If supply were disrupted at just one major port, what economic problems would a U.S.-wide
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