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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

That actually isn’t a bad analogy as I was advocating a pretty dramatic shift in the role of the kaizen workshop leaders. This was written four years before I first encountered Toyota Kata , and reflected my experience as a lean director operating within a $2billion slice of a global manufacturing company. Kaizen tools included.

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MTS Logistics: An Example of Great Customer Service in Shipping

MTS Logistics

Supply chain and logistics operations have become central to differentiated customer experience strategies. When required, our personalized service program can include the adaptation of our standard operating procedure to clients’ internal, proprietary systems.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

The obvious way to improve RONA is to improve operations and optimize processes to create maximum customer value for any given level of capital investment. To become a world-class company requires an understanding how how world-class companies operate. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example.

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How to Operate Your Distribution Truck Fleet at Less Cost

Logistics Bureau

If your company operates a distribution fleet, you’ll know that the costs of running trucks for customer deliveries are continually increasing. But do you know how to operate your fleet for the maximum economy? Do you have any specialised vehicles , and could they be removed by changing how you operate?

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

The ability to operate in emerging domains such as ‘space’ and ‘cyber’, act in the ‘grey zone’, or investments in new technologies from hypersonic weaponry to automation and AI are seen as offsets to potential adversaries. South Australian workshop. The containers were designed and produced in BAE Systems?

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Successful Change Management in Logistics Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

We transform entire work processes, which is why we need a working change management system for the customer in every phase – design, build, and operate – and that we help to develop right from the start.” Another example of successful change communication is an innovative omni-channel logistics center in Switzerland.

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9 Apps in 2 Days: Business App Development Acceleration

AIMMS

Christian and his team were in our offices taking part in a new 2 day “hackathon” workshop that involved collaborative app development with AIMMS, Höegh and Ab Ovo, an AIMMS IT implementation partner. One of our largest customers, for example, is Nissan. Tell me a little about the AIMMS Two Day Workshop. How did it go?

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