Changing to Lean, Part 4
What’s an extremely difficult part of lean? Sustained improvement. Kaizen is best known and most often described as continual, incremental improvement. Kaikaku is perhaps best described as revolutionary improvement.
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Named as Supplier for David H. Murdock Research Institute
(Carl Zeiss MicroImaging: Thornwood, NY) --The David H.
Latest Vision Market Trends and Forecasts
(Automated Imaging Association: Ann Arbor, Michigan) -- A new machine vision market study reports that machine vision and automated imaging
The GD&T Encoding Process—Final Steps
Encoding the mating flange:
Indian Statistical Institute’s Six Sigma Case Study Winner
(Sutherland Global Services: Rochester, New York) -- Sutherland Global Services, a multinational business process outsourcing (BPO) provider,
LAI Reduces Cycle Time by 25 Percent
(LAI International Inc.: Scottsdale, Arizona) -- A lean manufacturing initiative conducted by LAI International Inc., a supplier of precision compone
Six Sigma Busy Work
Manufacturing firms intent on capturing and distilling rich streams of data will find them. Companies will often look at a capability maturity model (CMM) in rows and columns—a format common across many industries and many applications—in Excel.