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#1 Woman in the history of Process Improvement and Operational Excellence
The female equivalent of ‘W. Edwards Deming’ or Joseph Juran, Lillian Gilbreth understood the principles of Lean and Six Sigma 60 years before those names even existed for process improvement. Together with her husband, Frank, the couple placed high value on efficiency when managing an organization. Their management theory outlined three main points: 1. …
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British Shipyards did not learn the process improvement techniques of Shigeo Shingo.
Apart from Shigeo Shingo’s obvious success with the Toyota Production System, one other notable achievement was creating a production system in ship building at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding in Japan from 1950 to 1953 that reduced ship production time by 50%. Why did British Shipyards not follow these same techniques for improvement ? As a result the …
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Health Care IT using Six Sigma as basis for improvement….not software
Orlando, Florida : Health IT Conference, Feb 19 – Feb 23, 2017 “You have to take a hard honest look at what you are doing today. Six Sigma is good at that,” said Chuck Spurr the CIO at Shields Health Care Group, speaking on the opening day ofthe Health IT Conference in Orlando, Florida http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/secret-shields-success-six-sigma …
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Respect for the Human Worker in the new Lean world of Robotic Process Automation ( RPA )
The new technology of ‘Robotic Process Automation’ ( RPA ) has the potential for huge cost savings for companies however NOT by replacing workers with computers or robots. Instead RPA allows repetitive or logic based process decisions to be done by computer programs ( Robots) rather than humans and thus eliminating the following wastes: 1. …
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Toyota continues tradition of a ‘No-Layoff’ policy for its full-time workers. Respect for Workers.
Top 5 reasons why the Toyota management model ( also called ‘The Toyota Way’ ) is so good @lean6st Toyota enjoys a market value that’s twice the combined market value of its next five competitors—with only one-sixth as many employees Toyota as never laid off any full-time salaried employees due to economic downturns in its …
Lean and Six Sigma Competencies as defined by ISO-18404
Lean and Six Sigma competencies There are three levels of competency for Lean and Six Sigma described in the ISO-18404 standard: Lean Practitioner, Leader, and Expert; and Six Sigma Green, Black, and Master Black Belt. “Lean & Six Sigma” is simply a combination of the competencies of the equivalent Lean and Six Sigma levels, and follows the …
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National Health Service NHS needs Lean Six Sigma
Watching the Andrew Marr show on BBC TV this morning and Sir Robert Naylor a leading figure in the NHS said something that agrees with the principles of Lean Six Sigma …. he said that is not all about throwing more money at the problems … or just focusing on reducing costs … it is …
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