The Lean Community is small and the information flow fast. At least I thought so in the past. Still true is that the group of real lean thinkers is very small and so it is not surprising that this people are very busy and not omnipresent. In the last three month I spend most of [...]
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Mrz
23
Nov
1
One of our projects in Scottland came in September 2011 to an end. Our Customer Carron Phoenix improved from a defect level of 4% to 0% in 4 month. The service level increased. These results led to further savings along the value stream. The sales companies saved a few hundred thousand Euros on (safety, buffer [...]
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Aug
16
Last time I saw Danaher publishing their Danaher Business System was in their financial report 2002. Since then, the secret of the Danaher Business System (DBS) has been kept in secret (see article) . As Danaher is growing continuously it seems to be more and more difficult to control the communication online. Kollmorgen, a Danaher Company, [...]
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Jul
24
The complexity of supply chains is constantly increasing. the words “supply networks” describe the situation better, nowadays. Most companies in countries like USA, Germany, Switzerland do not even produce more than 50% of the real net output ratio (vertical range of manufacture) anymore. If you buy a Porsche 911 or Boxter you will purchase 20% [...]
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Jun
6
Die Einführung von Lean in den Bereichen Administration,Verkauf, Marketing und Management unterscheidet sich erheblich von der Einführung von Lean Systemen in der Produktion. Die Produktion und das Lager sind gute Bereiche für Einsteiger in die Lean Thematik und erste Verbesserungen in diesem Bereich können mit einem guten Basiswissen über Verschwendung (muda), Takt Time, VSM, 5S, Standard Work, [...]
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Mai
24
Doesn’t matter how you will call it, Lean Admin, Lean Service or Lean SG&A can be a pitfall for experienced lean manufacturing practitioner. Especially engineer minded companies and countries like Germany and Switzerland like to start with “the tools”. But adapting or migrating tools and even key learnings from the shop floor to the administrative [...]
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Apr
4
Five why is a very powerful method. It’s a logical way to find your root cause. But it can do even more. It can take you on a interesting and maybe funny journey. Most of you probably know the typical (boring) five why example like this one: Why did the machine stop? It blew a fuse. [...]
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Feb
7
Are you aware of Danaher? No? Maybe you heard about Beckman Coulter, Matco, Sybron, Hengstler, Aaliant, Accu-Sort, Alltec, Armstrong Tools, Dexis, Dover, Fluke, Gilbarco, Hach Lange, Hydrolab, Instrumentarium Dental, KaVo Dental, Investech, Leica Microsystems, Leica Bio Systems, Portescap, Radiometer, Thomson, Veeder-Root or Videojet Technologies? No? I haven’t heard about them neither before I became the CEO and [...]
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Jan
2
Laut der Studie “Organisation 2015 – Designed to Win” der Boston Consulting Group (BCG) und der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Organisation und Management (SGO) reicht es nicht mehr nur auf die “harten Fakten” wie Strukturen, Prozesse und Steuerungsmechanismen zu achten, sondern die “weichen Faktoren” seien der Schlüssel zum Erfolg. Veränderungsmanagement sei hierbei einer der wichtigsten Kernkompetenzen. [...]
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Dez
14
Wie funktioniert die Interim Management Branche? Wie sich positionieren? Qualität? Klappentext: „Die Masterarbeit ist eine hochspannende Übersicht zur Frage: Wie arbeitet eigentlich ein Interim Manager, damit der Erfolg das Resultat seiner Arbeit ist. Welche Verhaltensnormen, Vorgehens- und Entscheidungsweisen sowie welches Kommunikationsverhalten führt zum vom Auftraggeber gewünschten Resultat? Dietmar Dold dokumentiert eindrücklich die weiterhin fehlende Transparenz [...]
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