1.0 Introduction Lean manufacturing is the systematic elimination of waste from all aspects of an organization’s operations‚ where waste is viewed as any use or loss of resources that does not lead directly to creating the product or service a customer wants when they want it. In many industrial processes‚ such non-value added activity can comprise more than 90 percent of a factory’s total activity Lean manufacturing or lean production are reasonably new terms that can be traced to Jim Womack‚ Daniel
Premium Lean manufacturing
Lean Accounting Summary As companies grow‚ they continuously look for ways to save on costs‚ be more productive‚ and overall be more efficient. Many companies are starting to implement lean accounting. The traditional accounting method focuses mainly on reducing costs and creating increased shareholder value‚ whereas lean accounting is mainly focused on increasing capacity‚ creating more customer value‚ and reducing the amount of waste. Successfully changing the accounting system within a company
Premium Lean manufacturing Value stream mapping Finance
KEEPING SUZANNE CHALMERS I. INTRODUCTION CASE DESCRIPTION Suzanne Chalmers‚ one of API’s top software engineers‚ asked Thomas Chan‚ the vice-president of software engineering at Advanced Photonics‚ Inc. (API)‚ for a private meeting. Thomas Chan has seen this before‚ when good and valued employees asked for private meetings with him‚ to end by announcing that they wanted to quit. Reasons for leaving the company were anything from long hours‚ stressful deadlines‚ time needed to decompress
Premium Maslow's hierarchy of needs Motivation Software engineering
If situated during the Red Scare‚ Abigail Williams‚ Reverend Parris‚ and Rebecca Nurse would still possess the same ruthless‚ power-hungry‚ and intelligent attributes that were demonstrated in The Crucible. In the midst of McCarthyism‚ Abigail would continue to be as ruthless and cunning as she was when she confronted the Witch Trials. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft so she can marry John Proctor. She was never afraid to lie to save herself and burden others with accusations. Abigail
Premium The Crucible Salem witch trials John Proctor
Introduction Lean Consumption Meets Lean Provision Consumption. It sounds so easy. Indeed‚ in advanced market economies‚ it’s often portrayed as effortless. Consumers can get just what they want easily‚ even instantly. And yet‚ the problem is that consumption often isn’t easy and consumers can’t get what they desire. And this is true in every category of consumption‚ for all types of goods and services. In this book we will see why consumption is often hard work for the consumer and is
Premium Problem solving Computer
LEAN ACCOUNTING: BEST PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATION "Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.” – Taiichi Ohno‚ father of the Toyota Production System Lean Accounting-It is simply the application of lean principles to the accounting and associated functions within the enterprise. The idea is simple‚ but the application is not obvious within the framework of traditional accounting systems. Lean Accounting was born in the early 90’s through the experiences
Premium Lean manufacturing
LEAN IN PRODUCTION AND SERVICE The word term ‘’LEAN’’ was put together to describe and personalize Toyota’s business activity during the 1980’s by a research team headed by one Jim Womack‚ Ph.D.‚ at MIT’s international Motor vehicle programme. According to them‚ the concept of ‘LEAN’ was fathered by Taiichi Ohno of Toyota. Ohno developed a contrasting approach to the mass production methods of US car firms through necessity. Later‚ in 1996‚ Jim Womack’s team espoused the five lean principles
Premium Lean manufacturing
Air Jordan is a brand of shoes and athletic clothing designed‚ owned‚ and produced by Michael Jordan for Nike’s Jordan Brand subsidiary. The shoes‚ informally referred to in the plural as Air Jordan’s or simply J’s‚ were first released for public consumption in 1985 after Michael Jordan wore them in 1984 as a rookie; thereafter‚ new designs were released annually. Since its introduction into the sports shoe market‚ the Air Jordan evolved to the original basketball shoes to models for different uses
Premium
INTEGRATING PEOPLE‚ PROCESS‚ AND TECHNOLOGY IN LEAN HEALTHCARE by Brock C. Husby A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Industrial and Operations Engineering) in The University of Michigan 2012 Doctoral Committee: Professor Jeffrey K. Liker‚ Chair Professor Lawrence Martin Seiford Professor Richard Van Harrison Associate Professor Young Kyun Ro
Premium Health care Medicine Lean manufacturing
The lean accounting method was first developed and introduced by Toyota and other Japanese companies. Toyota executives claim that the famed Toyota Production System was inspired by what they learned during visits to the Ford Motor Company in the 1920s and developed by Toyota leaders such as Taiichi Ohno and consultant Shigeo Shingo after World War II. As pioneer American and European companies embraced lean manufacturing methods in the late 1980s‚ they discovered that lean thinking must be applied
Premium Lean manufacturing Manufacturing