Posts By: Dwight Bowen

July 13, 2006 at Clean Burn

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Our next network meeting will be held Thursday, July 13th between 8:30am and Noon at Clean Burn, 34 Zimmerman Drive, Leola, PA 17540, Phone 717.656.2011. The focus of this meeting will be “the visual factory”. As many of you know, Clean Burn has done a terrific job implementing and maintaining supermarkets, kanbans and other visual… Read more »

Insinger Machine May 16, 2006

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All network members and one guest attended our meeting at Insinger Machine in Philadelphia. In attendance: Misco Products Yoder Brothers Rose Corporation Clean Burn Remcon Plastics Reading Powder Coatings Guest: American LaFrance The network toured Insinger’s facility focusing on key improvement opportunities developed by the Value Stream Mapping process completed in Mid-February 2006. Congratulations to… Read more »

Tuesday May 16th

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Our next meeting, is being held, Tuesday May 16th, at Insinger Machine, 6245 State Road, Philadelphia, PA 19136-2905, phone 1-800-344-4802, contact Kris Knight. The meeting will be held from 9am until noon. Insinger has chosen “effective measures” as their topic. Two participants from each member company are welcome. We have plans to inject some lively… Read more »

Competing April 2006

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Paying Attention

Whatever you pay most attention to, most likely, will improve.

Let’s talk about what you can control, each minute, hour, day, week. I am referring to those outcomes you and your team can effect. Perhaps outcomes such as:

Summary, Network Meetting at The Rose Corporation March 16, 2006

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Thursday March 16, 2006 The Lean Thinking Network gathered at The Rose Corporation in Reading Subject: Creating Flow and Pace in a Engineer to Order Environment and Maintaining an Effective Continuous Improvement Environment Attending companies: Clean Burn/Mill Creek Reading Powder Coatings Yoder Brothers The Rose Corporation Absent companies: Misco Products Remcon Plastics Insinger Machine Thanks… Read more »

Competing March 2006

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COMPETING MARCH 2006
The Stages of Lean and the Art of Kaizen

The Stages of Lean (according to Dwight)

1- Beginner – implemented one Value Stream Map “future state” and are experiencing the “honeymoon effect” Improvement is daily, and progress is fast.
2- Stalling – dealing with the post-honeymoon condition. Lean isn’t as much fun and is no longer new. It still makes sense, but it’s getting a little stale. You get what you measure. What are you measuring?

Insinger Machine

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Our newest member, located in Philadelphia, is a 113 year old, family owned business, designing and manufacturing high volume dishwasher for the military, institutions and commercial customers. Insinger has focused their lean program to reduce lead-time, improve flow, quality, improve and simplify inventory control and build towards a long and profitable future. The Insinger team… Read more »

Next Network Meeting

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Good morning! Our next meeting: Where: The Rose Corporation, 401 N. 8th Street, Reading, PA 19601. phone (610) 376-5004 When: Thursday, March 16, 2006 from 8:30am until Noon Who: All network members, with a maximum of TWO ATTENDEES PER COMPANY, due to space limitations. What: Our host has selected two subjects……… #1- Flow, Balance and… Read more »

Summary…Network meeting 1.26.06 @ REMCON PLASTICS

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Thursday January 26, 2006 The Lean Thinking Network gathered at Remcon Plastics in Reading Subject: Kaizen results for their Kayak assembly and Rotomolding areas Attending companies: Misco Products Clean Burn/Mill Creek Reading Powder Coatings Yoder Brothers The Rose Corporation Remcon Plastics We discussed the difficulties of cultural change, product flow, line balancing, scheduling/capacity planning, safety,… Read more »