Good Afternoon The next meeting of our network: WHEN: Thursday September 21, 2006 from 8:30am until Noon WHERE: Savage Toyota, 41 Industrial Drive, Hamburg, PA 19526 (across from Cabela’s) phone: 877.646.1122 WHAT: How Savage has improved it’s Sales and Customer/Auto Service processes. WHO: Customer Service, Marketing and Sales THREE ATTENDEES PER MEMBER COMPANY ARE INVITED…. Read more »
Posts By: Dwight Bowen
Suggestions for your lean start-up
The latest, focused and to the point, “COMPETING” podcast focuses on time tested suggestions for an effective lean startup. From leadership commitment, to presentation of the value stream map based implementation plan, listen to what has and hasn’t worked for my client. Enjoy and write back with your thoughts, opinions and questions. Good and bad,… Read more »
Better Process Podcast
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On August 10, 2006 Dwight Bowen was interviewed on the Podcasternews network by Ken Rayment founder of the Better Process Podcast show. This brief interview focuses on the development, process and success of the Lean Thinking Network and interactive. multi-company networks in general.
5S Best Practices
Perhaps your company is implementing 5S and finding the process challenging. Resistance to 5S is frequently cultural………..”Hey, we don’t have time to clean up”……..or…..”auditing our facility and organizing and cleaning up each day will increase cost and reduce productivity”. Most companies find the 5S process difficult, especially when sales are strong. So how can you… Read more »
Meeting Cancellation
Due to travel demands Reading Powder Coatings has had to cancel hosting the network on 9/21/06, we hope to reschedule at RPC sometime Q! 2007. In reaction I am working on two options… both are tentative. First, in mid-September a network visit to Savage Toyota in Hamburg, touring their new facility built to Toyota’s Service… Read more »
Next Meeting, September 21, 2006 at Reading Powder Coatings
What: Our next, abbreviated network meeting will focus on Reading Powder Coating’s initial Six-Sigma project, the process and results. When: 9/21/06 from 9am until 11am (abbreviated meeting) Where: Reading Powder Coatings (Tiger Drylac) 1100 Commons Blvd Reading, PA 19605 Phone: 610.926-0655 Who: All network companies MAX 2 ATTENDEES PER COMPANY due to space constraints. Quality… Read more »
July 13, 2006 Network Meeting Summary
A total of 22 participants from: Misco Products Reading Powder Coatings The Rose Corporation Insinger Machine Yoder Brothers American LaFrance Our host……Clean Burn Inc. attended this session. The focus was “visual workplace” primarily, the manufacturing operation. A brief training period; supermarkets, kanban, Little’s Law, FIFO, Andon and other visual tools, followed a greeting from Clean… Read more »
Lack of Trust – The 9th Waste?
Lack of Trust The Ninth Waste? Developing effective teamwork is extremely difficult. What would it take to improve your teamwork? Does trust affect teamwork? Company leaders; do your reports trust you, does ownership or your board of directors trust you? Do you trust them? Managers/Supervisors; do you trust your boss? Do your reports trust you?… Read more »
Competing July 2006
Lack of Trust The Ninth Waste ?
Developing effective teamwork is extremely difficult. What would it take to improve your teamwork? Does trust affect teamwork?
Company leaders; do your reports trust you, does ownership or your board of directors trust you? Do you trust them?
Managers/Supervisors; do you trust your boss? Do your reports trust you?
Everyone else; do you trust your boss? Your boss’s boss?
The Stages of Lean and the Art of Kaizen
The Stages of Lean (according to Dwight) Beginner implemented one Value Stream Map “future state” and are experiencing the “honeymoon effect” Improvement is daily, and progress is fast. 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… Read more »
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