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RSS leanRecalibrating Lean: Enterprise Mobility and Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing
White Paper The goal of this white paper is to detail the benefits of integrating enterprise mobility into your lean environment, especially when it comes to the fundamental components of calibrating, operating and improving. [02 Aug 2005]
Extending Lean Initiatives Across the Organization: How greater efficiencies can extend beyond the manufacturing floor and back-office
White Paper This white paper addresses the importance of optimizing front-office initiatives, in the way that back-office initiatives are made lean, in order to help your company stay competitive and improve the bottom line. [12 Dec 2007]
Muller alights on lean client solution
News Muller - a yoghurt manufacturer - has turned its back on PCs, and installed 200 windows-based ThinSTAR lean clients from NCD. Nick Gorringe, research and development manager at basilica computing, the St Albans-based reseller which carried out the... [30 Jun 1998]
5 Ways ERP can help you implement Lean
White Paper Becoming lean has been a goal of most companies over the last few years. Why is lean so popular? Lean delivers what companies really need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit... [01 Jul 2008]
The Lean Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers
White Paper Increasingly, complex equipment manufacturers are implementing lean initiatives to create competitive advantage. On the road to initiating these lean processes, what obstacles and challenges are complex equipment manufacturers facing today? [03 Jan 2008]
LifeCycle Lean
White Paper The key to managing the life cycle of large assets and critical infrastructure with more efficiency and fewer resources lies in the application of "lean" operating principles. Lean, commonly associated with the Toyota Product System, is most... [03 Jul 2008]
Better for patients and profit: become a safe and lean healthcare provider
White Paper Click for information and a complimentary copy of a special report on how to transform into a safe and lean healthcare provider. The healthcare industry is plagued by inefficiency, inflated costs and poor administrative process. [12 Dec 2007]
Automotive Parts Supplier Gears for Growth With Lean Manufacturing
White Paper To meet these challenges and to keep up with rapidly growing global demand, Haldex decided to implement lean manufacturing practices. Working with lean manufacturing specialists at Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Avanade, Haldex replaced a... [11 Sep 2007]
BA chief exec backs "lean" tech future
News British Airways (BA) is borrowing a manufacturing concept originally developed by Toyota for the automotive sector in the 1970s to make its technology more "lean" for the future. BA CEO Willie Walsh claims "lean" technology and processes will be... [18 Oct 2006]
Managing Lean Software Development With Cumulative Flow Diagrams
White Paper Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs) are used in Lean Production. Using real examples from the field, learn how to use CFDs with agile and lean software development methods. Agile methods such as Scrum and Feature-Driven Development (FDD) have adopted... [10 Sep 2007]
Going Lean
White Paper In order to "go lean" with your enterprise, you need to understand customers and what they value. To get your company focused on these needs you must define the value streams inside your company (all the activities which are needed to provide a... [03 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Using Lean Thinking and Microsoft Project in the Microsoft Solution Framework V4.0
White Paper This new approach incorporates many aspects of lean thinking and other principles used in highly-productive operational and manufacturing environments. In 2005, Microsoft is launching a new process guide for software development projects. [14 Dec 2005]
ERP & Lean
White Paper Historically, the industry has been extremely cost conscious, priced its products based on a cost-plus philosophy, and has been slow to adopt new concepts and technologies, such as Lean Manufacturing and ERP applications. [21 May 2008]
Ensuring Lean Manufacturing at Shanghai General Motors
White Paper Download this case study to read about the special development effort that was needed and learn why the project manager at Shanghai GM can now say, "SAP Custom Development enabled us to drive out waste, streamline a complex and lengthy production... [26 Jul 2007]
Benefits of Connecting RFID and Lean Principles in Health Care
White Paper Health care has a tremendous opportunity to deploy lean principles to reduce internal/external costs, improve patient safety, increase profits, reduce litigation and decrease the dependence on Government and Insurance. [09 Feb 2006]
