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RSS leanLean Six Sigma: Successfully Integrating Lean and Six Sigma Improvement Initiatives
White Paper Two of the most popular buzz-words in business today are lean and six sigma. The primary thrust of lean is to reduce waste. Essentially, lean creates a manufacturing revolution through the cumulative effects of many, many small improvements. [20 Apr 2004]
Lean, green, theft-proof machines?
News Following silicon.com's recent series of stories revealing how many laptops get stolen each year, it is perhaps no surprise that companies are looking at ways of securing their corporate data. And at the Citrix iForum this week there was no... [06 Jun 2007]
Spyder Scales New Peaks by Running Lean
White Paper Spyder follows an outsourced manufacturing model, relying on overseas suppliers to produce skiwear and ship the goods to regional distribution centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its distribution centers then forward the finished... [06 Nov 2007]
In brief: Lean times for NCD
News Network Computing Devices (NCD) will report, as predicted, lower revenues and a larger operating loss for the June period than it posted for this year's first quarter. For the first quarter, ending 31st March, NCD revenues were $30.7m with a net... [30 Jun 1998]
Ericsson chairman warns of lean months ahead
News Only two months after talking up its prospects for 1999, Ericsson has admitted it is now worried about the year ahead. In an interview last week with Swedish newspaper FinansTidningen, Ericsson chairman Lars Ramqvist said analysts' profits... [21 Dec 1998]
Dell gets fatter while lean HP flags
News Dell's strategy of focusing on market share has left HP lagging behind as it searches for profitability in a flat market Dell's results show that in the current economic slowdown, market share is more important than profitability. [17 Aug 2001]
Federal Budget Update: Administration's Budget Lean for States; Cracks Down on Intergovernmental Transfers
White Paper The $2.4 trillion fiscal 2005 budget released by the White House on Monday reflects a 1 percent decrease in discretionary aid to state and local governments and a 4 percent cut in the mandatory and entitlement grants directed to them. [07 Jul 2005]
Lean, mean times hit HP and Dell
News Industry stalwarts Hewlett-Packard and Dell yesterday reported slumping turnover and slashed profits. Company chiefs also predicted that the hard times would continue. HP, exposed across the range of computer hardware from PCs to servers, actually... [17 Aug 2001]
Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
White Paper One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management. The blurring of the line between manufacturing and... [23 Jul 2008]
Family Gift Stores on Adjacent Seattle Piers Keep Tight Watch on Lean Inventories
White Paper Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and Waterfront Landmark are two very different gift stores owned by the same couple, separated on adjacent piers of the Seattle, Washington waterfront, and now united by Microsoft Business Solutions Retail Management System. [22 Nov 2006]
Introduction to PeopleSoft Flow Production System: Advanced Planning System with Lean Manufacturing for Optimal Return
White Paper Flow control is the method of production and inventory control that helps to increase the efficiency and productive of the suply chain with no increase in the overhead.This usually delivers one time increase in return on asset. [25 Feb 2004]
The Lean Workforce
White Paper Ever since the industrial revolution supplanted individual craftsmen as the means to get products to consumers, there has been a continual quest to drive time and cost out of the production and delivery process, what one now calls the supply chain. [08 Jan 2008]
HMV adopts lean digital business strategy
News Music, video and games retailer HMV Group has set out its web 2.0 stall as part of an effort to offset flagging physical store sales, and which could also lead to redundancies in the IT department. The retailer, which operates the HMV and... [28 Jun 2007]
AMD touts lean, mean 'Centrino-busting' chip
News AMD is coming out with its own Centrino. The chipmaker is prepping an energy-efficient laptop chip, code-named Griffin, as well as a platform based around Griffin called Puma, (similar to Intel's Centrino) that should allow AMD to better compete in... [18 May 2007]
Print Business Software - When Only Lean Manufacturers Survive, It's Time for ERP
White Paper In recent years, survival of the fittest has become the mantra for businesses across various industries. For the flexographic printing trade, it has become a guiding principle. For years, printers/converters have been challenged by ways to avoid... [15 May 2008]
