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RSS leanLean Initiative Revolutionizes New Product Development at Liming Aero-Engine
White Paper Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group wanted to create a lean enterprise and reduce costs. Founded in 1954, Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group Corporation (Liming) is China's first jet-propelled aircraft engine manufacturer and one of the country's key... [14 Jan 2008]
Lean Thinking: The Theory Behind Agile Software Development
White Paper This paper looks at how the principles of lean thinking can be applied to a general business process as well as software development practices. Included are the ten simple rules of lean programming, an approach to maximizing lean thinking in your... [24 Feb 2004]
Lean Storage: A Phased Approach to Information Lifecycle Management Can Improve the Productivity of a Storage Environment - Today, Not Years From Now
White Paper The achievements of lean manufacturing - such as driving out waste and inefficiencies - offer valuable lessons for enterprises struggling with data storage issues. As a steel manufacturer learned, well-intended quick fixes can actually exacerbate... [10 Apr 2008]
Momentum Webcast: Lean Manufacturing for High Tech Manufacturers (Level 100)
White Paper The attendee of this webcast will learn key lean manufacturing techniques that can significantly improve business and profitability. Traditional lean tools have already penetrated many companies in the industry. [13 Dec 2007]
Getting Lean for Optimal Return
White Paper The focus of this paper is to explain Lean Manufacturing. This is exactly what Lean Manufacturing is all about. The goal for all manufacturing companies has remained constant for many years' profits now and into the future. [24 Feb 2004]
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]
Achieving Lean and Mean: The BPO Value Proposition
White Paper Lean and mean is the name of the game today for many leading market makers and Fortune 500 companies. They're through mobilizing their troops to undertake lengthy and complicated enterprise application implementations, they're looking for immediate... [01 Mar 2004]
Value of Lean Principles
White Paper This white paper discusses the five lean business principles, why they are important and how they are supported by PeopleSoft software functionality. A demand-pull process is at the heart of an organization's lean transformation. [08 Jun 2004]
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]
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]
The Lean Journey: The Quest for Efficiency in the Manufacturing Industry
White Paper Lean manufacturing", a shorthand for a commitment to eliminating waste, simplifying procedures and speeding up production, is one such concept. Six Sigma, the quality assurance principles that are often paired with lean efforts, is another. [11 Sep 2004]
Getting Ready for the Rebound: Bringing 'Lean' to the EMS Supply Chain
White Paper Born out of the Japanese automotive industry in the 1950s, “lean manufacturing” known throughout the industry simply as Lean is a collection of business principles dedicated to eliminating waste, focusing on customer needs, reducing production... [09 Nov 2004]
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Learn How New Lean Enterprise Management Solutions Help Drive Peak Performance in Manufacturing
White Paper As one approaches the midpoint of this century's first decade, information technology is taking on a broader, more strategic role in the implementation of lean manufacturing practices. This webcast explains how Microsoft and Avanade Lean Enterprise... [22 Jun 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]
Sustaining the Military Enterprise: Architecture for a Lean Transformation
White Paper The goal is to achieve a quantum leap in sustainment throughput and efficiency by transforming depot workload and processes into those of a best-in-class commercial-type facility using Lean principles and Cellular manufacturing processes and layouts. [20 May 2005]
