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To start the New Year off right we’d like to take a look at blogs written by TMAC staff in 2023. You may have missed reading some of them. Or may just want to give some of them a second read as you get started on your LSS activities for 2024. We started off one … Read more
As we reach the end of our 20th Year of offering Lean Six Sigma services to our customers, I’d like to take a look back at our activities. We started off in January with a trip to the Philadelphia area for a Lean Six Sigma Deployment kaizen event for Align Precision. My colleague Satya Kudapa … Read more
Ever wonder what are the most important keys to project success? From my experience it boils down to two things: Management Buy-In and Effective Project Management. The former, Management Buy-In, is environment dependent and outside the scope of this article. However, it has been covered in previous blogs such as this one by my colleague … Read more
This year marks 20 years since TMAC offered our very first LSS class. Hard to believe it’s been two decades since we launched our Lean Six Sigma Program. Earlier this month we celebrated this milestone with customers, current and former TMAC staff members. How did our program get started? Its origins go back to 2002 … Read more
Launching a Lean Six Sigma Program Imagine starting a new job at a company with no formal continuous improvement program. There is no culture of fact-based decision-making. The company measures only one thing: Dollars. A wide variety of problems exist across many different departments – accounting, procurement, human resources, operations, customer service. And you’ve been … Read more
Year in Review This year marked a return to normalcy as TMAC began operating much as we did before the pandemic. Today all classes, workshops, kaizen events and project work are held in-person. Still, we see the benefit of – and have gotten very comfortable using – virtual platforms for meetings and coaching sessions. But … Read more
Not your “typical” Lean Six Sigma Student Howdy LSS Newsletter subscribers! My name is Loren Hitchcock and I’m not your “typical” Lean Six Sigma student. I’m a member of the TMAC team, and work in business development. Basically, I’m responsible for growing and developing our customer base here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area. This … Read more
This month’s newsletter starts the first in an occasional series about individuals working in continuous improvement. Our goal is to let LSS practitioners tell their stories and share some lessons learned. This month I spoke with Kellie Foglio, a LSS Master Black Belt with USG Corporation. When did you begin working at USG Corporation, and … Read more
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Earlier this month was the 78th anniversary of one of the most important events of the 20th Century: The D-Day Invasion at Normandy. More correctly known as Operation Neptune (land-based operations were dubbed Operation Overlord), it is considered the largest seaborne invasion in history. The complexity of this event is hard to … Read more
Co-Authored by Alberto Yáñez-Moreno, Ph.D and Russ Aikman, MBB In Part 1 of this blog, we shared some basic information about designed experiments, and the advantages of DOE over other root cause methods. In this blog we will provide an overview on how to conduct a designed experiment. We will also share details of a … Read more
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