Take your Career to the Next Level
by Marcia Garcia Rios When I started working in quality management at a medical device company a couple of years ago, I thought my job was mostly about optimizing equipment settings, adjusting production lines, and writing long protocols. I pictured myself tweaking machines, running experiments, and making processes more efficient. But what I quickly realized … Read more
This month’s newsletter article is one in a series about individuals working in continuous improvement. Each LSS practitioner gets to share their journey in CI and lessons learned. This month I spoke with Allison Madewell, a LSS Black Belt with Uber Freight, formerly Transplace. She completed Black Belt training in 2022 and is currently a … Read more
Becoming a LSS Green Belt or Black Belt takes a major investment of time and money. It starts with 2-4 months of training followed by additional months of leading a project team, collecting and analyzing data, determining root causes, running a pilot, and implementing a solution. The results speak for themselves, with sizeable impacts to … Read more
This month’s newsletter is one in a series about individuals working in continuous improvement. Each LSS practitioner gets to share their journey in CI and some lessons learned. This month I spoke with Ryan Johnson, a LSS Black Belt with CoorsTek, a privately owned manufacturer of technical ceramics for aerospace, automotive, chemical, electronics, medical, metallurgical, … Read more
This month’s newsletter is one in a series about individuals working in continuous improvement. Each LSS practitioner gets to share their journey in CI and some lessons learned. This month I spoke with Will McDade. Over the course of his career, he’s led Continuous Improvement initiatives at three different companies: Amerimax, Dr Pepper, and Interstate … Read more
Alberto Yanez has worked in continuous improvement for 34 years. The last 17 of those years were at TMAC. He is retiring on January 31. He’s been an invaluable member of our LSS Team. We wouldn’t be here today without his hard work. His passion for continuous improvement and customer focus are well known by … Read more
2024 was another busy year for TMAC’s Lean Six Sigma Program. In January I partnered with Chris Meeks to deliver our Lean 101 workshop for Fresh Pets. This pet food company is growing by leaps and bounds (pun intended) and Chris has been instrumental in helping them improve quality and productivity. I also was fortunate … Read more
Whether your organization is on a lean journey or planning one, aligning management and the workforce with understanding and acceptance can be a challenge. Lean promises shortened lead times, less waste, and more productive operations. But for many companies the results achieved have fallen short. There is growing consensus in the lean community that a narrow focus on lean tools without providing the workforce with continuous improvement skills will result in poor results if not outright failure.
Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Additive Manufacturing – it’s a brave new world. Business leaders are focused on high tech and emerging markets. Innovation and automation seem to be the name of the game. Does that mean if your company is not “in” any of these trends, you’ll soon be “out” of business? Perhaps AI and robotics … Read more
In our February blog we provided an overview of Measurement System Analysis for continuous data. Specifically, we explained the TMAC approach to plan and conduct a Gage R&R Study. Then in our March blog we discussed how to interpret the output from a Gage R&R Study. In addition, we shared insights on how to fix … Read more
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