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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
This month’s newsletter is one in a series about individuals working in continuous improvement. We asked LSS practitioners to tell their stories and share lessons learned. This month’s spotlight is Amy Hogan, a LSS Black Belt with Setpoint Integrated Solutions which is owned by PVI Holdings. Amy completed her GB training in 2017 and BB training in 2020. Setpoint Integrated Solutions is the expert in the process control industry, serving the power, refining, and chemical industries with best-in-class valve repair services, delivering process solutions for control, relief, and automated valve requirements, along with industrial equipment. In the LSS photo above, that’s Amy on the right wearing the blue shirt with white sleeves.
This month’s newsletter is one in a series about individuals working in continuous improvement. We asked LSS practitioners to tell their stories and share lessons learned. This month’s spotlight is Amy Hogan, a LSS Black Belt with Setpoint Integrated Solutions which is owned by PVI Holdings. Amy completed her GB training in 2017 and BB training in 2020. Setpoint Integrated Solutions is the expert in the process control industry, serving the power, refining, and chemical industries with best-in-class valve repair services, delivering process solutions for control, relief, and automated valve requirements, along with industrial equipment. In the LSS photo above, that’s Amy on the right wearing the blue shirt with white sleeves.
LSS practitioners serve as leaders on their project teams. Some new GBs and BBs have limited experience in a leadership role. For many practitioners, leading teams can be one of their biggest challenges. In this month’s blog TMAC Events Coordinator, Robin Evans, shares her insights on effective leadership gleaned from her father who worked to improve safety at his company.
This month’s newsletter is one in a series about individuals working in continuous improvement. We asked LSS practitioners to tell their stories and share lessons learned. This month’s spotlight is Amy Hogan, a LSS Black Belt with Setpoint Integrated Solutions which is owned by PVI Holdings. Amy completed her GB training in 2017 and BB training in 2020. Setpoint Integrated Solutions is the expert in the process control industry, serving the power, refining, and chemical industries with best-in-class valve repair services, delivering process solutions for control, relief, and automated valve requirements, along with industrial equipment. In the LSS photo above, that’s Amy on the right wearing the blue shirt with white sleeves.
Did you know the number of people working from home tripled from 2019 to 2021? According to the U. S. Census Bureau the number of employees primarily working from home went from ~9M to 27.6M workers during this period. That’s roughly equivalent to all the people – men, women, and children – in Colorado, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kentucky combined!
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
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