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In a lot of corporate structures, there is a hierarchal model where the corporation talks to the individual Business Units (BUs), who in turn talk to the individual plants, who then have to control the individual lines. At the very top level, they crunch their numbers to figure out what their...

Very true Beuchamp, it's a shame that politics has to impede the improvement of a plant. There are a lot of people with a lot of good ideas, but they're just not at the right place to do anything about it. And Ptheobald, we've found that a few of our customers had similar solutions. One used...

When it comes time to allocate a plant's continuous improvement budget, the decisions are often based on data that is slow and inaccurate. This leads to a process that relies quite heavily on speculating where problems actually are, resulting in improvement based on those assumptions. The...

We apologize. Although we do have intentions to sell our product, the reason for our post was to just illuminate the idea of a unified platform. This is a forum about Lean Manufacturing, and this was a suggestion that plant managers and companies could use to improve their plants. It is true...

Actually, a progressive culture with the right tools to minimize production losses drives down manufacturing costs. As far as i know, competitive prices are a competitive advantage. While some manufacturers may try to reduce costs by cutting corners on R&D or PMs, minimizing manufacturing losses...

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