Operational Excellence Tools Blog
Operational Excellence tools (think Lean, Six Sigma, business process analysis), case studies, and items of interest from the US Industry Solutions Organization at Microsoft.
Lean Healthcare trip reports
I recently visited Penn State University Hershey Medical Center (HMC) and the Children's Hospital of...
Date: 09/19/2007
New IndustryWeek webcast: Lean at Haldex featuring Microsoft Dynamics
New IndustryWeek webcast featuring a Lean leader and an IT leader from Haldex, discussing "The...
Date: 07/27/2007
Industry Week webcast with Lockheed Martin on using software to run kaizen events more effectively
IndustryWeek is sponsoring a webcast on May 31st that should be very revealing. Registration...
Date: 05/23/2007
www.kanban.com is now live
Ultriva has launched their hosted, subscription based eKanban service at www.kanban.com. It's a .NET...
Date: 05/10/2007
Ultriva User's Conference highlights
In Cupertino, CA today at the Ultriva User's Conference listening to a many customer case study...
Date: 05/10/2007
IndustryWeek webcast on Enterprise Value Stream Mapping & Analysis
On May 31st, Lockheed Martin will be conducting a webcast hosted by IndustryWeek. Lockheed Martin...
Date: 05/04/2007
A refreshing outlook on 'New Millennium' Lean
USC Consulting Group (www.usccg.com) has written a very thorough whitepaper describing how...
Date: 04/03/2007
Microsoft announces Microsoft Dynamics Industry Solution for Lean Enterprises
Details available at...
Date: 03/21/2007
Lean commentary from major commercial aviation OEMs
Here at the SpeedNews Aviation Suppliers Conference in LA, interesting comments on lean from Airbus...
Date: 03/20/2007
Podcast of last weekend's radio show on using six sigma to improve energy efficiency
Podcast of six sigma segment from Corning on last weekend's America's Business with Mike Hambrick...
Date: 03/14/2007
How Corning used Six Sigma to improve energy efficiency - this weekend's topic on America's Business with Mike Hambrick
This weekend another radio segment airs on America's Business with Mike Hambrick on how Corning used...
Date: 03/09/2007
Upcoming webinar on the impact of software on lean transformation efforts
...featuring the Harbour-Felax Group and Activplant, March 28, 2007. Details at:...
Date: 03/08/2007
A new book for Lean Product Development
Last week at the Lean Transformation Summit, Prof. Durward Sobek of Montana State University, gave a...
Date: 03/08/2007
Bill Gates on American Competitiveness
From shopfloor.org: Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates appeared before the Senate Health...
Date: 03/08/2007
Interesting article on Lockheed Martin's LM21 management philosophy combining lean and six sigma
...from Defense Acquisition Review at www.dau.mil/pubs/arq/2004arq/Joyce.pdf A couple of years old...
Date: 03/07/2007
And now for some manufacturing humor...
Thanks to Ron Pereira for a good laugh - found this on his Lean Six Sigma Academy blog:...
Date: 03/06/2007
New case study - Gates Corporation enabling continuous improvement with Sharepoint
New case study published on Gates Corporation - details how they are using various Microsoft...
Date: 03/06/2007
5s OneNote Example
In a previous post I talked about using a shared OneNote workbook as a way of making continuously...
Date: 03/05/2007
Interesting post about kaizen for Windows
...talking about designing the machine around the process and not vice versa, from Gemba Panta Rei...
Date: 03/05/2007
5s for the Information Worker: Example of how to use OneNote and Sharepoint to simplify and expedite team follow-up
As an industry marketing manager at Microsoft, I face a challenge that I’m sure many teams share –...
Date: 03/02/2007
Great read - Scoble's book on the impact of blogging on how corporations communicate with their customers
I just started reading a great book on how blogging is changing both “the online conversation” and...
Date: 03/02/2007
New podcast of Lean segment from Feb 10-11 America's Business radio show
Podcast of the Lean segment from last weekend's America's Business with Mike Hambrick show is now...
Date: 02/12/2007
Free Visio trial available from National Association of Manufacturers
As you know Microsoft Visio is one of the primary tools that can help automate value stream mapping...
Date: 02/12/2007
Lean solutions director Ingo Heel and Just Born Foods profiled on NAM America's Business Radio show this weekend !
Tune in to the National Association of Manufacturers weekly radio show America's Business with Mike...
Date: 02/09/2007
New Manufacturing Business Technology article on lean replenishment
...shows that the application of lean thinking and tools to the supply chain is a hot area in the...
Date: 02/08/2007
Emerson is tackling inventory turns with technology
Check out the IndustryWeek webcast from January called Emerson Lean: From Strategy to Execution....
Date: 02/08/2007
5s for the Information Worker
Over the recent holidays, I embarked on a backup, cleanup, and Office 2007 upgrade for my PC. As...
Date: 01/16/2007
Join me at the Lean Transformation Summit
Join me in attending this conference...several of the companies speaking are using software and...
Date: 01/11/2007
How Software Can Help Your Lean Program – and You, the Lean Professional
There is nothing like walking into the “war room” after a kaizen event. I usually see the same thing...
Date: 01/11/2007
Informative Lean video case study
One way to quickly understand what Collaborative eKanban is all about is to watch the Flash demo and...
Date: 01/10/2007
Welcome to the Lean Tools Blog!
This is a new blog started by the US Lean Manufacturing team at Microsoft. It is intended to...
Date: 01/09/2007
New IndustryWeek Webcast January 18: Emerson Lean - From Strategy to Execution
Great webcast next week featuring Ray Keefe, VP-Manufacturing at Emerson Electric. Lean deployment...
Date: 01/09/2007