| Center to showcase advances in auto industry, workplace health |
Date Posted: 11/27/2007
Author: Joan Slattery Wall
Topics: Business Management, Workplace safety
A new center at Ohio State University will enable automotive industries and the college to work together to design processes to both protect worker health and optimize new vehicle production.
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| The correct approach to implementing lean |
Date Posted: 10/31/2007
Author: Carl Wright
Topics: Lean manufacturing
The right approach to implementing lean manufacturing begins with an analysis of the businesses needs, opportunities and challenges. Once these opportunities are identified, focused tools are used to solve the issues. Carl Wright provides a game plan and an explanation on some of these tools.
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| Filtration solutions extend uptime, lower maintenance costs |
Date Posted: 7/8/2008
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Uptime is the key at machining plants all around the world, and products that keep the lines moving are worth their weight in … iron. This article includes brief case studies that chronicle improvements at Propak, IPSCO, Shell Canada and Scami.
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| Emerson, Celulosa Arauco commission world's largest 'smart' pulp mill |
Date Posted: 7/8/2008
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Emerson Process Management has helped Celulosa Arauco strengthen its world-class pulp supply capability by digitally integrating the world's largest "smart" pulping mill built by the industry leader at Nueva Aldea in central Chile. Digital automation allows mill personnel to readily access more data, allowing for easier calibration and greater mill-wide visibility, efficiency and management.
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| Air kaizen: Re-examining your equipment |
Date Posted: 7/8/2008
Author: Mike Wroblewski, lean sensei, Batesville Casket Company
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Take a critical look at your processes. How many of your machines are set up to cycle through air before touching the actual material? Lean guru Mike Wroblewski advises that you apply simple kaizen to the process and work yourself out of the air business. It will save you money and increase productivity.
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| Rouge goes green: Ford plant creates sustainable solutions |
Date Posted: 7/8/2008
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When Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant manager Rob Webber looks out his office window at the Dearborn, Mich., facility's "living" roof, he sees a field of green where Canadian geese, mallard ducks and killdeer nest and raise offspring. Seeing wildlife flourish at the Rouge Center would have seemed farfetched five years ago.
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| Effective leadership image is critical to job performance |
Date Posted: 7/8/2008
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Your effectiveness as a leader is tied directly to your image. Your ability to project an authentic leadership presence in the eyes of employees, customers, other important constituencies and the general public is closely related to your ability to do your job well.
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| FOLD & HOLD: A guide to relieve muscle aches and pains |
Date Posted: 7/8/2008
Author: Dr. Dale L. Anderson
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For many plant workers, pain is an everyday occurrence due to poor conditioning, stress, weak muscles and a sedentary lifestyle coupled with bursts of over-use and repetitive or sudden movements. When "slip-ups" happen, muscle spasms and pain often occur. Multiple treatment methods are tried, often to no avail. But, a simple, 90-second solution called the FOLD and HOLD method can alleviate pain and allow the worker to regain mobility and productivity.
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| My 'Lean, Reliable and Lubed' conference experience |
Date Posted: 6/4/2008
Author: Mike Wroblewski, lean sensei, Batesville Casket Company
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Batesville Casket Company lean sensei Mike Wroblewski provides his insights on the lean manufacturing component of Noria Corporation’s recent "Lean, Reliable and Lubed" conference in Nashville. Says Mike, "More and more companies are exploring the lean approach, and judging from the representatives in attendance at the conference, it appears that they are making an effort to learn as much as possible."
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| Leadership in the face of change |
Date Posted: 6/4/2008
Author: John Baker
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READY Thinking is a framework that produces influential action and enables an individual – or an entire organization – to get motivated and take action in the face of both challenge and opportunity. With this model, you are able to tackle tough problems, flourish in times of turmoil and to be more capable of moving through change rapidly. READY is an acronym that outlines a five-step process to bring leadership into times of uncertainty.
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