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IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Lufkin Operations: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 Plant leaders, employees ensure quality products during major expansion.   |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009
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Lockheed Martin Corp. MS2 Tactical Systems/Clearwater: IW Best Plants Profile 2008 Hungry for Change: A 'survivor' mentality permeates the culture and drives improvement for Lockheed Clearwater's Oldsmar plant. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Snap-on Power Tools: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Staying Power: How do you create an 'enduring manufacturing footprint' in a hard-hit North Carolina town? The lean way, of course. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2005
John Teresko |
Solectron Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Operating In All Modes: In Columbia, South Carolina the electronics manufacturer competes via lean, Six Sigma to the delight -- and sometimes surprise -- of customers. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009
John Teresko |
Baldor Electric Co./Weaverville Plant: IW Best Plants Profile 2008 Spreading Its Winning Ways: Baldor's Weaverville, N.C., plant is pushing lean/Six Sigma to its suppliers. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
Nordson Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 The Right Attitude: At Nordson Corp. in Dawsonville, Ga., meeting customers' needs is job one. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Brad Kenney |
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control at Orlando: IW Best Plants Profile 2007 In Service of the "Ruby Gods": Extremely precise tolerances drive innovation and standard work at Lockheed Orlando. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
General Cable de Latinoamerica S.A. de C.V.: IW Best Plants Profile 2006 Flexibility Equals Opportunity: General Cable de Latinoamerica finds winning combination in Six Sigma and Lean. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
Life Technologies: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 This plant transformation created a true manufacturing environment in a science-based culture and major revenue wins. |
IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010
Steve Minter |
Measuring the Success of Lean As manufacturers adopt lean principles the process inevitably involves developing metrics for measuring their progress. Selecting the best mileposts for the never-ending journey. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Lean Results for Lean Programs: By the Numbers Although many large U.S.-based manufacturers utilize lean techniques, there's a lot of room for improvement. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Brad Kenney |
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control at Ocala: IW Best Plants Profile 2007 Portrait of a Talent Pipeline: Exemplary employee education and engagement is the rule for Lockheed Ocala's feeder facility. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
Rick Pay |
Everybody's Jumping on the Lean Bandwagon, But Many Are Being Taken for a Ride Lean might not always produce the expected benefits and here's why. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Ranking Continuous Improvement Methods Lean manufacturing tops the list of responses to a survey about continuous improvement programs. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2008
John Teresko |
How to Organize for Lean/Six Sigma To enable the maximum potential of lean/Six Sigma efforts, focus on more than the factory floor. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Lean Training: Back To School Schneider Electric gets results with outside lean training programs. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
John Teresko |
Maintenance Outsourcing As a Global Strategy Last year, Lockheed Martin selected a single source for comprehensive global maintenance services. Shouldn't you? |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2004
David Drickhamer |
Select Company Dedication to excellence catapults companies to IndustryWeek's 2004 Best Plants finalists list. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2005
Kevin T. Higgins |
Lean builds steam Assembly industries and the automotive world flocked to lean manufacturing in the last decade. Now, food and beverage processors are getting in step. |
IndustryWeek
August 18, 2010 |
Lean Confusion It has been embraced, ignored, misunderstood and even derided, but lean's proponents continue to exhort its value as a driver of operational excellence. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Six Sigma, Lean Come Together More companies these days are looking for candidates who demonstrate a mix of lean and Six Sigma skills. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2002
Glenn Hasek |
Hedging Your Bets Conservation plans that protect during crisis pay cost-cutting dividends year-round. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
John Teresko |
General Cable - Indianapolis Compounds: IW Best Plants Profile 2007 Continuing A Winning Culture: General Cable's achievements derive from a workplace culture bent on maximizing Six Sigma and lean. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Ford Plant Restarts Engines With Skilled Training Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 used lean manufacturing and new cultural practices that helped the plant gain a new engine. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Strategy Before Technology ATC's turnaround put customer relations, operations improvements before technology investments. |
IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010 |
Excellence In Action: Sharing Best Practices Tours give manufacturers an opportunity to learn from others' experiences. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
Mark Thackeray |
The Big Picture: Leadership Insights from the IW Best Plants -- Don't Check Your Brain At The Door... You'll Need It Staying mentally tuned-in is critical to General Cable's accomplishments and future success. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
IW Best Plants 2007 -- Models of Success 2007's Best Plants deliver many routes to operational excellence. |
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January 10, 2012
Navjot Kaur |
UAE Adds Feather to Lockheed's Cap Lockheed Martin wins UAE deal. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
IW Best Plants 2006 -- High Achievers IndustryWeek's 2006 Best Plants' devotion to excellence in manufacturing drives winning performances. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009 |
Turning Software Into a Solution Information technology can't make your operation lean, but it can provide valuable support for the long journey ahead. |
IndustryWeek
February 16, 2011 |
Average Isn't Good Enough Simply stated, manufacturers that aren't continually improving are losing ground. VIBCO Vibrators has embraced the principles of lean to assure it remains in the game, not behind the pack. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
George Taninecz |
Siegel-Robert Automotive Farmington: IW Best Plants Profile 2006 Best Of Times In A Tough Industry: Technical expertise and lean are key to one auto supplier's success. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012 |
General Cable Plays Offense with Lean With the help of lean and Six Sigma, General Cable's Gregory Kenny is forging a best-cost manufacturer with growing global reach. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2006
Traci Purdum |
Lauren Manufacturing Embraces A Lean Environment To Compete Going from a traditional American manufacturing mentality to a lean approach. |
IndustryWeek
September 16, 2009
Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement -- What's the Future of U.S. Manufacturing? Some claim manufacturing is dying here but the numbers tell a different story. |
IndustryWeek
January 11, 2012
Pat Panchak |
Making Manufacturing a Competitive Advantage How Industry Week Best Plants winners leverage production to boost the bottom line. |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Leveraging Lean Designs Think flow and flexibility when designing or relocating to a new facility. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2004
George Taninecz |
Faster But Not Better Improved manufacturing times don't always result in comparable cost reductions. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2002
William H. Miller |
Reaching New Heights Lockheed Martin and partners employ dazzling advanced manufacturing technologies to fulfill rich Joint Strike Fighter contract... |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Meeting of the Minds: Where Process and Discrete Manufacturing Converge When it comes to continuous improvement, discrete and process manufacturers may have more in common than they think. A close look at the two industries shows they have opportunities to learn from each other. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2005
Travis Hessman |
Under Pressure Manufacturers cite rising raw material costs for missed earnings, shrinking profits and bankruptcy. But in this environment, leaders like Tyco and Esselte have developed strategies to protect their companies, without drastically raising prices. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Continuous Improvement Technology Market To Double Manufacturers adopt programs that fit their lean initiatives. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
John Teresko |
Bookshelf: Make or Break: How Manufacturers Can Leap From Decline To Revitalization A new book offers a comprehensive reminder of how broadly manufacturing companies will have to proceed to grow a leading competitive role in the future. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Steve Minter |
Critical Success Factors The purpose of the Six Sigma projects is to make the company more efficient and competitive not to reduce their numbers. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
Doug Bartholomew |
Enterprise Software: Lean Gets a Software Assist They said it couldn't be done -- mix enterprise resource planning with lean, that is. But ERP technology can support lean initiatives if you're willing to ride out the cultural shift. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Thought Leaders -- Lean On Me Lean guru Jim Womack believes the world - though not necessarily manufacturing -- is marching in a lean direction. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2006
David Blanchard |
Census of Manufacturers -- What's Working for U.S. Manufacturers The latest Census of Manufacturers reveals that lean is still the most popular improvement method. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2009
Burnsed & Thornton |
Six Sigma Makes a Comeback With the outlook for sales growth dim, everyone from Target to Cadbury to Merck is turning to Six Sigma to squeeze out more savings. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2002
David Drickhamer |
Where Lean Meets Six Sigma Bringing the two concepts together delivers faster results... |
