Pearson Packaging Systems designs, builds and integrates automated secondary packaging solutions for their customers. They cover the erect, pack, seal and palletize categories, serving customers across the food & beverage, personal care, household & industrial chemicals, e-commerce and warehouse distribution markets. With a strong focus on end-to-end product offering, Pearson doesn’t aim to be ‘everything to everybody’. Instead, Pearson leverages their strengths and optimizes processes to meet the needs of high-volume manufacturers and distributors who depend on line reliability and uptime. Pearson equipment is built to last, providing the highest value and the lowest total cost of ownership.
Read More →Achieving Exceptional Manufacturing Performance & Quality: System-Based Performance Solutions
Q&A with Performance Solutions by Milliken Any improvement methodology is only as effective as its execution. Many manufacturers fail to support their improvement initiatives with a performance management system to provide guidelines and oversight. These companies typically struggle just to stabilize their operations, much less improve. To institute success and drive organizations towards increased safety, productivity and efficiency, Performance Solutions by Milliken utilizes the Milliken Performance System. This system is built upon a foundation of strategic clarity and safety and is focused on engaging all associates in the uncompromising pursuit of zero safety incidents, creating alignment between operations and businesses and resulting in lean enterprise.
Read More →The Shared Milk Run
What Is It? Companies are continually challenged to improve their overall operational services by reducing transportation spending, inventory levels and delivery timelines. The Carter Milkrun System was designed to address those specific challenges and support clients’ lean manufacturing efforts. The Carter Shared Milkrun Network is a unique logistics model designed to support lean initiatives by combining freight from an international client base and thousands of suppliers into a single supply chain solution. One of the pillars of Carter’s success is the “Split-Bill” methodology, which allows clients to fairly split the overall cost of shared milkrun routes. How It Works Milkrun clients share the cost of each shared “milkrun route” based upon the percentage of weight they ship. For example, if you ship 50% of the total weight on a milkrun route, you pay only 50% of the transportation costs. Carter Logistic’s analysts perform weekly route optimizations to ensure shipments travel in the most efficient manner. The proficiency and determination of the Carter Logistics team allows clients to experience substantial and continued savings and achieve their lean initiatives. Carter’s huge network also minimizes empty miles, further reducing costs. As suppliers and/or manufacturing plants add weight to the network, the cost per pound decreases for all participating clients. We worked with Carter Logistics to create this e-book on The Carter Shared Milkrun Network.
Read More →LEADERS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE SUMMIT: INTERVIEW WITH FABIAN SCHMAHL
Fabian Schmahl was named President & CEO of thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, Inc. in April 2008. He is responsible for managing the development and manufacture of premium quality, high performance automotive suspension solutions for Original Equipment, Aftermarket and Motorsports applications. Schmahl oversees the operations of thyssenkrupp Bilstein locations in Hamilton, Ohio (headquarters); Poway, California; Troy, Michigan; and Mooresville, North Carolina. As President & CEO of thyssenkrupp Bilstein, Schmahl has earned extensive recognition for his commitment to his employees, community and the manufacturing industry. Under his leadership, thyssenkrupp Bilstein has been recognized as a Top Workplace in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 by Enquirer Media and Best Workplace in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 by Business Courier. In 2015 and 2017, Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities voted thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America Employer of the Year. In November, Fabian will join us at the American Automotive Summit.
Read More →Opening the Garage Door
Digital technologies have upended the automotive industry. Formerly based solely on a business model of car ownership, the industry is fundamentally redefining itself into a multifaceted digital ecosystem. In a recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, 80% of executives said “comprehensive connected vehicle services” will be a key differentiator for consumers. Today’s car manufacturers and suppliers face intense competition from startups and internet companies with new business models, agile processes and rapid releases. To innovate and scale, industry leaders will need to combine the creative skills of a startup with the traditional strengths of an industrial enterprise.
Read More →XPO’s Whitepaper: Aerospace Logistics
XPO Logistics has partnered with a major Aerospace company whose rotorcraft manufacturing unit recognized an opportunity to successfully increase efficiency at its manufacturing operations. The aerospace company’s plant held 20 storage areas that occupied significant space and delayed the flow of goods to the manufacturing line. In addition to that, assembly mechanics spent excess time looking for and unpacking individual parts and disposing of packaging materials, which increased the cost of labor. In order to increase efficiency within the Rotorcraft manufacturing unit, XPO implemented a comprehensive solution that supported Lean manufacturing strategies, including: Off-campus storage of all materials Management of more than 85,000 SKUs of high-value inventory Assembly of tools and parts into ergonomically designed prefabricated kits JIT delivery of material tot he point-of-use location XPO’s major engagements with this aerospace client include a defense contract, a rotorcraft contract, support in the launching of a new commercial airliner, and the creation of both an aggregated standards network and a comprehensive aftermarket support network for both current and legacy aircraft models. To read more about XPO’s partnership, click here.
Read More →Q&A with Intel: Looking at the Factory of the Future
When looking at the future of manufacturing, we wanted to gather thoughts and insights from our American Manufacturing Summit elite speaker Dr. Irene J. Petrick of Intel, an internationally recognized expert in strategic road mapping and innovation, and the Director of Business Strategy for the Industrial and Energy Solutions Division in Intel’s Internet of Things Group. At Intel, it is Dr.Petrick’s job to provide leadership in the integration of business and technology strategy and to develop solutions that will drive exciting technology to create smart edge devices and end-to-end solutions. In the manufacturing space, there have been major shifts towards smart manufacturing, with a goal to optimize the manufacturing process entirely. Dr. Irene Petrick believes that smart manufacturing triggers are likely to emerge from needs-based business drivers such as operational efficiency and flexibility, ROI, and enhanced customer relationships, and social accelerators such as a growing middle class with an appetite for customized products and a declining manufacturing workforce. Solutions that support the convergence of operating technologies and information technologies will accelerate this manufacturing transformation. It is important to note that there are four shifts that drive smart manufacturing adoption: Modular Manufacturing Digital Threads Networked Ecosystems Human and A.I. Choreography Today’s manufacturers have the opportunity to increase the transparency in their operations using IoT technologies that will acquire and transfer data from the asset through the fog to the cloud, resulting in efficiency ROI, and closer customer relationships, Dr. Petrick notes. …
Read More →Lean Six Sigma and ERP: Putting it All Together for Improved Performance
It’s common for manufacturers to perceive Lean Six Sigma and ERP as contrasting approaches. They often see them as “mutually exclusive” with competing goals and objectives. This informative paper looks at the characteristics of the three approaches. After downloading, you’ll be able to identify the differences and similarities of each. Discover the techniques to combine Lean, Six Sigma and ERP for an effective journey of continuous improvement that leads to improved business performance. “LEAN CALLS INTO PLAY TOOLS THAT ASSIST IN THE IDENTIFICATION AND STEADY ELIMINATION OF WASTE.” Find out more by downloading this white paper here.
Read More →Performance Behavior: the Lean Methodology for Continuously Improving Performance Behavior
The book ‘Performance Behavior’ (by Neil Webers) describes how an organization can link performance to behavior to minimize waste and optimize performance behavior. 8 FORMS OF HUMAN-WASTE are outlined which obstruct continuous improvement: Leadership-waste the result from too much push-management (based on authority) Comfort-waste the result of targets that aren’t enough stretching Communication-waste the result of misunderstandings that usually originate from meetings Discipline-waste the result when people are not being held accountable for not adhering to standards Goal-waste the result of employees having no idea of what is expected of them Engagement-waste the result of asking people to take responsibility for events or results which they cannot influence themselves Solving-waste the waste of capacity to solve problems when people work on solving problems without focusing on the root-cause of a problem Tuning-waste is the waste where people talk about different problems or solutions Find out more below!
Read More →WCOM (World Class Operations Management): Why You Need More Than Lean
This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organization, and the results that this approach can bring about. Utilizing real-world case studies illustrated by companies that have adopted this model (interviews with Saint-Gobain, L’Oréal, Tetra Pak, Bemis, and Bel Executives), it describes common patterns drawn from decades of hands-on experience, so as to present a theoretical approach together with the concrete application of its principles. WCOM, adopted by several multinational companies, is one of the more innovative management practises, as it integrates the best Continuous Improvement approaches (Lean, Total Productive Management, World Class Manufacturing) as well as the most innovative approaches in human dynamics like Change Leadership, Performance Behavior, Shingo Model, to name a few. Every book’s chapter has been authored by an expert in these different fields, thus revealing the synergy among the different practices, which is one of the distinguishing and successful aspects of WCOM. Maximising reader insights into the successful implementation of such an approach, and explaining not only its potentialities, but also its implementation dynamics, the critical points and the ways it can be integrated into different situations, this book is also about how to create a culture of excellence that is sustainable over a long period of time and delivers consistent (or ever-improving) results. Check out the Efeso Consulting book below:
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