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5 Principles to Align Your Organization into Excellence

Lean initiatives must be aligned towards the same objectives, in order to avoid the "bubble effect": a lot of Kaizen events or Lean projects, engaging a lot of people in improvement activities that lack consistency and consequently have no impact on performance.

Create Lean Mindsets & Behaviors

Developing a trusting climate, promoting personal development, empowering employees to manage the continuous improvement process.

Lean across all Service Sectors

No one goes unscathed! Waste is everywhere, and only a comprehensive approach to Lean in all processes and all sectors […]

Lean in Human Resources

Develop Lean leaders - build and reinforce the new management roles - create the empowerment mindset - develop the relevant training programs - propose the right recognition and reward system allowing to encourage people engagement and build an improvement culture.

Feedback on the COE Summit 2016 Ohio State University – Columbus

Productivity was a sponsor of the COE Summit 2016 April 12-14
COE SUMMIT 2016 website
Catherine Converset presented a case study on Lean in Support Functions: Deploying a Company-wide Strategy of Excellence

Feedback on the Lean Systems Summit 2016

AUGUST 4 - 5, 2016 - PORTLAND - MAINE
Catherine Converset was speaking at the Lean Systems Summit.
Collaboration, Innovation, and Use of Continuous Improvement concepts in achieving operational excellence.

Blower Failure Case Study – Root Cause Machine Failure Analysis

The goal of Maintenance Improvement is to move away from reactive to a proactive or planned maintenance process. As part of this process, maintenance personnel analyze breakdowns to reveal equipment weaknesses and then modify equipment to improve its operation, maintainability and lengthen equipment life. Root Cause Machine Failure Analysis was introduced to this building products manufacturer’s maintenance reliability team as a method to eliminate a repetitive blower failure.