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Case Analysis: 1.1 Hospitals are Driving toward a Leaner Organization Background: To obtain sustainable organizational efficiency and service quality, many hospitals have adopted an Open Systems Perspective by using “lean management” procedures borrowed from leading car manufacturers, in an effort to “reduce and remove waste from work processes”. These processes improved organizational efficiency reduced costs and provided better patient care. i What ‘seems’ to be the Problem: Secondary Symptoms
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1. Introduction Most diversity initiatives start from the top with the leadership commitment. A high-level strategy is developed, complete with vision, mission and goals. But by the time it gets to the bottom (if it ever makes it!), it is often interpreted very differently. The intent of top-down approaches is noble, but without an equally effective bottom-up strategy, diversity initiatives invariably get stuck in the middle. In most cases, when a company decides to focus on diversity, the CEO
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Toyota Case Operation Management Optional Case #1 Optional case 1 1. What would you do to address the seat problem? Where would you focus your attention and solution efforts? We would focus on a series of actions: • We would first collect data on seats defect issue and try to find out what is the cause of the problem using the 5 Why's analysis. On the other hand we would ask KFS management to do the same thing. Then arrange a meeting with people involved in QM and come up and agree on a
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2013 the multinational corporation consisted of 333,498 employees worldwide and, as of January 2014, is the fourteenth-largest company in the world by revenue. Toyota was the largest automobile manufacturer in 2012 (by production). In July of that year, the company reported the production of its 200-millionth vehicle. Toyota is the world's first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year. It did so in 2012 according to OICA, and in 2013 according to company data. As of
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Page|1 APPLICATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING In Garments Sewing Floor Sabya Sachi Roy ID: 081-23-750 Subodh Kumar Ghosh ID: 081-23-737 AND Ripon Chakraborty ID: 081-23-744 This Report Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Textile Engineering Supervised By Engr. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman Senior Lecturer Department of Textile Engineering Daffodil International University DAFFODIL INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY DHAKA, BANGLADESH JANUARY 2012
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Denmark with my wife. 3 Vestas’ capital markets day 2012 What I bring to the table Past experience Today´s challenges • Major cost reduction and restructuring programs in global companies. • Implementing a lean, flexible and asset light production setup without compromising safety and quality. • General management in process and manufacturing industries. • Eliminating unnecessary costs and complexity out of products and the whole value chain. • Strategist
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PHYU ZIN AYE BBA 10/2 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF JUST-IN-TIME (JIT) JIT is a production and inventory control system in which materials are purchased and units are produced only as needed to meet actual customer demand. In just in time manufacturing system inventories are reduced to the minimum and in some cases they are zero. JIT works in the three types of inventories: a) Raw materials: inventories provide insurance in case suppliers are late with deliveries. b) Work in process: inventories
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CASE STUDY FUJITSU Lean creates a solid platform for growth “The lean approach is enabling us to take on extra business more easily as we know we have the flexibility to provide a greater range of services.” Ian Cooley – Service Delivery Manager (Operations), SMC, Infrastructure Services, Fujitsu Customer’s Challenge Fujitsu Services is a leading European information technology services company, with an annual turnover of £2.46 billion (€3.59 billion) and over 19,000 employees in 20 countries
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• Self-motivated with interpersonal influence and control, analytical problem solving abilities, inductive and deductive reasoning capabilities. • Work efficiently with deadlines, extremes pressures, and minimal supervision. • Connoisseur of the Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma philosophies to conduct continuous process improvements and increase productivity and profitability. • Achieved computer proficiency and keyboarding mastery; demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Office, Peachtree, QuickBooks
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