Process Improvement, LLC experts have international experience leading companies and government agencies through Lean transformations and Lean Six SigmaŽ deployments with the goal of achieving performance excellence. |
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Process Improvement, LLC offers holistic solutions and deployments encompassing all aspects of Leadership and Workforce Development, Continuous Process Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma in order to ensure success. This ensures the requisite commitment from senior leadership to engage the entire production area, including both direct and indirect labor.
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Many companies would like to sell you training because they deliver the training and are paid, and the onus is on you to deliver results. At Process Improvement, LLC we do not just offer training. We deliver complete solutions in order to give your people the best chance at success. |
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We consistently deliver results because we focus on the four things that make your business successful: Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People. |
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Your people are the key to program success. They will be the force that improves your processes so your company has:
- Highest Quality
- Lowest Cost
- Best In Class On-time Delivery
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What are Lean Production Systems and Six Sigma?
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What everyone calls Lean Six Sigma is actually not new and is strongly linked to the Toyota Production System (TPS). It is not a collection of magical tools or silver bullets that will solve problems. Lean Six Sigma is a management system that delivers business performance excellence and requires adherence to the principles, constant vigilance, perseverance and continual improvement by every employee. |
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Lean Production tends to be more internal, focusing on efficiency, productivity, streamlining, capacity, cycletime, and cost. Lean targets unacceptable, abnormal conditions (a.k.a. special causes) and organizations react properly to create short-term countermeasures and long-term solutions. |
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Six Sigma®, trademarked by Motorola, is a systematic methodology to reduce variation with the goal of increasing process capability. Increased process capability means increased quality output, and, therefore, fewer defectives and happier customers. Six Sigma has a different history than Lean, though just as rich, and uses many different tools and methodologies, but still follows the rigorous scientific method for problem solving. |
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Lean Six Sigma is the natural combination of the two disciplines which helps operations focus efforts in the best possible way using the best practices currently available. |
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Success vs. Failure |
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Companies that are successful with Lean Production Systems or Lean Six Sigma know it is really an operational management system to ensure execution excellence through continual improvement. Companies that understand this get results, continually increase efficiency and reduce cost by standardizing on improvements and building upon them. |
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Companies that fail believe some tool, or collection of tools, will magically solve their problems. The tools, employed by experienced practitioners, can and often do, demonstrate pockets of success showing efficiency improvements and cost reductions that are rarely sustained. As the improvements slow and stall Lean is dismissed as a fad. Often fear of the rigorous application of standards and principles prevents companies from truly adopting the mindset, and the necessary, wholehearted commitment is not there. |
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“The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
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