Additive manufacturing

investments were less than if the domestic facilities continued manufacturing efforts. Although Balagny’s decision to outsource was created to minimize overhead, it eventually came with a price that nearly shortened the company’s life-cycle. It is this author’s opinion that although there was a two-year planning phase, research was lacking in supply chain management. Intrinsically, the decision to shut down all domestic manufacturing sites in order to outsource and lower inputs resulted in an…

Over the seven week course of Quality and Lean for Healthcare, the lesson explicates the understanding of Lean and six sigma yellow belt. Are project was to develop a team that was assign to a project manager in a new area within our hospital/organization. The tasked is to increase quality and lower cost in the process of applying Value Stream and Kaizen mapping. Within our discussion, we observed the understanding of the 8 waste, Lean thinking, Toyota Methodology and how to improve workflow.…

In this essay I am going to discuss recent changes of production in a global environment, and based on these changes, explain how business leaders will have to change in order to thrive in the next four years. Global production is the creation and assembly of components to make a finished product that will be exported to multiple different countries (Investopedia, 2016). The ability to adapt as a manager is crucial, as 21st century business leaders are currently working in a complex environment…

At this time your team should feel an urge to create various plans on manufacturing process and flows to improve the situation. When working in manufacturing setting management can be very overwhelming when products are not out in time which leads to working massive amounts of overtime until completed. As an employee of smith and nephew, I understand the magnitude of change and wanting to improve quality and lean manufacturing. After gathering important data and several staff meetings the team…

1.5 ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY (UPLC) Since from thirty years, High performance liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is well accepted technique used in laboratories worldwide. It is one of the analytical techniques used to identify, separate and quantify each analyte in a mixture. One of the primary drivers for the development of this technique has been the progression of the packing materials (particle size, packing technology, chemistry) used to impact the separation. The fundamental…

1.0 Chapter one: Introduction “As global healthcare expenditure soars, and as systems are increasingly required to deliver better care to more people using less resource, the challenge to explore the promises of lean thinking is compelling” (Young and McClean, 2009 p.309). In the United Kingdom (UK) for instance there was a serious rise in public healthcare spending from 3% in 1960 to 7.8% in 2010 (Pettinger, 2015). Although healthcare spending has falling as percentage of a GDP in the UK…

recognized products” and I have worked for them for over 15 years. KC has over 43,000 employees, 144 years in business, over $18 billion in sales and we hold the Number 1 and Number 2 brand shares in 80 countries. In addition to our world class manufacturing, we have donated $35 million in cash and products to charitable causes and continuously improve our sustainability. We have worldwide recognition with our brands; such as, Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Pull-Ups and Depends. Kimberly…

Toyotism, also known as Toyota Production System (TPS), is the term used by the analogy with Fordism to designate the management and production system first developed in Japan by the Toyota company. Lean Production, instead is often used as a generic name in order to take in account all the changes and additions made to the original TPS. It is without any doubts that we can state that one of the fathers of the system was Taiichi Ohno who had the charge of a production engineering manager at…

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is about two researchers, Michael Braungart and William McDonough, who begin a journey on finding new ways to build anything in daily life. They want to encourage designers to rethink on how they currently build their products. For example, they worked on building an aluminum soda can that has a seed in it so if someone throws it out the window, something can grow. They worked on soda cans because once you paint a label on the soda can, there is…

4.1 Lean Six Sigma Definition: Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a methodology that improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation. It is a combination between Six Sigma method and the waste reduction philosophy of LEAN engineering. Mentioning about Six Sigma, it has eight kinds of waste that no company wants during their process - it doesn’t add any value to the customers: + Defects: The product isn’t in accordance with customer wishes, inaccurate, late, incomplete Staff…