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Six Sigma Best Practices in Mission Critical Organizations
Six Sigma is a broad methodology that can be easily applied in a variety of fields and contexts, and while this makes it a powerful tool, it can also lead to some confusion among newcomers to the...
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5 Cost Reduction Strategies for Your Restaurant
Operating a restaurant will often demand more elbow grease and innovation than is needed to run other kinds of service businesses. The costs are much higher as the inputs have short shelf lives,...
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How to Target Pricing Operations with Six Sigma (and Why)
Today, many companies have managed to get the balancing act of getting costs down and handling manufacturing inefficiencies right. This can mostly be attributed to the adoption of Six Sigma...
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Saluting Our Heroes on Memorial Day
On Memorial Day, we honor all the men and women who have fought in our armed forces. Here at Shmula, we want to take the time to think about what Memorial Day really means, and honor all of our...
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Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ): Using it to Drive Business Improvement
Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) investigates the costs that result from the provision of poor quality goods and services in order to find ways to improve business processes and quality. It is a...
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Applying Six Sigma to Your Company’s Pricing Strategy
There are many factors that can contribute to a defective pricing strategy. Of these the most fundamental are poorly designed processes or those which are not clearly specified. Still, even in the...
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Demand Management Creates a Balance Between Supply and Demand
Demand Management allows an organization to create a more efficient supply chain. The best way to create efficiency is through transparency and simplicity. From the largest to the smallest,...
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[VIDEO] The Challenges of Demand Management
The function of recognizing all demands for goods and services to support the marketplace. It involves prioritizing demand when supply is lacking. Proper Demand Management facilitates the planning and...
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Basic Principles of a Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Program
A reliability-centered maintenance program is a useful tool in contexts where the long-term viability of a product or system is of critical value, and the main focus in its maintenance is supposed to...
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3 Optimum Maintenance Strategies in a Reliability-Centered Maintenance Program
A reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) program carries many potential benefits for an organization that wants to ensure the long-term viability of its equipment. The main idea is to ensure that...
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Taguchi Methods and How They Apply to Manufacturing
The Taguchi methods can be seen in many industries nowadays, and they’ve become an integral part of the optimization strategies of many companies. And yet, despite the fact that they tend to be so...
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Applications of RCM in the Military
Reliability-Centered Maintenance – or RCM for short – has numerous important applications in many segments of the industry, and it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with the basic principles...
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Theory of Constraints Addresses Weakest Link
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) adopts the common idiom that “a chain is no stronger than its weakest link” and refers to the understanding that processes are crucially vulnerable because the weakest...
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[VIDEO] Theory of Constraints Gets Back to Basics
The Theory of Constraints is a methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor (i.e. constraint) that stands in the way of achieving a goal and then systematically improving that...
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Understanding Weibull Analysis
Weibull analysis is a specific type of statistical analysis that attempts to predict how a product will behave over its lifetime, what kinds of parameter changes one can expect from it, and what...
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5 Ways to Optimize a Quality Assurance Program Within Facilities Management
Running a proper quality assurance program in facilities management is important if you don’t want to see your resources go to waste in the long run. There’s a lot that can go wrong even in a...
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5 Ways Lean Six Sigma Can Improve the Hotel Industry
Lean and Six Sigma have quickly become two of the most important methods to gauge business process quality in many industries, helping organizations attain higher effectiveness and improved...
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5 Important Trends in Business Process Management
Business process management is constantly evolving, and it’s important to stay in touch with the current trends in the field, no matter how critical your leadership position might be to your...
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[VIDEO] The Simplicity and Effectiveness of Visual Management
Visual Management is one of the simplest, most effective tools of Lean manufacturing, but often overlooked. The key to success is simplicity. If anyone were to walk through your manufacturing...
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Visual Management is the Key to Communicating
One of the most significant parts of Lean manufacturing is Visual Management. It is truly one of the most overlooked, but simplest tools available to manufacturers. Managing visually is the ability of...
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