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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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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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What are Critical Performance Indicators in Surveying the Hotel Industry?
Managing a hotel and ensuring its success has got to be among the most challenging jobs in the world, simply because of the huge volume of responsibilities that are required. Because you are...
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[VIDEO] Building the Future With Elon Musk
Elon Musk…innovator and visionary. The guy is mass producing electric cars that are sexy, digging tunnels under Los Angeles and trying to go to Mars. When he gets focused on a vision he typically...
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Why Visual Management Boards Fail
Visual management boards can be too much! If you walk through a Lean manufacturing organization, you can tell immediately whether or not their visual management system is working or not. The walls...
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Understanding Process Execution Management (PEM)
Process Execution Management (PEM) is the overall concept of bringing a specific process to completion from start to finish. It’s a broad term that encompasses a wide variety of disciplines and...
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Breaking Down the SIPOC Diagram
The initial step of a Six Sigma implementation project is making a decision whether the process being examined is a right fit for the tools utilized in the methodology. As a matter of fact, there...
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Six Sigma Best Practices in Shared Services Organizations
Working in a company that provides shared services can make it challenging to ensure that everyone has fair and sufficient access to the services in question. Things can become particularly difficult...
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Using the SIPOC Diagram to Improve Restaurant Processes
Your restaurant may be running as smooth as clockwork, but you feel that there are things that can be done better. Often, processes that were efficient initially may not run as well as they did. You...
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3 Ways to Avoid Revenue Leaks with Six Sigma
Revenue leakage has become a very real concern for thousands of businesses across the world, costing them billions of dollars every year in lower net revenues. If these leaks are left unchecked, they...
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Celebrating the Declaration of Independence
“Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection...
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Celebrating the Fourth of July
For most Americans, we plan our Fourth of July celebrations around outdoor activities and families, animated by fireworks displays. As Americans, we should pause to remember the actions that brought a...
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