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Streamlining Machine Settings for Efficiency in Packaging

In the fast-paced world of consumer goods manufacturing, small inefficiencies can lead to significant costs. That’s why a 12-month Green…

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Uptime Improved Carton Machine

In just six months, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project transformed operations at a consumer goods packaging facility, delivering…

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Cutting Waste in Corrugated Packaging: A Lean Six Sigma Approach

In the high-volume world of corrugated packaging, even small inefficiencies can add up quickly. This Green Belt Lean Six Sigma…

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Improving Customer Communication in Pension Fund Administration

In the world of pension fund administration, clear and timely communication isn’t just important, it’s essential. Faced with a spike…

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Improving Covenant Monitoring in a Bank: A Practical Lean Six Sigma Journey

In just 4.5 months, a major bank transformed its covenant monitoring process, cutting average response times by over 50% and…

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Helping Customers Use Self-Service to Reduce Calls

In the fast-paced world of telecommunications, reducing avoidable customer service calls is key to improving both efficiency and satisfaction. This…

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Speeding Up Public Record Releases: A Lean Six Sigma Approach

In just five months, a public sector organization cut record request processing time from four hours to under one, a…

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Streamlining HRM Processes at an educational institution

At an educational institution’s Service Center HRM, a six-month Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project tackled inefficiencies in processing employee…

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Simplifying Media Service Requests: A Lean Six Sigma Project in Education

At a major educational institution, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project transformed how photography and videography requests were handled….

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No AI Success Without Lean Six Sigma 🚀

AI promises to transform operations, but only if your processes are already under control. Without clean, consistent data, AI becomes…

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Cutting profit, the Cost of Poor Quality

A senior leader once told me, “We don’t have a quality issue, our customers never receive defective products.” But here’s…

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The Epic of Lean Six Sigma Terminology

Is it Lean? Is it Six Sigma? Is it Kaizen, Genryou, or TQC? If the language of process improvement feels…

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How One Trainer Achieved a Student Project Success Rate of 78% and an ROI of 700%

After some two decades of training people in Lean Six Sigma, we have concluded that one issue hinders nearly everyone…

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The basics of FMEA

A ‘failure mode and effects analysis’ (FMEA) is a systematic, and most importantly, pro–active method for evaluating a process or…

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The Basics of Poka Yoke

The Lean Six Sigma methodology offers many tools to improve your processes with. To help you get started with these…

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Goal-setting Frameworks: a comparison between Hoshin Kanri and OKR

Ever participated in a Lean Six Sigma project or worked alongside of Continuous Improvement professionals? Then you will probably have…

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The beginner guide to Lean Six Sigma for managers

Many managers step into Lean Six Sigma out of necessity, new KPIs, added responsibilities, or the pursuit of career growth….

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Lean Six Sigma Can Help You Survive A Crisis

To survive, you must adapt. To adapt, you must improve. To improve, you must organize. This mantra briefly summarizes the…

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