Category: Industries
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How Eurostar’s Temple Mills Depot is building a culture of Continuous Improvement
At Eurostar’s Temple Mills depot, Continuous Improvement has shifted from a side initiative to a driver of operational success. With rising maintenance demands and pressure on planning, the team introduced…
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Lean manufacturing 4.0
Smart Lean and Smart Six Sigma, including their many different names, are on the rise. Smart Industry is making Lean increasingly more flexible. The innovations vary from automated vehicles to…
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Lean Manufacturing
What is Lean Manufacturing? Lean Manufacturing is a management philosophy aimed at generating the maximum amount of value for the customer with the least amount of waste. Waste is anything…
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Celebrating Aleksandra’s Black Belt project achievements
Aleksandra Mozdzynska’s Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project set out to expand Scotland’s Reproductive Tissue Programme beyond its central belt, making specialised care more accessible across the country. By redesigning…
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Black Belt project saves media company £140,000
At a leading media company, the traditional daily newspaper still rolls off the presses, but with it comes unavoidable “waste” during setup. For one Black Belt participant, a 25-year veteran…
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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 we train. Regardless of who is in front of the…
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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. Faced with inconsistent communication channels and missing information in over…
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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 data changes, known as HR mutations. Faced with frequent submission…
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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 75% improvement, while slashing operational costs by 50%. This Lean…
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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 six-month Green Belt project set out to increase usage of…
