An Operational Nod to Anthony Bourdain
Sometimes operational lessons get reinforced by unexpected players. This one begins with a story surrounding the late great Anthony Bourdain.
DPA Helps Sealing Products Producer Reduce Lead Manufacturing Lead Time By 64.8%
DPA helps sealing products producer reduce lead manufacturing lead time by 64.8% applying sound Value Stream Map (VSM) and other lean principles.
A New Look at In-sourcing and Cell Layout Boosts this Manufacturer’s Capacity by 107%
Identifying risks to product quality and other supply chain issues of logistics and costs reduces lead times by 60%, cell layout boosts capacity by 107%.
Helping a Specialty Materials Producer Apply FMEA And Preventative Maintenance To Reduce Scrap
The Kaizen team worked with DPA to identify simple, repeatable methods for capturing the amount of scrap generated at the process.
Helping a Specialty Materials Producer Embrace PDCA Culture
DPA recently worked with a manufacturer of wire, cables and connectivity products to reduce scrap at one of their factories.
How to get OCM Right: Questions and Steps to Lasting Change
Is your business contemplating operational change? Most organizational change programs fail is they don’t take thoughts and emotions into account.
Standardizing Set Ups and Reducing Re-work for a Fiber Products Manufacturer
Improving throughput was the challenge to find ways of standardizing setups while streamlining an increase in reliability on a major production line.
What’s Your Maintenance Strategy?
Maintenance strategy doesn’t enter our non-technical brains unless it directly affects our productivity and well-being. The 5 basic maintenance strategies.
Production to Shipping Performance
How DPA helped improve the flow in the shipping department so that available goods are processed more efficiently increasing productivity in the shipping department by 30%.