| Conquering the
5th S - How to Sustain Your 5S Implementation |
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The most important thing to realize when implementing 5S is that it is not
something you achieve and then declare "Task Completed." It's an ongoing effort
that not only needs to be sustained, but needs to be improved upon as time goes
on.
This article will hopefully give you some supportive solutions to help
encourage the sustaining efforts in your own business. If you follow the two
guidelines presented and implement some of the suggested techniques, you may be
one of the few companies to honestly be able to say your company is implementing
5S in the workplace and seeing success on a continual basis.
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| RFID: Lemons
or Lemonade |
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By Rick Korchak
RFID Practice Area
Coordinator
NIST
Manufacturing Extension Partnership
RFID, or
Radio Frequency Identification, is rapidly becoming the buzzword of the 21st
Century's first decade. Several very large organizations, including Wal-Mart,
Target, the Department of Defense and others have already begun to implement
RFID technology to identify and track items throughout their extended
enterprise.
They are already starting to require the use of RFID by their suppliers, and
these mandates will eventually affect every organization in the supply chain,
right down to the smallest manufacturer, distributor, and retailer, which
probably means YOU.
So what is RFID and what will it mean for your business?
What are the benefits I might see as a result?
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| Six Sigma for
Beginners - Get Your Green Belt! |
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Green Belt training is 8 days, and Black Belt is an additional 9 days.
A Green Belt is equipped to solve some fairly nasty problems, and often works
on a business process project, though many do work on engineering and production
problems. The Black Belt gets additional training in Design of Experiments,
which is very useful in engineering and production projects.
Training format is four days in class, a month working on the projects,
another four days in class, and so on, with project coaching sessions between
classes.
Six Sigma Overview Sessions:
If you would like to
receive information on when these sessions will take place, please contact: Lee
at (801) 244-2790.
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| MEP Last
Quarter Client Impacts |
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Every quarter, the U.S. Department of Commerce surveys the clients of MEP
Utah to make sure that the services they provide are having a positive impact on
the manufacturers in the state.
Here are the latest impact results from the Department of Commerce Survey of
MEP Clients - 4th Quarter 2004.
*In this round of surveys, MEP Utah was ranked 3rd best in the nation
among over 50 MEP Centers for Quantifiable Impacts!
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