Executive Summary – Lean Implementation Saves Food Manufacturing Plant $800k/yr As a management consultant, I worked with a client food manufacturing plant to kick-start a stalling lean implementation. By focusing the effort on throughput at the constraint, lean methodologies such as 5S, Visual Management System, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), plant throughput skyrocketed nearly 60%. [...]
E-Mail Postal Service
April 3, 2010One of the many business ideas I toss around with friends is a service where physical postal mail is scanned and emailed to the recipient. About a month ago, I commented on a post at The Operations Room, entitled Green Mail. The post was about the USPS transitioning to a more fuel efficient delivery fleet, [...]