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Lean Principles and Tools in Industry: Part 2
Thank you to our returning guest blogger Mary Fogelsinger-Huss for another excellent article on how Lean is used in industry. Mary is an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt working for the Dow Corning...
View ArticleNetwork Drive 5S Best Practices
Most people practicing Lean know 5S–Sort, Set, Shine, Standardize and Sustain–and they know it can be applied to many things. Here at Michigan Tech we have applied this thinking to shared network...
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Lean Thinking in an Office
A warm welcome to our new guest blogger, Jim Desrochers. Jim is the Associate Director for Employer Relations in Michigan Tech’s Career Services. He is also training to become a campus Lean...
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Lean IT at Michigan Tech
This post was originally published in Michigan Tech’s IT News and Announcements blog. Lean principles are generally well established and have been applied to manufacturing for quite some time. The...
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Rozsa Rentals Improvement Event Part 1
Last week, The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts held a kaizen event to improve their rental processes. The current process is inconsistent and very confusing for all parties involved including the...
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Lunch and Learn at the Lean Enterprise Institute
This summer I had the great fortune of being a mechanical engineering intern at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory. While in Cambridge, John O’Donnall, Executive Director of...
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Measuring Success
I recently facilitated a Kaizen project for Dining Services that involved their student hiring process. A lot of good ideas and improvement plans came out of it, and the team was very excited about...
View ArticleA Bittersweet End
It has been an amazing 2 1/2 years for me in the Office of Continuous Improvement. Throughout my time as a Student Process Improvement Coordinator (PIC) I have had so many opportunities that I never...
View ArticleError Proofing
We are pleased to present this guest blog post by Heather Dunne, Digital Services Specialist for University Marketing and Communications at Michigan Technological University. One of the common tools in...
View ArticleQuantifying the Value of Lean Improvements
We are pleased to present this guest blog post by Adam Wellstead, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University and 2019-2020 Faculty Fellow. Every...
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