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Lean Division News

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August 2004

IIE - A leader in lean

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Welcome to the latest issue of the Lean Division e-Newsletter – your connection to the latest developments in the world of Lean. You are receiving this e-mail because you have joined IIE's Lean Division.

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CONTENTS

* Welcome to IIE’s Lean Division!

* The Director's Corner

* 4th Annual Lean Management Solutions Conference 2004

* Identifying Waste on the Shop Floor, a Book Review

* Lean Division Growth

* The Measure of a Leader

* The Truce between Lean and IT

* Management Muda

* Lean Enterprise Seminars

* Six Sigma Seminars

* Feedback

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Welcome to IIE's Lean Division!

From the Lean Management Solutions Conference to seminars on Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma, the Lean Division gives you the resources to advance your knowledge of Lean practices. Network with your peers through the Division listserve, read articles related to Lean ... and get involved. The Lean Division is looking for volunteers to grow the community into a central resource for Lean information. To find out what you can do, check out About the Division and let us know how you'd like to help!

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The Director's Corner

If you missed the first ever IIE Lean Division Audio Conference, Monday, July 26th with Dr. Tom Greenwood, you really missed a treat. And it was free to all IIE members as a membership benefit!!! There was an overwhelming response to the audio conference that featured Tom’s slides online. Many of the participants to the audio conference were able to phone in to ask questions of Tom and myself. What a fun way to learn more about lean and six sigma and interact. IIE and the Lean Division hope to do another IIE Lean Division Audio Conference soon (maybe even before the Lean Management Solutions Conference in September!

As another benefit to belonging to IIE, IIE has created a listserv for Society, Division and Interest Group members interested in technical areas. The Lean listserv was launched July 12. To join any of these lists, especially the Lean listserv, go to and fill out the “Join and IIE listserve” form. The listserv is an excellent way to share ideas and learn from your peers and establish contacts with top industrial engineers, authors, educators, researchers, consultants, specialists and private industrial and commercial practitioners. It's also a great resource for career networking. Establishing relationships with other IIE members will assist you in building a network that can be invaluable when considering a job change. And by maintaining a close association with your peers, you build the kind of friendships that will benefit you throughout your career.

Participating in the audio conference, Lean Management Solutions Conference, and Lean Division Listserv are ways to expand your knowledge as well as give something back to the profession by sharing your experience and pointed questions. By working together as a Lean Division, industrial engineers can gain increased recognition and knowledge of the profession, provide support and assistance to industrial engineering students, promote the profession to secondary school students, serve as mentors to university students, and promote the profession world wide.

So, come on – network! Give the audio conference, Lean Management Solutions Conference, and Lean listserv a try and start receiving benefits from your IIE Lean Division membership today. Let us know if we can assist you.

John S. W. Fargher, Jr., Ph.D.

Director, Lean Division

Phone: (314) 291-2121, Ext 237

Fax: (314) 291-2525

E-mail: mailto:jfargher@

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Excellence in Lean Education and Training

4th Annual Lean Management Solutions Conference 2004

September 12-16, 2004 | Wilshire Grand Hotel | Los Angeles, CA

Register by August 13 for the best rate! Go to

World Class Lean Leaders Show You How To:

* Change the Culture to Lean

* Use the Latest Lean Tools and Methodologies

* Apply Six Sigma and Quality in the Lean Enterprise

* Squeeze the Most Out of the Lean Supply Chain

* Use Effective Lean Performance Measures, Accounting and Benchmarking

* Adapt Successful Case Studies in Lean Enterprise

Special Highlights

* Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops

* Six Tracks with Lean Solutions

* Company Tours Show Lean Concepts at Work

* Keynotes from Experts in Lean Management

Featured Keynote Speakers:

** Major General James H. Pillsbury **

Commanding General of the US Army Aviation and Missile Command

Awarded several honors and decorations including the Defense Superior Service Medal with (Oak Leaf Cluster), Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf Cluster), and Bronze Star Medal.

** Ed Schaniel **

Director | The Boeing Company

Leads management of change globally at Boeing

** Norman Bodek, Ph.D. **

Author of Kaikaku: The Power and Magic of Lean and co-authored The Idea Generator - Quick and Easy Kaizen

For more information about the conference, or to register, go to or call (800) 494-0460 or (770) 449-0460.

From IIE - The Leader in Effective Lean

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Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor

Created by the Productivity Press Development Team

Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor is an excellent guide to understanding, identifying, and eliminating shop floor waste. It is part of the Shopfloor Series books and is organized in the same easy to follow straightforward method of presenting concepts, tools, and examples in simple language.

The book begins defining waste, how it occurs and the benefits of eliminating waste. The second chapter goes in to great detail about the seven types of wastes. The causes of each type of waste, approaches to eliminate the waste and a checklist for each waste are given. The next chapter discusses methods for discovering waste and analyzing current conditions. The fourth chapter presents methods for removing waste in the movement of goods, the actions of people, and the way people, goods and machines are combined. In each type of waste a table is included that gives causes of the waste, ways to eliminate the waste, and expected resistance. The next chapter discusses methods to prevent waste such as visual and auditory controls and the 5W and 1H sheet. The final chapter has the reader reflect on what they have learned and conclusions.

The outline and structure of the book provide an excellent strategy for identifying and eliminating waste. The book is written and organized in a very easy to understand format that can provide a strong background to creating a training program. The tools, charts and tactics presented in the book can be incorporated easily into a manufacturing process. The approaches given in the book are very simple and cost-effective. Along with the tools and methods for eliminating waste, the challenges that may be encountered are discussed which is very beneficial when introducing a new concept.

The books in the Shopfloor Series complement each other for building a lean manufacturing operation. Some of the other books in the series include:

* Standard Work for the Shopfloor

* Autonomous Maintenance for Operators

* Mistake-Proofing for Operators

* Kanban for the Shopfloor

* 5S for Operators

* Cellular Manufacturing

* Kaizen for the Shopfloor

* Pull Production for the Shopfloor

* Just-in-Time for Operators

* TPM Team Guide

* Quick Changeover for Operators

To find out more or to order this book visit:



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Lean Division Growth

The Fastest Growing Division of IIE: Lean Grows by 858%!

The Lean Division is one of the fastest growing divisions of IIE Since its birth in September of 2003, the Lean Division has jumped from 86 to 824 members in just10 months! Every month, the membership has grown by 32% and added 82 members on average. Take a look at the figure online at . Furthermore, the division is on pace to break 1,000 members in less than one year. Jump on board to learn and share information about lean manufacturing, and reap the FREE benefits the Lean Division has to offer:

* Lean Division List Serve (lean@)

* Ask the Expert

* Bi -Monthly Newsletters

* Web Page with Updated Studies and Information

* . . . and much more!

To learn more about the Lean Division, visit the Lean Division homepage at lean or for further information email Heather Bradley at mailto:hbradley@ .

Don’t forget about the 4th Annual Lean Management Solutions Conference in sunny Los Angeles, CA September 12- 16 2004 at

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The Measure of a Leader

By Kevin McManus

Most leaders do a good job of talking about the need to be lean and approving training dollars for lean tools, but are these same leaders trying to make their own leadership systems as lean as they can be?

An organization’s leadership is one of the most important systems in any business, school, hospital, government, or volunteer group. There are good reasons why leadership represents the most points in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria.

To read more visit:



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The Truce Between Lean and IT

by Dave Dixon

Eliminating wasteful operations doesn’t mean trashing your technology system.

There is a story about the owner of a manufacturing firm who went to Japan to learn about lean. He was shown lean techniques in action and was duly impressed with the results: extraordinary productivity levels, scant inventories, very visible control of quality, throughput at light speed, and great customer service.

"This is for me," he said. "But tell me how this ties in with my MRP system."

"It doesn’t," his host replied. "Go home and turn it off."

To read more visit:



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Management Muda

by Kevin McManus

As Managers, we often ask front-line people to nickel-and-dime the waste out of their processes in our efforts to implement lean practices. But managers have our own forms of muda – waste – that we should be working to minimize if we are going to support a lean practices implementation fully.

The primary process managers are responsible for is meetings. I don’t know that many front-line supervisors who like to attend meetings, but I have know a lot of front-office people who relish spending time with their peers talking about work. They must enjoy it because they seem to be doing it most of the time they are on the job. Does your company measure the amount of time managers spend in meetings and attempt to reduce (or, better yet, optimize) that time?

To read more visit:



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Lean Enterprise Seminars

A lean enterprise views itself as part of an extended value chain, focusing on the elimination of waste between you and your suppliers, and you and your customers.

To view a list of upcoming Lean seminars visit:



To learn more about the IIE Seminar Series visit:



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Six Sigma Seminars

IIE offers several courses on Six Sigma Concepts, Six Sigma Green Belt,

Six Sigma Black Belt. To learn more visit:



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