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The Deosan Story Continues…

A young dairy farmer from the Waikato was so impressed with the results of his teat spray that he bought the company. Mike Bodle had experienced bad mastitis issues until he discovered Teat-Ex from Di....
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Quality Conscious Manufacturing

Having explained the benefits of the Toyota Production System in the last issue, it would be worthwhile to mention something about the Toyota recalls that occurred through 2009/10 and the steps taken ....
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The Toyota Philosophy: Learning and Improving

In our last article on the quality issues at Toyota it became apparent that although these were perhaps not as significant as first thought and portrayed by the US media, Toyota needed to consider ide....
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Embedded training added to competitive edge

Having provided the ‘Lean thinking’ programme nationwide since 2007, the Lean Group and the Centre for Smart Business were teamed by Grow Wellington’s manufacturing and primary industry manager,....
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Image Holdings PIT Review: Our Factory, Our Business, Our Home

At the end of each Productivity Improvement Team (PIT) training, team members present to their management team. This is a chance for PIT teams to look back on and celebrate their accomplishments as we....
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Lean still going strong at Hill Laboratories

In late 2008, Hamilton-based company Hill Laboratories started their Lean journey. A fairly intense period of external training has been followed with Hill Laboratories now managing their own internal....
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Toyota Production Systems Means Productivity Boost

Increasing productivity, efficiency and staff engagement to drive business gains is the goal of most growth oriented organisations, but most don’t seem to be able to adopt a system that can help the....
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‘Lean’ means total transformation

The word ‘Lean’ has been used throughout the west since Womack & Jones created the term in their now famous text “The machine that changed the world”.....
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Optimism Can Be Learned

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” – Gil Stern In a Bay of Plenty warehouse a storeman is e....
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Why Don’t We Train Our Planners?

In an average maintenance organisation the effective working time of our technicians is around 35% of their day, which means that for 65% of their day they are doing something other than productive wo....
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