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Scaling a FreightTech Business with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

Founded in 2016, and located in Fort Wayne, IN, Princeton TMX provides an intuitive user experience, configured to meet specific business requirements and streamline, automate, and optimize all modes of transportation. In 2001, he completed a two-year Six Sigma certification program with General Electric and is a GE certified Black Belt.

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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

SCMDOJO

Over the years, various methodologies have emerged to address this need, including lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and the integration of both known as Lean Six Sigma (LSS). Understanding Lean and Six Sigma Lean and Six Sigma are two powerful methodologies aimed at enhancing organizational efficiency and quality.

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11 Effective Process Improvement Techniques in Manufacturing

Unleashed

Some organisations even choose to combine different techniques in order to meet the unique needs of their operations. Six Sigma Six Sigma’s methodology was developed in the 1980s by a scientist at Motorola. In addition to the Six Sigma concept is Lean Six Sigma.

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25 Lean Manufacturing Tools – 5S, Six Sigma & Beyond

Unleashed

Lean Six Sigma Six Sigma is a set of methodologies first devised by Motorola in the 1980s, designed to improve the quality of Motorola’s products to the point where defects were so rare as to be statistically insignificant. When combined with lean practices, it becomes Lean Six Sigma.

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What Supply Chain Leaders Keep Getting Wrong

Speaker: David Blonski, Chief Operations Officer of Elementum

By investing in the same ideas and initiatives they always have: a new ERP, better demand planning, doubling down on six sigma. Get the fundamentals rocking, so your operations can meet their full potential. And, to stay up with the times, maybe some artificial intelligence, machine learning, or blockchain.

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5 Keys to Implementing Improvement Initiatives

The Logistics of Logistics

My particular improvement soapbox is Lean Management with some Six Sigma thrown in for good measure. The principles can be applied to anything, just like Lean and Six Sigma. Implementing Lean, or Six Sigma, or Agile, or any other improvement tool requires learning, practice, revelation, realization, and modification.

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How Medical Device Manufacturers Can Overcome Disruption to Save Lives

USC Consulting Group

Imagine a scenario in which there is unprecedented demand for the products you manufacture, but disruptions in the supply chain are making it difficult, if not impossible, to meet that demand and even if you do, logistics bottlenecks are preventing them from getting where they need to go. Lean manufacturing is nothing new.