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Eight Pillars of Total Productive Maintenance

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Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), in contrast with reactive maintenance, which waits until equipment breaks before taking action, takes preventative steps to boost machine performance and prevent slowdowns, defects, or speed losses. TPM strives to maximize machine utilization while decreasing dela...Read more

 

Just-In-Time Inventory Management

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Just-In-Time was developed in post-World War II Japan as a production model that reduces inventory costs while meeting customer demands in real-time. Accurate demand forecasting is vital to this method of manufacturing and delivery.JIT relies on local sourcing, which may be more expensive. Furthermo...Read more

 

The Four Lean Principles That Transform Service Delivery

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Lean Principles are a Scrum project management methodology that promotes waste elimination. While initially developed for manufacturing purposes, these principles have since found widespread application within service delivery.Lean begins by identifying value. Any process or activity that doesn't ad...Read more