President's message
Greetings and Happy New Year!
Every New Year presents another opportunity to reflect back on the year past and make plans for the one ahead. For the Lean Division, the past year has been one that saw a great deal of activity. One of the firsts for the division was the launching of the "Lean Best Practice Award" to recognize organizations for their innovative and effective implementation of lean principles and practices. The seven finalists chosen by the panel of reviewers for the inaugural award made their presentations to a packed audience during the IIE Annual Conference in Reno, Nev.
More from the President
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Call for Papers: Journal of Enterprise Transformation
Special Issue on Lean Enterprise Transformation
Journal of Enterprise Transformation, a new quarterly journal from Taylor & Francis, is inviting papers for its special issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) on Lean Enterprise Transformation.
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Don't miss this highly anticipated event: Annual IIE Conference in Orlando, FL, May 19-23
The Annual IIE Conference and Expo is unlike any other for quality, productivity and efficiency professionals. It attracts attendees from all over the world - professionals, academicians and students - who share an interest in learning, sharing experiences and business successes, networking and just being around others who share their passions for the profession. More
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Upcoming webinar!
Rapid Sustainable Enterprise Transformation through Strategy, Simplicity & Execution
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m. Eastern time
Presenter: Martin Nazareth
This webinar will present and discuss applications and principles of strategic planning and execution (Hoshin Kanri) using a seven step transformation process involving strategy, simplicity and execution. More information and registration
 Martin Nazareth, president of OpEx Solutions, is a global consultant in operational excellence involving the strategic application of lean manufacturing, total productive maintenance, quality and industrial engineering. He has led strategic consulting, training and execution at more than 100 plants in the U.S., Canada, Australia, India, Latin America and Europe.
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Ask the Expert
Question: The price of consulting
I have an opportunity to do some consulting work for a local business. I am not a professional engineer, but I am an engineer in training. The nature of the consulting is mostly related to process, paper flow and scheduling. They also want me to suggest and implement a software program to "get them organized." This will probably involve some Access programming on my part. How do I determine a reasonable fee, and should it be hourly or a flat rate?
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Lean DefinitionAvoidance: A conflict-handling mode that involves ignoring or suppressing a conflict in the hope that it will either go away or not become too disruptive.
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Submit an Article
The Lean Division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers is continuously searching for new material to provide to its membership. If you would like to contribute and see your articles in the newsletter and on the website, please submit your article to tinakovach@gmail.com.
Articles should be approximately three to four pages in length. An article should be single-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman and in Word format. Graphs, diagrams, pictures and charts can also be included, however, they must be in a separate file and saved as a .jpg file. Please also include a two or three sentence biography. Contact information can be included at your discretion.
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Tina Kovach
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"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten."
-Unknown
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IIE Courses can be customized to meet your company's needs through IIE's Corporate Training Program.
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