 Lean Student Paper Competition 2013 Sponsored by J T. and the late Carol S. Black
IIE Lean Division Purpose: The Student Paper Competition will be held each year to honor outstanding papers in the field of lean research and practices.
The papers should demonstrate or describe the use of techniques such as simulation, lean principle implementation, alternative designs, kaizen implementation, etc. Both undergraduate and graduate students and design teams are invited to submit papers. The award will be given each year at the IIE Annual Conference if there is a suitable recipient.
Click here for selection process, monetary award, eligibility criteria, paper guidelines, important dates
Submission deadline: December 15, 2012
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| The Lean Best Practice Award 2013
The Lean division of IIE is launching its third industry best practice award and welcomes applications from organizational teams for the Lean Best Practice Award 2013. The Lean Best Practice Award recognizes organizations for innovative and effective implementation of lean principles and practices that deliver exemplary business performance improvement. IIE will conduct the award competition to promote successful implementation of lean by recognizing best in class industries and sharing their stories with others. This is a very prestigious award for a team and their industry.
The award will be bestowed to the top three teams and be presented at the IIE Annual Conference & Expo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18-22, 2013.
Click here for nomination form, eligibility criteria, evaluation criteria, awarding process, submission process and deadlines, past winners
Application deadline: January 31, 2013 |
Feature article
The Toyota Production Systems Laboratory at RIT
By Andres Carrano
Director, Toyota Production Systems Lab
The Toyota Production Systems Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology is a nationally recognized facility that supports teaching and research in the aeas of lean, problem solving and modern production systems. This facility traces its roots back to 2001, when a basic assembly line was first installed in a temporary facility.
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Call for Nominations for Lean Teaching Award 2013Annual Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Lean Concepts
IIE's lean division offers a number of awards to recognize the contribution of individuals to advancing the knowledge and practice of lean concepts. The lean division's teaching award is given out annually to honor the services of a person/group of people who have developed curriculum and disseminated courses in the subject area. The lean division now invites nominations for the 6th Lean Teaching Award. The 2013 award will be presented at the IIE Annual Conference & Expo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18-22, 2013.
Click here for eligibility criteria, evaluation criteria, and submittal instructions
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Ask the Expert: LeanKeep Lean Fair
Question:
How often should you have a mass update of labor standards after you have measured improvements? Since the standards are used to calculate productivity, when do you establish a new baseline after the improvements have been achieved? Or do you continue to measure from the same baseline until something negatively affects productivity?
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Managing VSM
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I am new to value stream mapping. How do I manage machine centers that are members of several value streams? Our primary business is custom metal fabrication, so our cell layouts can't necessarily be built around one value stream because different parts might require different processing. How can we approach value stream mapping with flexibility to accommodate different custom products?
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Upcoming webinar!
In its continuing Lean Webinar series - the Lean Division presents its next webinar.
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Title: Lean Supply Chain: Best Practices & Case Studies
Date: January 17, 2013
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern
Presenter: Tom Knight, founder of Invistics, a provider of proven consulting and software solutions that help high mix manufacturers improve profitability.
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Featured Lean definitions
Process Control:
(1) Automatic control of industrial processes in which continuous material or energy is produced. (2) Pertaining to systems whose purpose is to provide automation of continuous operations. This is contrasted with numerical control, which provides automation of discrete operations.
Method Analysis:
That part of methods engineering normally involving an examination and analysis of an operation or a work cycle broken down into its constituent parts for the purpose of improvement, elimination of unnecessary steps, and/or establishing and recording in detail a proposed method of performance.
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