Lean Management Journal – “Lean Assessments: The Rally Point of the Journey” by Joseph Paris: October 2013
“Lean Assessments: The Rally Point of the Journey”, by XONITEK’s Joseph Paris, emphasises the importance of self-assessment prior to and during any lean journey to ensure your organisation arrives at its intended destination. Plus, continued media coverage of the Operational Excellence Society. Published in Lean Management Journal in the October 2013 issue. Download PDF
Performance Metrics – Their Content and Structure Can Have a Major Impact on the Results Achieved
A performance metric – any measurement used to gauge an organization’s performance in a specific area (usually important area) and is updated routinely with new data. Data can tell a story; unfortunately it’s often not formatted to ensure everybody sees, understands and acts on that story. In many organizations, especially those with poor performance results, the…
How Do You Drive Transformation in Your Organization?
Are you a Program Manager or a Project Manager? Probably a little bit of both… Program sounds bigger, and people with more experience even call themselves Program Directors as a way of showing how many more years of practice they have in the field. But, what is the difference, and does it matter? Yes, it matters….
Decisions, Decisions…
Every moment of every day, a person takes action. Some of these actions are involuntary in that the person does not have to contemplate their taking place, such as: breathing, the heart beating, digestive process, etc… And some of these actions are voluntary in that the person is consciously involved in taking the action, such as:…
Operational Excellence & Challenges Faced in a CO2 Removal System
In 2010, Engro Fertilizers commissioned the world’s largest single-train ammonia-urea complex capable of producing 3835 tpd prilled urea. This Plant is equipped with aMDEA Based CO2 Removal System to make the process more clean and energy efficient. This paper presents operating experience of BASF aMDEA in a CO2 removal system of this new Ammonia Plant. It…
How to Adapt to Economic Uncertainties (A Lean and Customer Focused Initiative)
Today, only 40% of world leading executive business leaders around the globe are confident of their revenue growth prospects (Source: PWC). In today’s economic environment, many global companies must adapt to a new situation where: Supply chain risks are higher Competition within existing markets increases yet more The lean spheres widen to areas outside the production…