Joseph Paris Joins Lean Management Journal’s Editorial Board – June 2012

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Lean Management Journal announces that XONITEK’s Joseph Paris has joined their editorial board.  Robert Priolo, Editor for LMJ, made it official with this announcement: “I believe there is a lot in store for the journal in the coming months… the editorial board has a great role to play in supporting the expansion of the journal.
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How to Deliver the Full Potential of a Lean Six Sigma Initiative

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As Operational Excellence professionals, we are all dedicated to eliminating waste from the processes we aim at improving. Yet, are we eliminating 100% of our own wastes? Are we leveraging the full benefits of what we are doing? Are we, ourselves, guilty of the 8thwaste (I mean waste of opportunity) as we are not always delivering…
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The Gemba Beyond the Window

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By Joseph Paris
I love the smell of machine oil.  I love to hear the clanging and clanking of machinery in operation.  I love the banging when one machine hammers away at a piece of metal to form it into something new or the high-pitched “whir” of a loom or spinner in operation.  And I love the way huge apparatus groan and…
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