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6 02, 2023

Waste Not, Want Not: An Interview with George Taninecz

By |2023-02-20T18:00:55+00:00February 6th, 2023|George Taninecz, MPI Manufacturing Study, Process Improvement, Sustainability|Comments Off on Waste Not, Want Not: An Interview with George Taninecz

MPI Insight: MPI has been tracking green performances of manufacturers since 2010 in the MPI Manufacturing Study. What are the most interesting trends over that time? George: One interesting trend is that the growth of green in manufacturing slowed a bit in past years of the studies. Then it picked up again in our 2021 study. It appears that there's more industry awareness now, with companies recognizing that they need to get on board with green manufacturing. Some companies may be recognizing that their customers want them to be green, and that may be pushing those numbers, too. So, that's an [...]

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19 01, 2023

The Lean, Green Future of Manufacturing

By |2023-01-23T21:18:13+00:00January 19th, 2023|MPI Manufacturing Study, Process Improvement, Sustainability|Comments Off on The Lean, Green Future of Manufacturing

Lean manufacturing and environmentally responsible practices go hand in hand. Why? Because lean drives plants to optimize for efficiency and relentless reduction of waste. What could be a more perfect match for green manufacturing? The MPI Group has tracked manufacturers’ use of green practices — and performance on green metrics — since 2010. We’ve found that plants using lean – and/or the related methodology of the Toyota Production System (TPS) – are more likely to use leading green practices and to outperform on green metrics. Many factors contribute to the success of these lean, green plants, including: #1. Environment-Friendly [...]

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7 11, 2022

Doing the Gemba Walk for Digital Profits

By |2022-11-07T18:34:43+00:00November 7th, 2022|Lean, Manufacturing, Process Improvement|Comments Off on Doing the Gemba Walk for Digital Profits

If you know lean, you’re already familiar with the “gemba walk” (quick refresher: the Toyota/lean idea of “going to the gemba” means to observe the work in the actual place where it happens). The Digital Transformation for Manufacturers project (an MPI collaboration funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce) has everything you need to know about how to take a gemba walk that helps your company become the digital leader it was born to be. How? By deepening focus: as a team walks through a facility, it identifies a digital weakness —and then team members wrap their cross-functional brains [...]

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23 08, 2022

Bringing Change Management to Life: An Interview with George Taninecz

By |2022-08-24T18:08:53+00:00August 23rd, 2022|George Taninecz, Healthcare, Leadership, Process Improvement|Comments Off on Bringing Change Management to Life: An Interview with George Taninecz

Performance Improvement expert and MPI’s VP of Research George Taninecz on the art of the huddle, the role of lean in healthcare, and his new change management novel, Winning Innovation. MPI Insight: George, you’ve spent your career as a student of performance improvement, in particular lean manufacturing. You had a front row seat to the advent of lean in manufacturing while you were an editor at IndustryWeek and then you eventually became a partner and VP of Research at The MPI Group. What is your work like with performance improvement at MPI now? George: MPI comes at it from a [...]

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