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The Economist reports on the extent to which 3D printing may help entrench the world’s engineering giants in the 21st Century. But these engineering companies are picky about terminology in this regard, for reasons encompassing the fact that the technology itself has now moved beyond the development labs. Indeed, 3D printing is now being used…
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Filmed at an independently organized TEDx event, this talk is narrated by the founders of Sweet Green – Nathaniel Ru, Jonathan Neman, and Nicholas Jermaine. These three guys started this highly successful company, and in doing so, discovered the essential ingredients for forming a winning partnership. In this particular talk, they share with the audience…
In a global marketplace, companies have a primal motivation for continually improving the value-proposition of their offering. They have to outpace the competition and offer more and more, for less and less, otherwise risk losing the customer. To meet these demands of the customer requires that companies constantly seek to increase the velocity of throughput…
Many complex manufacturing businesses have come to understand that operational excellence is an on-going process in which companies strive to produce better results. It has an inherent collaborative nature and typically includes participation from all parts of the organization. But the challenge in manufacturing today is that the metrics upon which the business silos of…
It can be difficult to succeed in implementing Lean transformation and improve a company’s metrics over 10 percent. Particularly when managerial behaviours don’t follow this transformation. In fact, in a Lean environment, managerial behaviours and the company’s culture have to change in order to sustain results. Especially supervisors & team Leaders. Below is a list…
One of the many symbols of Southern Europe’s industrial decline must be the sight of one particular washing machine factory that now makes fewer than half the washing machines it did when Italy joined the euro. Rather, today, the Porcia plant is also a testing ground for the region’s industrial future. Home appliance maker Electrolux, which owns…
