Uptime Magazine – “Operational Excellence: See the Flow of Value” by Joseph Paris (July 2013)
Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®.
Operational Excellence: See the flow of Value, by Joseph Paris as featured in the June/July edition of Uptime Magazine®.
Bloomberg reports on how the backlash over surging drug prices is starting to take hold. With the average cost of branded cancer drugs doubling over the past decade to about $10,000 per month in the U.S., doctors, insurers and politicians are all moving in different directions to pressure drug-makers on pricing. Cancer doctors, in particular,…
BTOES Insights presents this case study on the Johnson Controls Manufacturing System – just one of the very best Award-Winning Examples of Successful Operational Excellence from the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards, 2017. This well-rounded piece details the four foundations of the system – customer focus, stable production environment, zero tolerance for waste, and organize around pull –…
Crossing Continents! XONITEK Partners with AFOES Consultants Crossing continents! XONITEK Consulting Group Int’l and AFOES Consultants reach out to form a new partnership to ensure all organizations benefit from the consistent and high quality professional skills & resources available from this joint venture. XONITEK which specializes in Operational Excellence (Lean / Six-Sigma and Sustainability) is pleased to announce a new partnership with AFOES…
Cheap China is no more. Manufacturers are realizing that inexpensive labor is becoming increasingly rare in the manufacturing haven. How will this impact China, and subsequently, the rest of the world? While companies are not about to shut down their China-based factories and bustle off to somewhere cheaper, China is being presented with a challenge:…
I spend a lot of time in the world of “Continuous Improvement”. I speak on the subject at Conferences and Universities around the world. I write articles about it. I am even on the Editorial Board of the Lean Management Journal. So I guess that I spend more than just time, I am thoroughly invested…
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Curator and rare book scholar William Noel believes museums should make their collections free and available on the internet. In this fascinating TED Talk, Noel shares the intriguing story behind…