2017 Blog Archive
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Purchase Price vs Total Cost Of Ownership
I have written in the past regarding methods and discussions regarding how to optimize your supply chain. I'd like to take the discussion deeper into one particular area and make an offer I believe...
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Lean vs. Six Sigma
We are often asked, “Which improvement approach, Lean or Six Sigma, is better?” “What are the main differences?” While I know these questions have and continue to be debated by both Lean and Six...
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MAMTC’s REAP Strategy for Kansas Manufacturers
You’ve undoubtedly heard about Win-Win scenarios, right? You know how they go – you win, we win, everyone wins. But when is the last time you were able to actually participate in a Win-Win activity...
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Speed versus Throughput
Remember the movie Speed from 1994? One of the more quoted lines from that movie was something like this – “Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb...
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Stealing Shamelessly
One of the key concepts I learned very early on in my Lean training over 25 years ago was the idea of stealing shamelessly. Before any one gets the idea I learned and support an all-out theft of...
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Bridging the Cash Gap
by Brandi DiGiorgio Top Three Ways Manufacturers Can Bridge the Cash Gap Manufacturers are still feeling the effects of the recession nearly 10 years after it began. Despite advances in technology...
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Cheerleader or Trusted Leader?
We work with clients who are struggling, or have struggled, to successfully implement lean transformations. Over the course of our work, we have found common denominators that cause these culture-...
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Just wait a second...
When someone says this, they don't literally mean one second. After all, what could possibly happen in one second? Well, think about this. I was looking at the results of this year's Daytona 500 race...
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Mr. Southeast Kansas
Steve Davis, aka Mr. Southeast Kansas, is retiring after a 25+ year career with MAMTC. In the words of one of Steve’s favorite singers, Start spreading the news I'm leaving today I want to be a...
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What To Do When Your Children Don't Want The Family Business
by Valerie Vaughn This is the second of a two-part series that explores selling a business. The first article covered preparing a business for sale. You can read the first blog here. This blog takes...
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