3M Six Sigma: Customer Impact
3M shares Six Sigma principles with its customer, Atlantic Broom Service. … … “Not only does Atlantic Broom buy all of the reflectivity agent used in its signs from 3M, it has benefited enormously from...
View ArticleProductivity Improvement: Lean Six Sigma at Caterpillar …
Caterpillar expects slower growth in the future and will have to rely of gains through productivity driven by lean six sigma. … … “These investments will be funded over time by productivity improvement...
View ArticleLean Training Canada
Ontario Canada invests in lean training to improve global competitiveness. … … “Bentley and the Honourable Perrin Beatty, President and CEO of CME, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the 3M...
View ArticleLogistics Six Sigma Savings: 3M Brazil
3M will outsource pallet management to CHEP, trasitioning from exchange pallets. Using the Six Sigma DMAIC process, 3M validates significant room for improvement in its pallet operation. It expects to...
View Article3M Six Sigma Culture: Risk Averse ?
3M adds manufacturing capacity to drive growth. Six Sigma focus may have clouded its judgement with regards to investing for growth. … … “In the past, a 3M culture that viewed new investment with...
View ArticleProcess Depends on Culture
3M challenged by balancing disciplined process execution with flexibility needed to sustain creativity and innovation. It is difficult for an enterprise to sustain cultures necessary to be successful...
View Article3M Six Sigma Role in Innovation
3M’s CEO emphasizes Six Sigma where it can have the greatest impact, in transactional business processes. He has also scaled back the methodology in research and development, using it appropriately....
View ArticleInnovation vs Six Sigma 3M Perspectives
3M’s application of Six Sigma in its research and development processes placed emphasis on repeatability over creativity, resulting in a stifling environment for researchers. … … “Six Sigma would...
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