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Recent Graduates

 

First Gold Award Achieved in Lean Green Belt

Organizations world-wide are recognizing the benefits of empowering their individual staff members in the successful application of Lean Thinking.

 

Some of these firms are now seeking organization-wide accreditation as a means of achieving maximum operational efficiencies and a discernible strategic marketing advantage over their main competitors. Colm Rochford, Plant Manger American Power

Conversion, became the first participant to achieve a Gold Award in our Lean Green Belt SCM Certification program. 

 

“When embarking on our Lean transformation initiative, we not only needed to educate ourselves on Lean principles”  Col

m disclosed, “but also on the application of those principles.  The classroom work educated us on the basics of Lean Thinking and the in-house projects providing us with experience in the application of those principles."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

All of us here at Leading Edge would like to  congratulate Colm on such an excellent achievement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colm Rochford,

Plant Manager

American Power

Conversion.

Lean is not “Frugal”. Lean is “Value” By Dan Markovitz

BusinessWeek Online joined the rest of the media in noting that Toyota just passed GM as the global leader in auto sales this quarter. The article covers all the usual points, and, to its credit, does add a few words about Lean.

But the author goes off-track when he states that, “Toyota workers value frugality - whether it's turning down the heat at company-owned dormitories during working hours, back spending in

Japan, or weeks jawboning with suppliers to figure out ways to redesign a key component and shave another 10% from production costs”. Clearly, the author is trying to address the issue of muda. But he misses the point: Toyota (and the employees) aren't trying to be "frugal." They're not trying to save money.

Rather, they're trying to eliminate the waste in their operations - from the production line to the dorm

rooms - that the customer doesn't value.

If Toyota really wanted to save money, they wouldn't have company dormitories at all. They'd let employees take care of their own housing.

From this perspective, "frugality" isn't the goal at all. Frugality is simply a by-product of the focus on customer value.

Recent 2007 Graduates:

Hugh O'Neill, Ivax; Stan Horan, Stephen Fagan, Ciamha Hurst, Tamara Wegorowska, and Erich Stack  - all Cascade Designs; Simona Hunt, Veterans Administration (VA) ; Sorin Stefan, Granville Composite Products; Marie Keane, APC

Graduates of the Lean Green Belt SCM Program with University College Cork :

 

Noel Burke and Declan Kennedy, Pfizer; Barry Condon, Schering Plough Ltd.; Delia Coughlan, Michael McDonagh and Sheila Cronin, DePuy Johnson & Johnson; Patrick Cronin, EMC; Dermot Crowley , RR Donnelly (Banta Global  Turnkey) Limerick; Joseph Cuningham, Musgrave; Gary Dyer, OSB; Gerard Healy, Sense Technologies Ltd.; Jason Kelliher, Pepsico; Elaine Kennedy and Caitirona Moran, Novartis; Joanne Kirby, Samina-sci; Mary O’Dwyer, Bord Gais Transportation; Bernard O’Connell, GlaxoSmithKline.