Al Landers had just put his career on the line. As Director of R&D at Huber Engineered Woods, he was under constant pressure from top management to develop new and diverse products – the CEO often reminding him with equal parts advice and warning the pitfalls of...
From the very beginning of this company’s Six Sigma effort the goal was to use the process to address the most important business problems. This meant that everything from scrap reduction to strategy problems to working for the company’s customers to improve...
A company had been deploying Lean Six Sigma (LSS) into its business for a few years. The company was showing increasing success in both individual project improvements and investment returns that were showing up in the company’s bottom line performance. Because...
Background Our client is a North American rigid packaging manufacturer of plastic bottles and containers. Operational Excellence is a principle tenet of the executive leadership team specifically raw material utilization to drive improved bottom line net income. The...
Relatively speaking, it was a good problem for Naveen to have – as of fall 2014, customer demand had skyrocketed at this leading global maker of suspension systems for semi-trailers. And as Manufacturing Engineering Manager, a key responsibility was to address this...
Fred Stone’s grimace told it all. He was straight-shooting, no-nonsense plant manager at a leading automation company in the American Midwest, where poor third quarter numbers had worsened his already bad mood — the disappointing year was continuing… The...
