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Improving Lab Performance with Six Sigma

Posted by Andrew Harte on 14 Jan 2011
Do you want to reduce lead times while improving productivity in your QC testing laboratory? Read the following case study to find out how.

Why can't my department get ahead and be productive

Posted by Andrew Harte on 30 Aug 2010

In operations where the short interval (e.g. daily or weekly) workload varies, the most common method of distributing the work is to share it equally between the available people. We call this method “available work through available people”. The consequence of this approach is that even low daily workloads expand to fill the day resulting in poor productivity. Carefully designed standard work can improve your department’s performance by consistently making the most out of people’s time. Read more »