Posts by Beneva Group
The 4 Keys to Achieving Excellence
Like many of you, I’ve had a lifelong quest for learning and for trying to improve my own personal performance and drive excellence in my companies. Excellence is defined as “the quality of being outstanding or extremely good.” Synonyms for excellent and excellence are distinction, first rate, superb, blue chip, choice, first class, five-star, top…
Read MoreTime to Rethink Just-In-Time
Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory and manufacturing systems are management strategies that bases replenishment orders of raw materials and assemblies on production schedules, which themselves are based on real customer orders that are due at specific dates (even times). The objective is to increase efficiency and effectiveness by decreasing the waste associated with carrying more inventory than…
Read MoreThe Best Job of My Life
These are difficult times to be positive about almost anything, and certainly the nature of work is no exception. The lingering challenges of the pandemic on both the family and one’s professional life, many corporate disruptions across industries, economic instability affecting all of us, and the evolving “world of work” which has certainly become more…
Read MoreSMED; A Different Perspective
A lot of people already know about Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED), which is sometimes called Quick Changeover, and the traditional application of it. But anyway, I will briefly explain about the methodology and how to apply it. And then I will tell you about a case where I really had to turn everything…
Read MoreThe 9 Questions to Ask
Summary: Most companies preparing to launch an Operational Excellence Program do not take a moment to contemplate what their program is hoping to achieve, or even if what they are hoping to achieve is what the company truly needs. These 9 Questions, asked of all the right people, help to get your program properly aligned…
Read More“It was Like Whack-a-Mole at First”
Supply chain lessons learned from the trenches of 2020. Tony RodriquezMike BeauregardFEB 03, 2021 The COVID-19 chaos of 2020 forced many manufacturers to slow production and delay shipments. It ignited a struggle by health care organizations to equip ICUs, care for patients and protect their workers. Supply chain managers stepped into one of the most…
Read MoreHow leaders can use emotional intelligence to connect with all employee types
Figuring out how to effectively manage employees with different personalities and working styles is a critical part of emotionally intelligent leadership. BY HARVEY DEUTSCHENDORF 3 MINUTE READ Organizations have spent a lot of time, effort, and resources in recent years to find ways to motivate employees. From office perks, to personality tests designed to determine working styles and preferences—many employers…
Read MoreLet’s Celebrate Work
Lean thinking is about, more than anything else, rethinking, reimagining what work can be. John Shook JAN 14, 2021 We need to think about redefining work. Until we—anyone who wishes to bring about organizational change—redefine our business’s actual value-creating work, we haven’t made any meaningful changes. You may be able to create wealth through a variety of business…
Read MoreLean As A Habit
The fact that lean methods and practices are too often seen as “events” rather than “habits” is a common cause of program failure. Rick Bohan JAN 11, 2021 There’s a good bit of literature out there that reports on the high failure rates of large initiatives like a lean enterprise implementation. Do a websearch on…
Read MoreLean and Continuous Improvement 2020: 12 Top Reads in the Past 12 Months
Here are a dozen of our best read articles on lean and continuous improvement. If you haven’t read them yet, then what are you waiting for? Jill Jusko DEC 16, 2020 It is the end of the year, a time when we look back and review what content on IndustryWeek.com caught our audience’s attention. And…
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