2017 Blog Archive
MAMTC Receives REAP Grant (Press Release)
Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center First Entity in Kansas To Receive USDA Rural Development Grant Contact: Gary Hogsett, 620-779-0233, ghogsett@mamtc.com (July 5, 2017) -- Mid-America...
Lean Supply Chain
There are countless articles, blogs, white papers, presentations, websites, consultants and professionals telling the story about the benefits of Lean for your organizations operations. They all have...
Cyber Security in the Manufacturing Industry
Would it surprise you to know that the manufacturing industry is the second-most hacked industry? According the IBM’s 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index, healthcare is the most hacked industry...
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What is the Key to Lean Success?
“Lean is a set of beautiful ideas. Are we doing enough to get them across?” John Shook, CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute The effectiveness of lean ideas no longer needs proving: we now...
Supply Chain Foundations
Consider this: 100 percent of domestic manufacturers in the United States procure some combination of materials, components, sub-assemblies, and/or assemblies from other companies—they buy stuff. And...
Purchase Price vs Total Cost Of Ownership
I have written in the past regarding methods and discussions regarding how to optimize your supply chain. I'd like to take the discussion deeper into one particular area and make an offer I believe...
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Lean vs. Six Sigma
We are often asked, “Which improvement approach, Lean or Six Sigma, is better?” “What are the main differences?” While I know these questions have and continue to be debated by both Lean and Six...
MAMTC’s REAP Strategy for Kansas Manufacturers
You’ve undoubtedly heard about Win-Win scenarios, right? You know how they go – you win, we win, everyone wins. But when is the last time you were able to actually participate in a Win-Win activity...
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Speed versus Throughput
Remember the movie Speed from 1994? One of the more quoted lines from that movie was something like this – “Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb...
Stealing Shamelessly
One of the key concepts I learned very early on in my Lean training over 25 years ago was the idea of stealing shamelessly. Before any one gets the idea I learned and support an all-out theft of...
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