LEAN Manutacturing in the Age of the Industrial Internet

One way to take lean manufacturing to the next level is to complement it with the principles of Six Sigma, which also seeks to eliminate waste by streamlining and improving all business processes, and removing variations within the process. The combination of the two is dubbed Lean Six Sigma. Manufa...

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Published inSupply & demand chain executive Vol. 15; no. 6; p. 24
Main Author Gates, Bob
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Fort Atkinson AC Business Media 01.12.2014
Subjects
Big Data
Data collection
Internet
Lean manufacturing
Manufacturers
Manufacturing execution systems
Six Sigma
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Summary:One way to take lean manufacturing to the next level is to complement it with the principles of Six Sigma, which also seeks to eliminate waste by streamlining and improving all business processes, and removing variations within the process. The combination of the two is dubbed Lean Six Sigma. Manufacturers can get more out of Lean Six Sigma techniques because of the explosion of data from todays connected machines that are enabled by the industrial Internet.
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ISSN:1548-3142
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