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Lean Division Board 2009-2010
The mission of the Lean Division is to support its members by fostering networks, offering programs and maintaining resources that represent their core competencies and/or areas of specialized practice. 2009-2010 Lean Division Board
NEW First webinar in lean series
Title: Lean Pull Design
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 24
Time: 1-2 p.m. Eastern time
Presenter: Tom Knight, Invistics
Is your company interested in using Lean Pull Strategies to free up working capital, reduce expensive inventories and increase your operational profits? Numerous manufacturing companies have utilized Pull to produce tremendous cash savings. Tom Knight will discuss the challenges and best practices for implementing Lean Pull principles. He will show you how companies in various industries have freed up millions in working capital, significantly reduced inventories, and improved customer service by adopting Lean and Pull Design.
Space is Limited. Register now!
Award for excellence in the teaching of lean concepts
IIE Lean Division is pleased to announce the winner of the Third Annual Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Lean Concepts as the team of three faculty members: Andres L. Carrano, John T. Kaemmerlen and Jacqueline Mozrall of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.
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John T. Kaemmerlen
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The winning team has been developing and teaching a series of innovative undergraduate and graduate level courses on lean practice and modeling using experiential learning approaches in a production systems lab setting (http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/ise/facilities/ToyotaLab). The award committee has concluded that the above team deserves recognition for lean teaching excellence from leadership, contents and quality, applied learning, innovation, and student satisfaction perspectives. We would like to congratulate the winning team and thank them for their outstanding contributions to the field of lean system modeling and design.
The award will be given at the Annual Honors & Awards Banquet on June 7 at the IIE Annual Conference in Cancún, Mexico.
Lean student paper competition winners
IIE Lean Division is pleased to announce the winners of the fourth Lean Student Paper Competition sponsored by J T and Carol S. Black. The competition recognizes outstanding papers in the field of lean research and practices.
First Place goes to Mariza Siller, Taidé Sanchez, and Jair Onofre with the Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León, México for their paper, “Reducing Order Cycle Time through a TOC-Lean Approach: A Case Study.”
Second Place is awarded to Cecilia Martínez with the Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, for her paper, “A Coordination Mechanism for Lean Product Development.”
Third Place is awarded to Monica C. Villareal and Tuba Yilmaz with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta for their paper, “A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Rounding Process Lean Transformation.”
Awards will be given at the annual Honors & Awards Banquet during IIE Annual Conference. The first place winner will be included in the IIE Annual Award list. Winning papers will be presented at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) 2010 at a separate session starting at 2:20 p.m. June 8 in Coral Gallery 1A.
Feature article
Learning to see ... again!
By Rick Duncan
We all reach a level of inefficiency when we don’t get to practice the skills that have been taught to us or we have learned. I had been working with developing training materials and had not been around the execution end of the lesson plan in a while. When it came time to apply the lean skills to the process at hand, I had to revisit many of the things that I inherently knew but were no longer at the surface of the conscience mind. In short, I had to learn to see ... again. Full article
What's new
IIE Annual Conference 2010: IERC Research Sessions, Lean Systems Track - Update
June 5-9, 2010, at the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel, Cancún, Mexico
The track on Lean Systems at the IIE Annual Conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share research focused on the application of Lean Systems concepts to improve organizational performance. A large number of abstracts in diverse areas related to Lean were received this time. We are excited to announce that there will be 16 research sessions (almost 60 percent higher than at 2009 IIE Annual Conference) and a tutorial session under the Lean Systems track this year! Tentative agenda of sessions
IIE Annual Conference 2010: Applied Solutions Sessions - Update
June 7-9, 2010, at Fiesta Americana Grand coral Beach Hotel, Cancún, Mexico
Please join us for the 2010 IIE Applied Solutions Annual Conference in sunny Cancún, Mexico. Industry leaders will deliver solid application of time-honored methodologies that have proven results. They will introduce you to tools and ideas that you can discuss with your peers at the conference and take back to others in your company. Conference highlights
IIE Lean Division Town Hall Meeting
From 5:15-6:30 p.m. Monday, June 7
IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2010, June 5-9 in Cancún!
This is an opportunity for everyone to learn more about the IIE Lean Division and get involved with its activities. Come join us at the Town Hall Meeting!
Volunteers
The IIE Lean Division is seeking volunteers to serve on the various committees. If you are interested, please contact the division director, Ahad Ali or newsletter editor, Fazleena Badurdeen.
Submit an Article
The Lean Division is searching for new material to provide to its membership. See your article in the newsletter and on the website. The Lean Division Board of Directors strongly believes the newsletter and website provide a valuable service to our membership. Submitting an article
Blogs: Read the latest on these blogs and add your comments - Structural Waste and Of Pandemics and Process Flows.
Ask the Expert: The meaning of lean
About the Division
Lean Division Board
Volunteer leadership is the heart of IIE and its technical divisions. Contact Beth Cudney to find out how you can get involved.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Lean Division shall be to support its members by fostering networks, offering programs and maintaining resources that represent their core competencies and/or areas of specialized practice. Read the bylaws
Goals
Develop, maintain and disseminate a body of technical knowledge.
Provide a forum for technical networking.
Be perceived as the voice of the technical specialty.
Collaborate with IIE to support the mission of the Institute, provide member value and promote the discipline.
Work with the Networking Leadership Council to establish a set of metrics that track Society & Division activities.