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Starting a Lean Education

QHow do we sustain lean in a contract manufacturing environment? I know people are the key issue. How do we go about doing it? Please recommend some good books or videos on this topic. Thanks,

A Kanban Alternative

QWe are in the process of defining a lean manufacturing system for an MTO industry. The key to this industry is that all the orders are unique items and are based on the customer specifications. How do we set up Kanbans for this industry? I have heard that other processes, e.g., CONWIP, can handle such a situation. Has the industry accepted the CONWIP philosophy?

Applying Lean in the Garment Industry

QWhat are lean manufacturing's general concepts, especially in the garments industry?
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David Alschuler

Principal, Industry Directions Inc.

David has been an industry analyst in the enterprise software sector for 10 years and was a software marketing executive for the prior 15 years. He currently follows manufacturing software solutions for Industry Directions. From 1998 to 2005 he directed the Enterprise Applications research teams at Aberdeen Group. Before joining Aberdeen, David held executive leadership positions including: VP of Sales and Marketing at Xchange, Inc., a leader in customer relationship management; SVP of Sales and Marketing for Work Management Solutions, a developer and marketer of project and program management software for Fortune 1000 IT organizations; VP of Marketing for leading PLM vendor Parametric Technology Corporation; and VP of Alternate Channel Distribution for Computer Corporation of America.
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