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How Can Managers and Leaders Improve Efficiency in a Manufacturing Environment?

Strategy Driven

Managers and leaders play a prominent role in any organization. Effective managers and leaders should embody the values and mission of the organization and ensure that these values are reflected in the wider workforce. In this article, there is a focus on managers and leaders who work in a manufacturing environment.

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Building Blocks for a Customer-Centric Culture

Lead Change Blog

We were meeting with the CEO of a successful chemical company. Price and product quality have, for this industry and many others, become mere table stakes. “We Bell is a senior partner with The Chip Bell Group in Dallas, Texas, a renowned keynote speaker, and the author of several best-selling books including "Managers as Mentors."

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How to Maintain Quality While Expanding Your Lawn Care Business

Strategy Driven

Take a look at some of our suggestions below and make sure expansion doesn’t come at the expense of quality. While not necessarily standard in all lawn care software, some of the more advanced iterations will even allow you to track chemical usage. There are plenty of ways to make sure your company stays on track as it grows.

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The Importance of Cleanliness in Your Manufacturing Facility

Strategy Driven

With a variety of nooks and crannies for the dust and dirt to settle in, hard-to-clean equipment and machinery, and chemicals and particles in the air, a broom and dustpan just will not cut it. A clean facility is essential for the health and well-being of employees and the quality of your product. Boosts quality control.

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Why London Businesses Should Think About Making the Switch to Green Cleaning

Strategy Driven

A common misconception is that green cleaning products just don’t work as well as chemical cleaners. It is also a frequent error that people believe you need harsh chemicals to kill germs and bacteria. Green Cleaning Produces The Same Results. This is usually down to the lack of soap bubbles generated during lathering.

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A Brief History of Quality, Part 1 – “Time has no divisions to mark its passage…”

Deming Institute

On several occasions in my 30+ years of employment in the aerospace industry, I have witnessed industrial chemicals in full use right up to their respective expiration dates, and then banned from use and tagged for immediate disposal with the passing of the expiration date. In other words, it has zero thickness.

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Rethinking Statistics for Quality Control with George Box

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). George Box shared a presentation on Rethinking Statistics for Quality Control at our 2008 Deming Institute Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. In the presentation George discusses how to look at data from a process.

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