Secora Lean Implementation Methodology
SLIM makes your business more effective and cost efficient.
SLIM provides an effective way to reduce operational waste, save time and costs and utilize valuable resources to capacity.

SLIM methodology addresses the following types of waste:
  • Transportation
  • Inventory
  • Motion
  • Waiting (Time in queue)
  • Overproduction
  • Overprocessing
  • Defects (Scrap, rework and inspection)
  • Lost opportunity
SLIM enterprise extends this concept through the entire value stream or supply chain: A highly optimized factory cannot achieve its full potential if it has to work with non-SLIM customers, suppliers, subcontractors, administration and infrastructure.

Secora will teach employees and managers alike to identify waste and non value added activities.  The Secora SLIM methodologies include traditional tools such as Value Stream Mapping which make waste visible to all process stakeholders, highlighting problems such as bottlenecks, inventories and hidden factories.

Whether in an industrial or transactional environment, Secora consultants will get their hands dirty working with the people who actually do the job. Only this way can the real facts be gathered and the correct improvement steps implemented.  Through multi-level practical involvement, Secora enables and encourages employees to continuously improve their business processes.

What Makes a Good Project Charter?

The main output of the define phase within the DMAIC methodology is the project charter. Without having a completed project charter starting the measure phase makes little sense. Even so the DMAIC methodology gives us our project path, the project charter is responsible for where the path is to lead us.
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Essential Elements of a Good Project Charter

Sean Rast writes for iSixSigma magazine about the project charter. This article breaks the project charter into it's key components and offers tips for documenting project parameters effectively.
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Continuous Improvement in the Service Sector

Continuous improvement process (CIP) programs have traditionally been employed for quality improvement in manufacturing industries. Today service firms and service functions within almost every sector, are also using some sort of continuous improvement methods to boost performance. This paper presents guidelines for the application of CIP programs to service functions.
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