ACTLean Brochure

This brochure provides an overview on the available ACTLean Trainings and Services.

Lean Innovation Part 1 (CM Journal 2 / 2010)

This Issue of the Complexity Management Journal presents several articles about Lean Innovation

Lean Innovation Part 2 (CM Journal 3 / 2010)

This Issue of the Complexity Management Journal presents several articles about Lean Innovation

I always wondered what would happen if I asked my kids to explain the principles of Lean Thinking in their own language. Here's what they came up with:

The Card Factory is a short video clip showing how to apply Lean Thinking in the process of making this year's family Christmas Cards. Enjoy!

Operational Excellence (OPEX) in the Pharmaceutical Industry

OPEX is the basis for significant cost savings in the areas of maintenance, quality, and processing. This brochure describes how to evaluate your organizations TPM / TQM / JIT performance and compare it to the industry benchmarks.

The results of a benchmark study on the topic 'Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry' are summarized, analyzed and presented in this book. The study was conducted by the University of St. Gallen and the International Association for Pharmaceutical Technology. More than 100 pharmaceutical production plants in more than 20 European countries participated in the study. It was the scope of the study to explore their current status of production performance with regard to the principles of 'lean management'. The authors give a detailed overview of the results and present an extensive compilation of measures suitable to improve the operational excellence of pharmaceutical production plants. Seven carefully conducted and completely analyzed case studies and an outlook on the future technological development in the fields of pharmaceutical production give useful insights and enable to find and to make use of improvement opportunities in the reader's own operational range. Leading experts from management as well as research and development contributed to this first comprehensive account on operational excellence from the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry.

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In order to face a new market reality, Operational Excellence initiatives will build the cornerstones of future operations strategies in the pharmaceutical sector. The biggest challenge is and will be the engagement of people. The authors of this book point out that it will be the ability to make each employee think in terms of continuous improvement and change that will enable companies to overcome the organizations internal inertia and separate the winners from the losers. Leading managers, consultants and researchers from both sides of the Atlantic contributed to this second book about a topic that has already started to change the way thousands of employees understand and do their jobs. As an addition to the first book Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry which focused on the essence of OPEX, this book focuses on the managerial and organizational aspects of comprehensive Operational Excellence programs.

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