Servomex is an international manufacturer of gas measurement solutions providing products and services to different industrial sectors. Servomex is spread across the world but we have worked closely with the UK Technical and Service Centre (UKTC), which started its lean product development journey in 2014 and it has since implemented a range of practices across the business. This is also the year when the Servomex...
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Danfoss, one of the world’s leading suppliers of energy-efficient solutions, was founded in 1933 in Nordborg, Denmark. Since then, the company grew from a solo enterprise into a world leader in power hydraulics, cooling, drives and heating markets. [vc_empty_space height="15px"] Danfoss Trata, Danfoss’ heating segment competence center in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has pioneered and led lean product development implementations since 1999, when Allen C. Ward first visited their...
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LEMO, the world leader in the design and manufacturing of precision custom connection and cable solutions, started its lean innovation journey with the Top Management support in 2014, by firstly identifying the company’s core innovation needs and establishing an Innovation Task Force team. To support the implementation of lean practices across product development, LEMO developed the Innovation Task Force Framework and has been continuously updating...
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Organisations are continuously pressured to launch new products and services to gain competitive advantage and satisfy highly demanding global market. Most of this pressure is directed towards product development teams, where majority of organisations still follow traditional product development process. To minimize these challenges a shift in a design and development paradigm is needed and one of the paradigms that is becoming increasingly more popular...
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Munters is one of the world’s leading suppliers of air treatment solutions. The company was founded in 1955 and has since expanded from Stockholm, Sweden to more than 30 countries and employs around 2600 people. Munters aghort develops and manufactures energy-efficient climate control systems for the growth and development of agriculture and horticulture applications. Munters started its lean product development journey in 2011 and decided to...
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Virtual Obeya is a software developed by the Polytechnic of Milan to help product development teams to make better decisions through online visual management. Download the presentation to get to know more about the tool and to see where you can try it. [private][download#18#button][/private] ...
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Innovativeness and creativity are in our blood, but as we grow up we get caught in repetitive patterns, almost rigid mind frames and thinking processes. This is particularly challenging for organisations which rely heavily on the innovativeness of their products or services in order to gain competitive advantage. However, most of them still follow traditional product design and development processes, which are preliminary focused on...
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Airbus Defence and Space is one of three companies within the Airbus Group. In 2011, the company began to implement Lean Management with the support and involvement of senior management. To date, the company has focused on the implementation and use of Hoshin Kanri, Value Stream Mapping and Visual Management tools so as to improve the engineering capability throughout the organization. [private][download#3#button][/private]...
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