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Total Productive Maintenance in China
What is Total Productive Maintenance ? Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is an approach to equipment improvement used to increase equipment reliability, reduce costs and improve quality. The main goals of implementing TPM are zero breakdowns and ze...
Six Sigma in China
What is Six Sigma ? Six Sigma is a management approach using a structured methodology to strongly reduce mistakes and variations both in operational and administrative processes. Worldwide, Six Sigma already proved that processes can be better stre...
TQM in China
What is Total Quality Management ? In order to describe Total Quality Management (TQM), it is important to first define ‘quality’. ‘Quality’ is most often defined as ‘the ability to satisfy or exceed the needs and expec...
Lean Manufacturing in China
What is Lean Manufacturing ? Lean manufacturing is a production system which requires less in terms of all inputs & resources. The basic ideas behind lean manufacturing are waste elimination and the enhancement of flow. Waste, or non value added...
Lean Office in China
What is Lean Office ? Although office and administrative activities account for about 60% of the cost in most manufacturing organizations and up to 80% in administrative service organizations, these areas are often overlooked during lean initiatives...
Project Management in China
What is Project Management ? Before we can understand Project Management and project-driven organizations, we must first understand the concept of ‘projects’. A project is defined as work that is temporary and produces a unique product ...
Lean Leadership in China
‘Lean’ was recently highlighted as a great idea that came about as a result of tough times.* And indeed, during the recent downturn, a lot of Chinese companies turned to the ‘lean manufacturing’ idea as a means to eliminate wa...
Article: Employer Branding in China
Fast-booming economy and rapid decline in population growth, creates a severe shortage of trained professionals in China. Changes to work environments, crippling skill shortages and an increasingly discerning workforce creates a growing awareness tha...
Article: Autonomous teams
Self-directed work teams lead to higher involvement Higher levels of autonomy and self-steering lead to higher involvement and motivation and is a natural way to use the skills of employees to a greater extent. The leader of direct reports als...
Better Balance, Better Business
Stanwick helps you with the design and implementation of a comprehensive stress-control policy. 1. Putting forward a correct diagnosis We help to discover the drivers of unbalance between workstress and employee’s resilience. By me...
Continuous Innovation
Hear and you will forget - Do and you will remember forever The Continuous Innovation (CI) Training is organised per “wave” of about 20 so called CI-leads. In a first 3-day session, focus was on getting to know the concept of Continuous ...
Process Optimization
By analyzing the process steps of the planning process, it became clear that a number of them had no apparent added value or were time consuming, or delivered the wrong output. In the end, we kept 4 essential process steps, automating parts of ...
Article: Tiense Suiker (Sugar Refinery Group)
Stronger by specialization This sugar refinery has guaranteed its perspectives by focused investments in the packaging departments and by reorganisation of the management. A number of years ago, the management team made a rational analysis of the p...
Problem Solving in China
An effective & efficient problem solving process A thorough problem solving expertise is very important to your organisation’s operating efficiency as it will result in faster problem solving and in avoiding unnecessary “quick&rdquo...
