Beyond Lean and Six Sigma

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Hagan, Joel J.
Slack, William G.
Zolin, Roxanne
Dillard, John
Date
2007-12Metadata
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Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Division at Naval Air Station Lemoore
achieved time and cost reductions using the Naval Air Command Enterprise
AIRSpeed program of Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints; but,
could changes in organization structure or management practices provide
further improvements? Organizational simulation software was employed
to test interventions that could reduce throughput time for the F414 aircraft
engine. A baseline model was developed and interventions were modeled
and simulated. The simulated results indicated that paralleling some tasks
could significantly decrease maintenance duration, while maintaining
quality. The intervention was implemented saving 26 days per engine.
Organizational modeling and simulation can identify and pre-test time and
cost savings over and above techniques such as Lean and Six Sigma.