Innovation of the Week: Smartphones as Learning Tools
Posted by: meikah | 3 September 2009 | 7:23 pm
The Strait Times shares:
THE boom in ‘smartphones’, led by Apple’s iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago – and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge.
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The ability to combine audio, video, text and data files with an Internet connection to a central website has helped create a much-improved language learning device, says entrepreneur Chris Lonsdale.
‘The technology allows you to have all the elements in one place and gives you new insights (into how you can learn languages),’ said Mr. Lonsdale, whose app is a six-month course for Chinese people to learn English.
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Littelfuse Team Wins the International Team Excellence Competition for Lean/Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 22 June 2009 | 8:28 pm
Techno World reports:
Littelfuse Team Takes silver winner award in international team excellence competition for lean/six sigma process.
A continuous improvement team from the Littelfuse, Inc. manufacturing facility in the hilippines leveraged its Lean/Six Sigma process to garner Silver Winner Award honors at the 2009 nternational Team Excellence Award competition at the World Conference on Quality and Improvement, May 18-20 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
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Peavey Electronics Corporation Embarks on a Lean Journey
Posted by: meikah | 12 April 2009 | 7:48 pm
Peavey Electronics, manufacturer of musical equipment, gear, and accessories among others, is going into Lean Manufacturing.
The goal: to maximize efficiency among its 33 facilities and strengthen the organization’s position in the global marketplace.
According to Courtland Gray, Chief Operating Officer of Peavey Electronics:
“By embracing Lean practices, we can better understand the flow of production from plant to plant and come up with more efficient ways of doing business. Our goals are to apply skills efficiently, deploy freed resources where needed, and ultimately become more competitive. Peavey is committing to making a significant upward stride in performance in a short period of time, and that will benefit our customers, employees and community.”
It’s good to know that companies such as Peavey believes in lean principles. Indeed, lean and other quality initiatives can be applied to any kind of business whose aim is to improve its processes for a more efficient business model.
Filed under: Electronics, General, Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Peavey Electronics, Processes
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Samsung Continues with Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 21 September 2008 | 9:02 pm
For Samsung, Six Sigma is the key to their continuing success. They have a Samsung Six Sigma Model that has been improved and worked through these years.
Over at Business Today-India, R. Zutshi, Deputy Managing Director of Samsung India, is facing a challenging time in the face of an economic slowdown. To survive the crisis, R. Zutshi is making sure the following are working well:
- manage costs more effectively in the face of rising input costs
- manage cost by sustaining volume growth through increased productivity
- keep track of margins through sustained channel enhancement
- further enhance marketing – I know this for a fact, that Samsung has been all-out, 100% in their marketing.
- keep the The Samsung way alive: (1) launched up to 100 new product variants this year; (2) set up 30 new branch offices across the country; (3) optimising on specs of components in CTVs; (4) getting its vendors to apply Six Sigma in their production processes; (4) working to push sales volume by 30 per cent
