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February 2011 eNewsletter
Brad Muir Joins TCA

January 2011
Where Will 2011 Take You?

SigmaPoint is Awarded TCA's World Class Lean/Six Sigma Supplier Certification

Volume 1, Issue 2 Monthly eNewsletter
Read our newest publications and discover what is happening at TCA.

Volume 1, Issue 1 Monthly eNewsletter
From November of 2008

The Top Ten Secrets of Lean Success: How to Make Your Lean Implementation Work Part 2
Article by David Dixon as published in the September 2007 issue of Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine.

The Top Ten Secrets of Lean Success: How to Make Your Lean Implementation Work Part 1
Article by David Dixon as published in the August 2007 issue of Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine.

Advanced Lean Techniques: Moving Beyond the Obvious
Article by David Dixon as published in the June/July 2007 issue of Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine.

Lean Layout: Getting it Right
Article by David Dixon as published in the May 2007 issue of Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine.

Managing the Lean Transition: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Article by David Dixon as published in the April 2007 issue of Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine.

Building a Lean, World-Class Enterprise—a Question of Leadership
Article by David Dixon as published in the March 2007 issue of Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine.

Lean Thinking: Lean in the Job Shop
Article by David Dixon as published in the February 2007 issues of Fabricating & Metalworking Magazine.

Spring/Summer 2007 Newsletter
Lean in the Job Shop. Think "Lean" doesn't apply if you don't have a product line? Think again.

Fall/Winter 2006 Newsletter
Transforming the "LEAN" buzzword into practical application and results.

Coaching Teams for Success in Cellular Manufacturing
Article reprinted with permission from the June 1996 issue of The Fabricator

Gainsharing and Lean Six Sigma - Perfect Together
As companies continue to search for a competitive advantage in the global economy, they investigate a host of systems to improve operating efficiency: product quality, operating cost and most important, customer service. In their search, they may identify 2 approaches that have yielded particularly successful results. One is Six Sigma, more recently expanded and referred to as Lean Six Sigma. The other is gainsharing.

Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation selects TCA
TCA selected as Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation’s World Class Lean Manufacturing Resource.

Why Are These Men Smiling?
Transform that filthy, rusty plant covered in oil into a World Class environment that is pleasant, safe, and profitable. How? Clean to inspect! Inspect to clean! Detect to correct! Correct to perfect!

Managing in Turbulent Times
How do your company, managers, and employees handle rough economic times? How do ensure that your company survives?

Lean or Sales and Operations Planning?
Which one is the best choice or right path for your business?

Lean IT
Reprinted with the permission of the Institute of Industrial Engineers,
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Copyright 2004

Lean Administration — Lean Enterprise going nowhere

Quantity, Quality and Timeliness Measure World Class Managers

Production Management — Making World Class/Lean Manufacturing Work
By understanding the shop environment and developing a handful of tools, you can support the efforts of schedulers, supervisors, and team leaders in effectively managing the production floor. Production Management significantly contributes to World Class implementation success.

What Does My Golf Game Have to Do With ERP?
Just like new clubs, balls, shoes, and a plethora of golf gadgetry, numerous technology choices are available to manufacturers today: new equipment, machinery, manufacturing process technology, and computer systems. One of the solutions leading the list is ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning systems.

Extreme Lean

"Kind'a, Sort'a" Lean . . . So What Comes Next?
After a couple of decades of testing, Lean business practices are now widely accepted as a major contributor to extraordinary customer service and profitable operations. But with this acceptance has come a new leveling of the playing field in many industries.

Contract Manufacturing — Changes
Read how TCA has assisted Remmele in their remarkable change process from job shop to contract manufacturer.

Winning the Hearts of High-Tech OEMs
This article documents a World Class manufacturing case history in progress. It examines the company’s use of this technology to address immediate opportunities and to forge a competitive strategy for the long term.

Cellular Manufacturing Supports Marketing Strategy
Richards Sheet Metal, a 74-year-old, family-owned fabrication business in Ogden, Utah, faced the challenge of taking on new business while meeting an extraordinarily diverse set of customer demands.