District Project Manager Bernadette Gronewold is the only green belt certified employee in the Albuquerque District, USACE. During the process of achieving her Green Belt certification, Gronewold's project goal was to reduce labor cost percentages on small projects in the District from the current average of 14 percent to 11…
The Warrior Medic Medical Treatment Facility prides itself on being the command's premier medical facility charged with delivering quality and safe patient care. However, recently the MTF has fallen below target performance on access to care, one of the U.S. Army Medical Command's critical objectives. Using newly developed Lean Six…
US Army Capt. Michael Smith, the material management branch deputy of the 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, was recognized for his article on improving Army aviation maintenance. As a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Smith realized that his unit was losing money because of how supply support activity clerks were…
Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma success stories and news from around the web for the week of October 24, 2016. Xerox and SpencerMETRICS Connect for Productivity Xerox and SpencerMETRICS Connect have teamed up to provide customers the ultimate power of on-demand analysis and automatic calculation of…
Continuous process improvement capabilities and Lean Six Sigma support Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital's (BAACH) mission by providing tools to identify areas of the hospital that need improvement and how to find solutions. Alongside the pressure the military healthcare system faces which includes providing quality healthcare with efficiency, Lean Six…
Lean and Six Sigma across the Army yielded a cost savings of $1.1 billion dollars in 2015. There were 1,374 projects submitted for consideration and just 10 projects chosen as winners which yielded the savings. What will the savings be like in 2016 and what kinds of projects will be…
Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma success stories and news from around the web for the week of September 12, 2016. Dynamic Recycling Dynamic Recycling is a full service IT company that reuses and recycles to empower better communities. Since the organization's beginnings in 2007 and…
The 21st Theater Sustainment Army Command won two Lean Six Sigma excellence awards last month, August 2016, from the U.S. Army's Office of Business Transformation. The awards are given after an assessment of units overall implementation of Lean Six Sigma and taking into account financial impacts of the units' improved…
Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma success stories and news from around the web for the week of May 16, 2016. Lean Six Sigma Team Improves The Turn-in Process For Global Combat Support System-Army The U.S. Army continues to use Lean Six Sigma to improve Army operations.…
Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma success stories and news from around the web for the week of February 22, 2016. Leaders Transforming Army Business Operations Army Lieutenant General Tom Spoehr once told Senior Army Leaders that Army Operations are comparable to a Fortune 20 Company. With…