A policy of continuous improvement According to TR Cutler

A policy of continuous improvement According to TR Cutler The September / October of Time Compression Technologies magazine includes an article, "Lean Manufacturing: How is the market large? Lean Enterprise: How much bigger is the market? "In North America the main production joualist, Thomas R. Cutler (Cutler provided a detailed history of lean manufacturing including how the marketing of e-Kanban solutions are key to an effective lean manufacturing initiative. According to Matthew Marotta, founder of Datacraft Solutions, "We are not responsible for the improvements system as we lea about new best practices that clients ask us to include. Before Datacraft incorporates the request for review of lean buy an advisory committee to validate the value of good practices and the impact on the value of our community partners. A When that happens, that develop, test and deploy. "The hosting solution provides the customer with its own set of servers that are kept outside and outsourced administrators. All expenses for administration, equipment, teams support and software upgrades are included in the monthly service is less than the cost of hiring a system administrator. The value of an ASP is that manufacturers can buy "by the drink", low risk, and to see a rapid retu on investment. only inteet access is required. The non-ASP option leaves manufacturers investing a large sum of networked communication, personnel, training, application servers, consulting for system modification with all the hidden costs that come with it. The only drawback of using an ASP is the client is not the owner of the system (application), only their data. This conce tends to be the issue of IT as it wishes oversee all aspects of e-Kanban operation. The cost of waste and control is completely contrary to a Lean Initiative. While some ERP systems QAD, Factory Logic, works and supplies has some features of e-Kanban is not their goal , then the purchase of the ERP system manufacturers at a price more important, including all the price increases (and upgrade charges). From the perspective of Lean functionality and immediate recovery of costs can not be justified, unless that there is a plan for a manufacturer to replace the ERP system. Datacraft Solutions Matthew Marotta 800-819-5326 # # #