The Buker, Inc. organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies

 [January 30, Chicago, IL] Buker, Inc. offers a Visual Factory Course for companies on their Lean Manufacturing journey.  The Visual Factory Course is a one day event that defines the basic visual factory blueprint of best in class Lean Manufacturing factories.  The course focuses on the visual tools being utilized in Lean factories to drive continuous process improvement.  The Visual Factory Course focuses on:

 5 Pillars of Workplace Organization

The Value Stream’s Territory

Visual Production Control

Visual Quality Control

Communication and Visible Progress

 Michael Tincher, President of Buker, Inc., stated, “Many companies are engaged in Lean Manufacturing implementation, but most of them stop after some type of initial factory re-arrangement.  The Visual Factory Course is designed to help these companies implement the visual factory characteristics that are paramount to driving continuous process improvements.”

 The Buker organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies.  Since 1979 Buker, Inc. has worked with the best manufacturing and distribution enterprises in the areas of Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Six Sigma. Past and current clients include Rust-Oleum Corporation, Siemens Building Technologies, YKK-AP America, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific, PerkinElmer, Highway Technologies, Inc., Hu-Friedy Manufacturing Company and many others.

 For more information go to the Buker, Inc. website, www.Buker.com for free assistance to manufacturing questions (Ask The Expert) and a free download of the Lean Manufacturing Assessment.

 Contact:

 Michael Tincher, President

Buker, Inc.

800 Main St.

Antioch IL 60002

www.buker.com

847-395-3050

TWELVE ELEMENTS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING

Lean Manufacturing consists of three management areas made up of 12 elements. These areas are Technology Management, People Management and Systems Management. Each area includes four elements of Lean Manufacturing. The Technology Management elements are Structured Flow Manufacturing, Small Lot Production, Setup Reduction, and Fitness for Use. The objective of Technology Management is a “Responsive Business Environment. “ This means developing flexibility to respond to changes in individual customer demand, changes in marketplace conditions or to produce to customer orders of one or one thousand. In other words, produce the product when and how the customer wants it.

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The Buker, Inc. organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies

 [Antioch IL, October 15, 2010] Buker, Inc. offers three and five day Kaizen Events to jumpstart a company’s Lean Manufacturing efforts.  Kaizen is a primary source of change and sustainable breakthrough improvements for companies on their journey to best in class performance.  The Buker Kaizen Events focus on the following:

 Explain Kaizen

Understand and document the target work process

Evaluate the target work process (analyze waste)

Solve the performance issue

Act to improve the target work process

Institutionalize the process improvements

 Michael Tincher, President of Buker, Inc. stated, “The Buker organization has been assisting companies in their Lean Manufacturing efforts for 30 years with Kaizen as a fundamental component to generate rapid improvement.  The basic principles of Kaizen are to 1) spend no money, 2) add no people, and 3) reduce space, offers companies the opportunity to start their Lean Manufacturing effort with minimal cost and huge payback.”

 The Buker organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies.  Since 1979 Buker, Inc. has worked with the best manufacturing and distribution enterprises in the areas of Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Six Sigma.  Past and current clients include Rust-Oleum Corporation, Siemens Building Technologies, YKK-AP America, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific, PerkinElmer, Highway Technologies, Inc., Hu-Friedy Manufacturing Company and many others.

 For more information go to the Buker, Inc. website, www.buker.com for free assistance to manufacturing questions (Ask The Expert) and free downloads of white papers on Lean Manufacturing, Class A Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other World Class Manufacturing topics.

Contact:

 Michael Tincher, President

Buker, Inc.

800 Main St.

Antioch IL 60002

www.buker.com

847-395-3050

The Buker, Inc. organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies

 Antioch IL, October 1, 2010] In this new booklet, Lean Manufacturing Assessment, Buker, Inc. offers manufacturing companies the opportunity to benchmark themselves in their Lean efforts against the “Best in Class” Lean

Manufacturing standard.  The Lean Manufacturing Assessment focuses on fourteen (14) areas for companies to benchmark their Lean Manufacturing practices.  These are:

 Cultural Awareness

Structured Flow Manufacturing

Small Lot Production   

Housekeeping/Workplace Organization

Total Quality Focus          

Preventive Maintenance             

Pull Systems

Employee Involvement

Control Thru Visibility

Setup Reduction

Fitness For Use

Level Load & Balanced Flow

Lean Purchasing

Education & Training   

Michael Tincher, President of Buker, Inc., stated, “The Lean Manufacturing Assessment is not just for companies advanced in their Lean Manufacturing journey, but can also be used for companies wanting to start their Lean Manufacturing efforts by pointing out or identifying where to start their efforts.”

 The Buker, Inc. organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies.  Since 1979 Buker, Inc. has worked with the best manufacturing and distribution enterprises in the areas of Lean Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) & Supply Chain Management and Six Sigma. Past and current clients include Rust-Oleum Corporation, Siemens Building Technologies, YKK-AP America, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific, Highway Technologies, Inc., Perkin Elmer and Hu-Friedy Manufacturing among many others.

 For more information go to the Buker, Inc. website, www.BUKER.com for free assistance to manufacturing questions (Ask The Expert) and a free download of the Lean Manufacturing Assessment.

 Contact:

 Michael Tincher, President

Buker, Inc.

800 Main St.

Antioch IL 60002

www.Buker.com

847-395-3050

The Buker, Inc. organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies

[August 10, Chicago, IL] In this new book, High Velocity Manufacturing, Buker, Inc. presents the twelve elements of Lean Manufacturing and more are presented in a logical, common sense implementable approach to create a Lean Enterprise.  Buker, Inc. provides the proven methodology to eliminate waste and non value added activities in all business processes.  It outlines the step-by-step process to reduce cycle time of all business operations by 50-80%.

This book also provides a straightforward and easy to use internal assessment process to jumpstart your Lean Manufacturing effort.  High Velocity Manufacturing is a culmination of lessons learned from the Buker organization’s involvement in the first study missions to Japan in the early 1980’s to study Lean practices and from working with hundreds of factories worldwide implementing Lean principles.

High Velocity Manufacturing takes a company to the next level of improvement and unites process quality, process speed, response and flexibility to achieve rapid and significant business process improvements.

Michael Tincher, President of Buker, Inc., stated, “Over the years we have read numerous books on Lean Manufacturing that discussed elements of Lean, but we feel this is the first book on Lean Manufacturing that covers all the elements and provides an easy to administer assessment of where to begin your Lean Manufacturing journey.”

The Buker, Inc. organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies.  Since 1979 Buker, Inc. has worked with the best manufacturing and distribution enterprises in the areas of Lean Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) & Supply Chain Management and Six Sigma. Past and current clients include Rust-Oleum Corporation, Siemens Building Technologies, YKK-AP America, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific, Highway Technologies, Inc., Perkin Elmer and Hu-Friedy Manufacturing among many others.

For more information go to the Buker, Inc. website, www.Buker.com for free assistance to manufacturing questions (Ask The Expert) and free downloads of white papers on Lean Manufacturing, Class A Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other World Class Manufacturing topics.

High Velocity Manufacturing, 2nd edition is available at www.Buker.com for $32.95, plus S&H.   

ISBN – 1-57512-004-6

Profile:

Michael Tincher is President and one of two founders of Buker, Inc., a worldwide management education and consulting firm.  Mr. Tincher works with companies implementing Lean Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning & Supply Chain Management and Six Sigma business practices.  He has personally consulted with over 600 manufacturing and distribution facilities worldwide.  His clients have been awarded the Australian Quality Award, Ireland’s Supreme Quality Award, Malcolm Baldrige Award, Shingo Prize and Industry Week’s – America’s Best Plants.

Mr. Tincher has over 30 years’ experience in manufacturing management.  Prior to the founding of Buker, Inc., he participated in the development and conduct of worldwide Manufacturing Industry Client Education for one of the major accounting firms.  During his career, he served in a number of manufacturing positions for a construction equipment manufacturer.

Mr. Tincher is the author of three books: Top Management’s Guide to World Class Manufacturing, High Velocity Manufacturing, and The Road to Class A Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II).  He also authored the company’s Lean Manufacturing/Just In Time and Enterprise Resource Planning & Supply Chain Management interactive learning products.

Mr. Tincher is Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) by the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS), is a member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), and is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Economics.

Contact:

Michael Tincher, President
Buker, Inc.
800 Main St.
Antioch IL 60002
www.Buker.com
847-395-3050

A3 Strategy Deployment Links The Lean Manufacturing Initiative From The Boardroom To The Factory Floor:

A3 Strategy Deployment Links The Lean Manufacturing Initiative From The Boardroom To The Factory Floor

Virtually all of Buker, Inc. client companies are engaged in pursuing Best in Class performance through the implementation of Lean Manufacturing practices.  Linking a company’s senior leadership strategic direction to the execution throughout the organization is the use of strategy deployment and A3 planning and execution.

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