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News Release from: American Technical Publishers | Subject: Managing flow
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 June 2002
How to make money by not wasting
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Managing flow is the secret to success," says author John Ballis. He describes the FlowCycle methodology, a system that is designed to guide every business to achieve a waste-less business.
A new addition to American Technical Publishers' lean bookstore is 'Managing Flow: Achieving Lean in the New Millennium to Win the Gold' "Managing flow is the secret to success," says author John Ballis
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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In Managing Flow, Ballis describes the FlowCycle methodology, a system that is designed to guide every business to achieve a waste-less enterprise.
FlowCycle is an execution methodology for successful change every day.
The methodology creates a path to continuously remove waste from every process to achieve the gold: long-term, profitable growth and expansion through increased speed and competitiveness.
It relies on four simple phases that result in increasing value and speed by focusing on companies' workflow value streams and non-value-added processes rather than reducing headcount.
It involves every employee of an enterprise in the journey for improvement every hour of every day.
FlowCycle uncovers and eliminates the waste in both non-manufacturing processes and on the production line.
In one plant, the FlowCycle methodology reduced the distance a product travelled from six miles to less than 200 feet.
Another company reduced cycle time from 14 days to two days, and at the Austin, Texas IBM plant, Ballis reduced the cycle time from 45 days to four.
Managing Flow provides step by step guidance to manufacturers on how to implement the FlowCycle methodology in their own plants to manage their work flow and create a waste-less enterprise.
Managing Flow is available through American Technical Publishers (www.ameritech.co.uk/productivity and sells for GBP 23.00.
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