Below is a series of white papers designed to provide needed to incorporate lean automation, project management, and problem solving skills into your organization. If you have any questions or comments please contact us at info@setpointusa.com or 801-621-4117.
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Lean Thinking
...Coming Soon...Setpoint discusses key principles to guide your actions in becoming lean and doing more with less.
Toyota's 14 Steps to Becoming Lean
There are 14 basic principles that Toyota has followed to help them achieve their goals of being lean. Each principle fits within four basic categoris of Philosophy, Process, People & Partners, and Problem Solving.
Creative thinking is not as hard as you thought it was. Using the one or more of the 40 TRIZ principles can help get those creative juices flowing and have resulted in large companies like 3M & Disney finding new soloutions to their problems.
In finding the constraint in manufacturing lines or any task there is a five-step improvement process that exposes these constraints. Using the ideas from Robert Newbold in his book "Project Management in the Fast Lane: Applying the Theory of Constraints" Setpoint takes a look at how to apply the Theory of Constraints. Download the Project Management White Paper
Solar Industry
Currently, the world uses approximately 320 billion kWh of energy a day. With this type of use our fossil fuels will run out at some point. Setpoint presents a look at what the current state of the Solar Industry is as well as where it is headed.
Joe Knight, the CFO at Setpoint, is an internationally recognized financial author of the best selling book Financial Intelligence. He also teaches financial courses throughout the world to Fortune 1000 companies. Here is his take on explaining what has led us to the $700 Billion bailout. Follow this link for his take on what led up to the Financial Crisis. Follow this link for his take on Who's to Blame.
The 5 S's of Lean Automation YouTube Video
Setpoint talks about the 5 S's of sort, straighten, shine, standardize, & sustain. These were developed through the Toyota Production System as a way to move toward being lean. Follow this link for an explanation of the Toyota Production Systems 5 S's.
TWIT YouTube Video
TWIT means it "Takes What It Takes" and is actually a bad thing. With a TWIT mentality new innovations are not pursued because we are following the status quo. Setpoint talks about breaking the TWIT mentality and looking for better ways to do things. Follow this link to learn more about TWIT.
