Lantech: Company Analysis

The radio station is REAL 92.3, and has been in existence since 1952. There, it operated as “KFAC”, a classical music radio station until the summer of 1989, where it was bought by Evergreen Media. It was then changed to “KKBT 92.3 The Beat”, and played adult rock, dance music and adult contemporary. The changed station failed, and went through a number of other genres before developing into urban contemporary in 1991. In 1999, the company that owned the radio station merged with Clear Channel Communications Inc. and was renamed “KCMG Mega 92.3”. At this point KCMG Mega 92.3 had moved from playing urban contemporary to urban oldies and finally to AC oldies. The station would not become known as “REAL 92.3” until February of 2015, when iHeartMedia, the holding company of Clear Channel Communications Inc., announced that the station would go back to being urban contemporary.

Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything than in mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment tools and less engineering time to develop a new product. A company becomes lean by continuously increasing its capacity to produce high-quality goods while simultaneously decreasing

“Lean is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste (non-value-added activities) through continuous improvement by flowing the **product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of perfection.” Lockwood [24].

Benefits of lean production - Competitive advantage through efficiency - Aldi | Aldi case studies, videos, social media and information | The Times 100. 2013. Benefits of lean production - Competitive advantage through efficiency - Aldi | Aldi case studies, videos, social media and information | The Times 100. [ONLINE] Available at: http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/aldi/competitive-advantage-through-efficiency/benefits-of-lean-production.html#axzz2htMjOW41. [Accessed 12 November 2013]

Kelly Services is a company that provides a wide range of experienced work force to temporarily staff developing companies or assist companies that are experiencing low manning. Kelly Services’ employees are experienced and well educated. We have a wide range of experienced engineers, mechanics, pharmacists, and very motivated labor workers. We believe that Germany would be the best country to focus our attention on because of the skill we have to offer. Germany is responsible for $1.5 trillion worth the exports globally. The $1.5 trillion includes vehicles, machines (engines and pumps), electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, plastics, aircraft, aircraft parts, oil, iron, steel, and organic chemicals. (Workman, 2015) Because of Germany’s wide range of exports globally, there are always companies being built to keep up with the demand. Germany’s scientists are also working hard to invent new machines to replace labor workers in order to cut down on the costs for running their industries.

In the 1950s Toyota came up with the idea of lean thinking which is a set of functioning ideas and techniques that helps generate the greatest importance for individuals by decreasing waste and delays” (Feeney, 2015). The purpose of this systematic approach was to change the establishments thought process and value, which would eventually lead to the conversion of the

This study will examine Wilmott Dixon Group, a construction company and conduct a case study on how the company began, its growth, market, life cycle and will conduct a SWOT and Pestel Analysis. This work will further state a five-year development plan for the company to move forward in a sustainable and fair trade market.

StaffSoultions Inc. Inc. was formed 31 October 2003, by the President Donald Edwards in the City of Alexandria, Virginia. The goal of StaffSoultions Inc. was to raise revenue through Government Contracting. Our Mission Statement is as follows: StaffSoultions Inc. mission is to use our extensive personal knowledge to deliver tangible business results, enabling our clients in industry and government to profit from the advanced use of technology. We strive to build long-term client relationships based on mutual trust and respect.

Loblaw Companies Limited is the leader of Canada’s food and pharmacy, their independently-operated stores, food and household products as well as pharmacies can be found in every Canadian’s neighborhoods.

The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) is a Fortune 100 company as of the year 2009 that primarily sells life and property insurance to its 7.7 million members, which consists of active and retired military personnel and their family members (www.biz.yahoo.com). They also offer such services as banking and investment management, focused on helping military persons to manage their money wisely and offer them services at reasonable costs with low interest rates. As of 2009, the company employees 21,500 people and competes in the industry of property and casualty insurance against other companies such as MetLife, State Farm, and

lean production. This is backed with determination, dedication as well as attention. This has seen to it that the company is effective and in time in production. The same is also applied in purchasing activities. Three main positions are in place to oversee purchasing, production and repairing equipment (Dilger, 2009). In terms of technology, RIM is one company that has well, constructed plans of adopting new technological innovation. The IT department has human resource that is well acquitted to issues relating to ensuring that technology is adopted in a successful manner. The company has numerous strengths that make it stay competitive. Through its business strategy of business to customer, it has managed to build customer loyalty. This has

Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything than in mass production: less human effort, less manufacturing space, less investment tools and less engineering time to develop a new product. A company becomes lean by continuously increasing its capacity to produce high-quality goods while

Autotech company is an automotive manufacturing and supply company. It has started its business as a family business. Nowadays it is one of the fast growing automotive companies. Currently it is facing complex operation of its business as it keeps all records such as billing, inventory, personnel, customers, products, stock, financial etc. in hard copy format such as files, note, books etc. It is very tough to maintain files, papers, notes manually for an extensive time, which is time consuming, costly as well not accurate as paper work is required more time and their maintenance cost is more than soft copy storage and maintenance. As per my point of view, Autotech needs to develop Information Systems in its business to make easy and

Lean is defines the manufacturing philosophy that reduces the time between the shipping and customer demand, which based on the systematic method by eliminating waste, that means giving the customer what they want when they want it, and don 't waste whatever. Rahmana, Sharif and Esa (2013) suggested lean production is mentioned to improve the company 's performance from the philosophy in reducing waste in order. That means, lean system destination is the decrease cost by removing the non-value activities, which they are applying a category of tools and techniques for checking and eliminating defective in the production process. In the Evenort Company should emulate the five overriding principles of lean thinking in terms of implementing lean that there is guarantee the company has been driving correctly in the lean manufacturing (Cardiff 2015) as can show in table 1.

Lean manufacturing originated long before Toyota and Ford, however the thought that it originated with Toyota is flattering since they are the ones who perfected it. By creating the Toyota Production System (TPS), Toyota found a better way to produce large quantities of product efficiently with eliminating the waste factor and while cutting down cost. Taiichi Ohno a former Toyota vice president promoted the idea of JIT (Just-in-Time) which means “producing the necessary units in the necessary quantities at the necessary time.” (Monden) Which leads to Toyota’s ultimate goal in the TPS is to improve productivity for better return in investment. To have continuous flow in a production system Toyota sought out to achieve the concept of JIT and autonomation . Since the TPS is what creates the parts who monitors the JIT system? The kanban system which is an informational system that controls quantities being produce in each process. As the discussion carries on throughout this paper about Toyota and their use of the kanban system the topic