Industry Resources

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Adam Zak Executive Search

www.leanrecruiter.com
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American LED-gible

www.ledgible.com
American LED-gible is a manufacturer of Industrial Electronic & LED Sign products, and distributor of other signaling devices. Products include Numeric & Alphanumeric LED Displays, Electronic LED Timers & Counters, Incandescent & LED Andon Systems, and Tone information systems. American LED-gible Inc. can also custom engineer units to fit your specific application.

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Brady Corporation

www.bradyid.com/visualworkplace
The marker leader in industrial label printers and other facility identification products widely used by lean manufacturers to create a visual workplace.

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Competitive Solutions, Inc.

www.competitive-solutions.net
Team building, balanced scorecard development, management training and leadership skills will improve your bottom-line business results. Our leadership training and employee training programs taught by Competitive Solutions, Inc. will give you the performance improvement you need to increase profits in today's highly competitive marketplace.

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Creform Material Handling System

www.Creform.com
CREFORM® is the original adaptive material handling system for companies looking to improve efficiency and maximize their workspace. We produce a broad line of plastic-coated steel pipes, fittings and accessories that let you build and modify versatile material handling structures that can be changed again and again to match your manufacturing needs.

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Flir

www.goinfrared.com
The World Leader in Infrared Technology
FLIR is a world leader in the design and manufacturing of thermal imaging and stabilized camera systems for a wide variety of thermography and imaging applications. FLIR's award-winning infrared cameras and accessories meet the most stringent monitoring and inspection requirements in the demanding manufacturing environment. Our handheld thermal imaging systems find problems, prevent unscheduled downtime, identify corrective action and improve plant safety, saving time and money in a wide range of commercial and industrial facilities worldwide.

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iGrafx

www.iGrafx.com
IGRAFX is a recognized leader in delivering Business Process Analysis solutions. We help organizations model, improve and manage processes and technologies that support, simplify, and automate their operations. Through targeted deployment of its components, iGrafx helps organizations deliver process excellence in a controlled, centralized and collaborative manner across functional boundaries, geographies and levels of maturity.

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Informance

www.Informance.com
Informance Powers the Lean Manufacturing Enterprise by delivering Manufacturing Performance Analytics in a seamless, intuitive and personalized manner; bridging the gap between the factory floor and the enterprise. Our industry-leading Manufacturing Performance Management solutions enhance continuous improvement methods and metrics such as Lean, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and Six Sigma.

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Ludeca, Inc.

www.ludeca.com
Preventive, Predictive and Corrective Maintenance Solutions including laser alignment, vibration analysis and balancing equipment, as well as software, services and training.

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LEAN Innovations

www.LeanInnovations.ca
LEAN Innovations specializes in high quality toolboards and other "Point of Use" tool storage systems. LEAN Innovations' products support all Lean Manufacturing initiatives including Quick Changeover/SMED, Kanban, TPM, Mistake-proofing and the Visual Workplace. Our toolboard is a high quality, square-holed steel construction that is complimented by a large selection of hooks, clips and accessories."

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Lean Supermarket

www.leansupermarket.com
Companies implementing Lean manufacturing techniques often waste valuable time, money, and resources searching for materials and tools to assist with their implementations. We found that to be our experience through 10 years of implementing Lean. Hence the idea for the Lean Supermarket was created. The Lean Supermarket offers a variety of products that support Lean manufacturing implementations all in one place and at a low cost.

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Lubrication Management

www.lmtinfo.com
LUBRICATION MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY, the magazine of practical machinery management, serves the business and technical information needs of engineers, managers, and technicians who design, troubleshoot, and maintain lubrication and fluid power systems and buy and specify lubricants and fluids. It publishes information on best practices for managing these systems and the industrial machinery and mobile equipment that utilize them.

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Maintenance Technology

www.mt-online.com
The premier business and technical information source for managers, engineers and supervisors responsible for plant equipment maintenance and reliability, and asset management. Join more than 50,000 technical and business professionals who receive Maintenance Technology magazine each month by filling out an on-line application

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Productivity Press

www.productivitypress.com
Productivity Press is the premier source of authoritative information on organizational improvement, offering the broadest selection of books and learning tools about lean methodologies, based on the Toyota Production System. Whether you are responsible for production, office and administrative operations or providing services, our publications offer you proven, practical strategies for increasing efficiency and capacity while eliminating waste. We are the leading source of materials for educating and training your workforce in Lean.

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Replenishment Technology Group

www.Kanban.us
Bringing Speed, Flexibility and Low Cost to the Procurement, Scheduling, and Replenishment Process.

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Shingo Prize

www.shingoprize.org
For Excellence in Manufacturing
The Shingo prize is named for Japanese industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo who distinguished himself as one of the world's leading experts in improving manufacturing processes. The Shingo Prize philosophy is that world-class business performance may be achieved through focused improvements in core manufacturing and business processes. The Shingo Prize recognizes organizations and research that is consistent with its mission and model with three types of prizes.

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The Visual Workplace

www.Visual-Work-Place.com
Visual Workplace provides you the tools, technology, and training you need to create your own in-house sign shop. Create visuals, 5S locators, tool shadow boards, floor graphics, safety signs and other visual control signage quickly and easily and at a fraction of the cost of outsourcing them.

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