Sustainability - Lean Manufacturing Implementation at Dupont

“Lean Pull Design for High-Mix Manufacturing - Kanban Cards Are Not Your Only Option”

Presented by
Tom Knight
Founder & CEO, Invistics

Come hear how three major companies, DuPont, Bristol-Myers Squibb and CP Kelco, slashed their working capital 35% to 80% by implementing pull methods better suited than Kanban for their high-mix, high-variability businesses. In addition to discussing traditional Kanban, our presentation addresses several of the most common Kanban alternatives: generic Kanban, Drum Buffer Rope (DBR) and Constant Work in Progress (CONWIP). The presentation will discuss how these different pull methods were implemented with real-world examples, and help attendees understand which of these alternatives are best for their companies.


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In the twelve months following the launch of the company-wide Six Sigma effort, DuPont documented more than $1 billion in savings.  In the next five years, savings would rise to exceed $2.3 billion.  At the beginning of 2004, DuPont had completed 6,147 Black Belt projects and had 9,406 in the pipeline.

Reducing Manufacturing Waste, the Dupont Way
http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2001/12/17/reducing_manufa/

More detailed report on Dupont Way



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Sustainable Growth, the DuPont way.

Holliday C.
Harvard Business Review. 2001 Sep;79(8):129-34, 162.

Chad Holliday, chairman and CEO of DuPont, believes strongly in the challenge of sustainable growth and makes the business case for it: By using creativity and scientific knowledge effectively, he says, companies can provide strong returns for shareholders and grow their businesses--while also meeting the human needs of societies around the world and reducing the environmental footprint of their operations and products. In fact, a focus on sustainability can help identify new products, markets, partnerships, and intellectual property and lead to substantial business growth. Holliday describes how DuPont developed a three-pronged strategy to translate the concept of sustainability into nuts-and-bolts business practices. Focusing on integrated science,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11550629

Updated on 30 March 2020, 25 November 2013