Waste Not, Want Not
By applying Lean Six Sigma practices, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools' Graphic Production Center was able to reduce its paper waste by 90 percent, resulting in potential additional revenue of $64,000 annually.
"When we looked at the data, we were our biggest enemy," Griffin reveals. "We had leading-edge equipment and it was running fast. We thought we were going to show Xerox or Toshiba something about what's wrong with their equipment. As it turned out, it was us. The biggest waste factor was the human side."
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