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Celebrating 30 years of S A Partners

We are 30 years old and we are celebrating just how far we have come.. from our early years as a spin-out from Cardiff University’s Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) our founders Peter Hines & Paul Morris founded a company that now has a global team and offices in the UK, Ireland, Germany, the USA, […]

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Jeff’s Bloopers
Jeff Williams is a partner at S A Partners, and also the head of our Food & Drink sector. He's directed some fantastic CI interventions at clients all over the world who've provided excellent testimonials as a result, but occasionally things don't always go to plan. This was certainly the case during Jeff's recent filming [...]
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Greg Wallace Does Line Balancing

Lean exercises don’t have to be dull. This Line Balancing exercise, which uses a parody of the BBC’s cult TV series Master Chef, looks at how you could produce a meal every 2 minutes in a given environment. Using Line Balancing Analysis, can you solve this one?

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Big Picture Mapping & Creating a Future State Exercise, Free Download
Lowcost European Airways Nelson Your Airline LEAN (Low-cost European Airways Nelson) has just been awarded the very lucrative Cardiff To Anglesey daily passenger air service. As a stipulation of the contract you must make 4 return flights per day between the hours of 6am and 11 pm at night. You cannot fly at night as [...]
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Free Big Picture Mapping Exercise Download

This free to download exercise looks at Big Picture Mapping:- Create a big picture map Identify opportunities for improvement Quantify the features of the current state Identify opportunities for improvement Develop a roadmap for improvement Identify the features of the future state map Create a future state map To download this free exercise simply click […]

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