Twin Cities’ Habitat for Humanity ReStore first opened in 2008 in New Brighton, Minnesota. First, they outgrew their building. Then in 2015, they added Vonigo’s donation pickup software. By 2016, they added a second location and a second truck, and increased their donations by 170% overall. Here’s how they did it. Rapid Growth Made Possible […]
by Brion Hurley For the 6th year in a row, the Sustainable Development Division of IISE coordinated a volunteer event prior to the annual conference. The event took place at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Orlando, Florida on May 19th, 2018. The group of systems and industrial engineers and lean consultants made progress on key […]
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by Brion Hurley Learn about the employee-led improvements taking place at reuse nonprofit organizations Free Geek and The Rebuilding Center, with coaching and assistance from Lean Portland, a volunteer Benefit company of Lean consultants in Portland, Oregon. Free Geek is working on a daily management system and trying to increase the number of laptops they are […]
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A partnership between Frankfort Toyota and the Toyota Christian Fellowship at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) came together to help Foster families prepare for the new school year. Their goal, provide 250 backpacks for local school children and distribute to families in surrounding communities. In the video, they established some documents to make sure the […]
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by Brion Hurley The 4th annual IISE service project was held on May 21, 2016 at the Habitat for Humanity Restore in Anaheim, CA. We had a great turnout, 20 volunteers! We actually had to turn people away due to the interest level, so we’ll consider that into our plans for next year. It’s a good […]
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Holland Rescue Mission was struggling to keep up with their donations, and needed to find a way to do the work more efficiently. The donations are sold, which generate funds to support their nonprofit. They connected with local chair manufacturer Haworth. They provided some volunteer experts in the Haworth Management System (HMS) to help them […]
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Employees at the Moline (IL) Goodwill of the Heartland donation facility achieved success after a 5S event. The goal was to improve the layout of the backroom, streamline the hard and soft goods production, and make a dramatic improvement to the clutter and mess of the area. Hard goods material movement reduced by 70% with […]
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Cedar Rapids (IA) Goodwill of the Heartland employees worked on a 5S event to improve the layout, organization and movement of donations through their west side facility, using a 5S event format. The team reduced hard goods material movement by 42% with a new layout, and reduced soft goods processing movement by 30%. Download the event […]
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At this year’s conference in Montréal, the Sustainable Development Division along with West Monroe Partners, an international consulting firm with an IE oriented practice based in Montréal, coordinated a volunteering event for the Saturday before the conference. This volunteering event served as an opportunity to give back to the community that hosted our annual IIE […]
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A Six Sigma project was conducted with the Fort Worth Habitat for Humanity (now called Trinity) to reduce the cycle time from Final Inspection to Permanent Electric Meter being set for new homeowners. The goal was to reduce the time from an average of 15 days down to 10 business days, to reduce the homeowners […]
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