As part of the county’s strategic plan, Miami-Dade County in Southeast Florida launched a Six Sigma Green Belt DMAIC project to reduce the # of days to provide direct relief assistance payments to domestic violence victims. This project supports the County’s 2020 strategic plan under the following objectives: HS1: Basic needs of vulnerable Miami Dade […]
Many court systems lack basic data about themselves, including about their criminal-sentencing decisions. This means that when a judge considers a sentence for a criminal defendant, he or she has no way to evaluate it against others handed down for similar crimes in the same state, or even the same county. This variability in criminal […]
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Brevard County completed two Lean Six Sigma improvement projects focusing on inspection efficiencies. The goal was to make the process of home inspections as seamless as possible. After working with the Lean Six Sigma group and making some changes with their processes they have had the following outcomes: Customers can schedule their own inspections and […]
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Permit inspections are usually part of the long and arduous construction process, but the inspections themselves don’t have to be long and arduous as well. The Brevard County (Florida) Building Inspector recently completed two Lean Six Sigma improvement projects focusing on inspection efficiencies. Selected County employees were organized into teams to dissect and examine every […]
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by Brion Hurley The Sustainable Development division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) holds an annual service volunteer project with a nonprofit prior to each annual conference. For year #7, they decided to take on two nonprofits on the same day in Orlando, Florida on May 19, 2019. Rise Against Hunger – […]
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by Brion Hurley For the 7th year in a row, the board of the IISE Sustainable Development Division has organized a volunteer service project with a local nonprofit prior to the start of the Annual Conference, held for the 2nd year in a row in Orlando. Due to popularity of this event, they added a 2nd nonprofit […]
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by Brion Hurley Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief nonprofit organization founded in 1998 that distributes food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable, mobilizing the necessary resources to end hunger by 2030. To date, they have packaged 450 million meals in 74 countries. Related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, RAH’s effort […]
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The City of Coral Gables (FL) IT department worked together on response times and efficiencies with a Lean Six Sigma improvement project. The process empowered their team to look inward and outward, identifying opportunities that could make a difference over a short period of time. One initiative was to dedicate assigned IT liaisons to each […]
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by Brion Hurley Joe Hnat presents the volunteer program he setup at Collins Aerospace (formerly Rockwell Collins) in Melbourne, Florida. He worked with his facility using lean principles and methods to find space for an employee garden on campus and make it successful. The fruits and vegetables grown in the garden by employee volunteers are […]
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Since October 2015, Brevard County (Florida) Government has worked on institutionalizing Lean Six Sigma as a way to help create a better tomorrow. Leading the Lean Six Sigma initiatives out of the County Manager’s Office is Special Projects Coordinator Katherine Wall. Lean Six Sigma successes to date include: The Development Application Process: Successfully reduced site plan […]
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