The City of Irving, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, is one of five cities in the state and 89 in the nation with a AAA rating from both Standard and Poor’s (S&P) and Moody’s. And 95 percent of Irving employees say the city government is a good place to work compared to a federal […]
Rep. Raul Torres believes that Texas can save 20-25 billion dollars from its biennial budget if every department will utilize Lean/Six Sigma methods and he points to the example of the City of Irving, Texas, which Rep. Torres told me cut their budget from $188 million to $168 million while at the same time improving […]
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This video shows the Lean Six Sigma journey of the Water Utilities department with the City of Irving (Texas). After training the support team, they were able to successfully implement 5S on the service trucks. The improvements resulted in lighter trucks (saving fuel), more consistent setups on trucks (reducing training time), less time to fix […]
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