Jordan Berkley

Author's details

Name: Jordan Berkley
Date registered: June 28, 2010
URL: http://www.apriso.com

Biography

Jordan Berkley is our green manufacturing expert. Despite his love of the environment, you won’t find him wearing tie-die and singing kumbaya. He likes green cash, and thinks that pollution is just too expensive for any of our pocketbooks. You’ll also see posts from Jordan on Cleantech topics, such as battery, solar or wind manufacturing. Peace out.

Latest posts

  1. Lean Success, Part 3: You Won’t Stay Lean if You Can’t Enforce It — April 5, 2012
  2. The Heightened Challenge of Disruptive Manufacturing — February 23, 2012
  3. Lean Success, Part 2: It’s not Lean if You Can’t Measure It — January 18, 2012
  4. Lean Success, Part 1: If It’s not Complete, It’s not Lean Enough — December 13, 2011
  5. Riding the Manufacturing Roller Coaster — September 8, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. BPM and continuous improvement were made for each other — 2 comments
  2. Is Packaging Waste? — 2 comments
  3. Manufacturing and Engineering Share Common Challenges — 2 comments

Author's posts listings

Apr 05 2012

Lean Success, Part 3: You Won’t Stay Lean if You Can’t Enforce It

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Lean Success Part 3: If You Want to Stay Lean, You Must Enforce Process Changes

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2012/04/lean-success-part-3-you-wont-stay-lean-if-you-cant-enforce-it/

Feb 23 2012

The Heightened Challenge of Disruptive Manufacturing

Just as the Impressionistic artists from the late 1800s sought to change the art world, Tesla seeks to disrupt the automotive manufacturing world

Disruptive manufacturers have higher stakes when it comes to producing at the highest possible quality and learning how to best achieve continuous process improvement.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2012/02/the-heightened-challenge-of-disruptive-manufacturing/

Jan 18 2012

Lean Success, Part 2: It’s not Lean if You Can’t Measure It

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There are three steps to achieving Lean success – second step is to be sure process improvements can be measured

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2012/01/lean-success-part-2-its-not-lean-if-you-can%e2%80%99t-measure-it/

Dec 13 2011

Lean Success, Part 1: If It’s not Complete, It’s not Lean Enough

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There are three steps to achieving Lean success – first step is to approach as a complete solution, covering all production operations and facilities.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/12/lean-success-part-1-if-its-not-complete-its-not-lean-enough/

Sep 08 2011

Riding the Manufacturing Roller Coaster

Roller Coaster

Manufacturing doesn’t need to be a theme park with scary, unpredictable roller coaster rides.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/09/riding-the-manufacturing-roller-coaster/

Jun 22 2011

Manufacturing and Engineering Share Common Challenges

Both manufacturers and engineers suffer from working in highly complex environments where point systems are the norm

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/06/manufacturing-and-engineering-share-common-challenges/

Apr 21 2011

What’s Your Energy Management Program for the Next 10 Years?

Visions of energy reduction initiatives are in the air. Recently, I had a conversation with a glass container manufacturer that was targeting a 50 percent reduction in energy usage within 10 yrs. Think about that – do everything you’re doing now, plus grow, while consuming half of the energy you are using …

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Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/04/what%e2%80%99s-your-energy-management-program-for-the-next-10-years/

Mar 03 2011

Is Packaging Waste?

Packaging materials need not always be considered waste. For some manufacturers, packaging is an integral component of their branding integrity, so must be optimized for recyclability instead of minimized for waste.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2011/03/is-packaging-waste/

Dec 02 2010

Now is the time for Maintenance 2.0

Long the step child of enterprise manufacturing systems, the importance of synchronizing maintenance processes with the rest of your production environment is now gaining considerable attention and scrutiny.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2010/12/now-is-the-time-for-maintenance-2-0/

Oct 20 2010

Do Manufacturing Achievements Translate to the CEO?

Last month we posted on the challenges manufacturers have with measuring and reporting results to their top executives based on a McKinsey Quarterly report. As if you needed any more convincing, the point has been hit home once more by Managing Automation in a recent post

Permanent link to this article: http://www.apriso.com/blog/2010/10/do-manufacturing-achievements-translate-to-the-ceo/

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