When I was first introduced to Lean, I had no idea what it was all about or how this was going to work. Words such as Kaizen, Hoshin Kanri, the 5S’s and Bowlers were starting to give me heart palpitations every time I heard it.
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THE MANY BENEFITS OF DAILY MANAGEMENT
FieldCore recently implemented a new time management tool called Leader Standard Work. Leader Standard Work is the repetitive pattern of activities that represents the least wasteful methods of planning and controlling normal business processes. This helps employees by providing an overview of where they are spending their time and a way to hold themselves accountable to ensure that they’re able to meet their goals and objectives.
TEAMWORK GOES A LONG WAY
A combined cycle power plant located in the northern part of Mexico has a capacity of 1,008 MW, powering a great part of Nuevo León thanks to the gas turbines, generator and steam turbines located onsite.
BREAKING BIASES AND CREATING BALANCE THIS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AND EVERY DAY
At FieldCore, we believe that our company is unquestionably stronger because of the experience, perspective, talent and abilities that women bring to the workplace. That’s why as a company we’ve made great strides over the past years in building a culture of support and allyship for women to break biases, balance work and family, and grow in their careers.  Here we share the experiences of a few of our colleagues.
5 QUESTIONS WITH VALUE STREAM LEADER JEREMIAH SMEDRA
Meet Jeremiah Smedra, our Value Stream Leader, who leads FieldCore’s ground-breaking effort to implement Live Outage, an application which revolutionizes the paper-based process of outage execution which has been in place for decades.
Jeremiah’s career advice is: “Stay humble, read more, stay on your toes (not back on your heels), surround yourself with solid performers, and strive for excellence.”
Jeremiah’s career advice is: “Stay humble, read more, stay on your toes (not back on your heels), surround yourself with solid performers, and strive for excellence.”
BEHIND THE SCENES OF LIVE OUTAGE
Progress and Innovation requires effort, dedication and bravery to abandon the old ways and find new, better ones. We are proud of the work that the FieldCore IT team did in cooperation with multiple other teams to make Live Outage a reality.