{"id":914,"date":"2020-08-23T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/harare2020\/?page_id=914"},"modified":"2020-08-23T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:45:35","slug":"lean-six-sigma-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/harare2020\/lean-six-sigma-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean Six Sigma Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-style: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>IEOM Lean Six Sigma Competition<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>Sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolingtechgroup.com\/\">Tooling Tech Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The IEOM Lean Six Sigma Competition will recognize outstanding case studies in the area of lean and six sigma. Selected papers will be considered for the competition and must be presented at the conference. The paper will be judged based on the technical content and presentation. Winners will receive award certificates.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>Eligibility Criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\n<li>Case study must be related to real-life applications<\/li>\n<li>Practitioners or academicians can join the competition<\/li>\n<li>Papers can be industry projects as part of a course or co-op\/internship, or research projects done at the academic institution.<\/li>\n<li>The paper must be presented virtually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Important Dates:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Deadline for submission of papers: September 30, 2020<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Paper Guidelines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Authors must follow the IEOM paper guidelines (under Authors menu) since the winning papers will be published in the conference proceedings.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Submission:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Each paper must be submitted online: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/abstract\/index.cfm?ID=ITx8cpK\">https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/abstract\/index.cfm?ID=ITx8cpK<\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Judging:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">A group of academics \/ professionals will serve as judge. Scoring rubrics will be used for both parts of the judging.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Winners:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive award certificates.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; cursor: default; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-style: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Sponsor<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolingtechgroup.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1054 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/detroit2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Tooling-tech-logo-FINAL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEOM Lean Six Sigma Competition Sponsored by\u00a0Tooling Tech Group The IEOM Lean Six Sigma Competition will recognize outstanding case studies in the area of lean and six sigma. Selected papers will be considered for the competition and must be presented at the conference. The paper will be judged based on the technical content and presentation. 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