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2021

Farming at Your Doorstep

In the near future, you could very well be munching on vegetables harvested from the side-facades of HDB blocks or plots of land below overhead train tracks and bridges.

Lean Thinking: Spurring Creativity at Shalom Movers

At Shalom Movers, four to five movers are deployed for each moving job. They would wrap, pack and then move the boxes to a holding area near the lift lobby before transporting the ...

S$6 Million Gift From Prima Group to Support Education and Research in Food Sciences at NUS and SIT

The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) today received gifts totalling S$6 million from the Prima Group, in conjunction with its diamond anniversary.

Lean Thinking at NHCS: Delivering Faster Patient Care

With over 120,000 outpatient consultations every year, the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) took on a multi-faceted approach in enhancing its patient experience under the ...

Transforming Everyday Work at Four Seasons Catering with Lean Thinking

Transforming Everyday Work at Four Seasons Catering with Lean Thinking Every day, it would take the team at Four Seasons Catering three hours to prepare and organise their ...

2020

SIT in Three Pivotal Partnerships to Grow Its Applied Learning and Research

Signalling its clear intent on growing its applied research and expanding its suite of higher education offerings, the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) today signed three significant Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) separately with key partners

AccTech Centre: Helping SMEs Innovate and Digitalise Accounting Processes

A joint initiative between SIT and Singapore Accountancy Commission (SAC), the Accounting Technology & Innovation Centre (AccTech Centre) is a resource centre that facilitates collaborations and catalyses technological and business innovation.

2019

Lean Practices: Streamlined Processes to Better Serve Patients at the National Heart Centre

"Go see, ask why, show respect", the words of Toyota Chairman Fujio Cho, are now famous as basic lean principles. As a recent participant of SIT’s The Lean! Project (previously ...

Lean Practices: Tightening Processes at Shalom Movers

Singapore Institute of Technology recently held its fourth CXO Lean Summit, an annual conference organised by Lean Transformation Innovation Centre (LTIC), the university’s focal resource centre where local companies can acquire knowledge and training, as

Driving the Future of Autonomous Mobility

True to SIT’s status as Singapore’s university of applied learning, an electric autonomous vehicle (EAV) has been deployed for the primary purpose of bringing the technology up ...