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List of Workshops and Conferences

Kaizen for the Shop Floor

Suitable for:  Factory managers, production managers and industrial engineers                            

As a workplace quality strategy, Kaizen has become synonymous with the concept of Continuous Improvement.  This seminar will explain how Lean change really happens, and the tools and methodology to be followed to ensure that desired improvements are attained and subsequent changes sustained.  The steps are known as Kaizen Events.

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Suitable for:  Factory managers, production managers and industrial engineers                            

In order to implement any kind of engineered process, a factory requires real engineering skills.  This workshop aims to help engineers restructure their functions on Kaizen principles, shifting the focus from daily tasks into Continuous Improvement mode and a Zero Waste Lean Environment. 

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Suitable for:  Factory and production managers, engineers and work methods analysts                

Modular Manufacturing where workers and equipment are arranged into U-shaped assembly cells instead of traditional production lines.  This seminar will cover the principles and methods used to convert to quick response manufacturing and how to evaluate and implement a variety of systems into the plant for better results.  Other topics include: advantages of the approach; expected results; how to determine the optimal number of employees per team; how to design operating procedures; laying out  responsibilities and rules; developing a planning calendar.

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Simulation in Modular Manufacturing

Suitable for:  Factory and production managers, engineers and work methods analysts                

What is simulation, why it is necessary, and how to do it are the all-important components of this seminar designed for engineers and managers.  Participants can evaluate real-life production systems in a variety of apparel plants and, in the process, learn steps that will enable them to create simulation and define differences in techniques and line set-ups.  Insights will be shared to help garment manufacturers avoid new problems and solve old ones leading to improved utilization of labor and machinery.

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"5S" Workplace Organization for Workers

Suitable for: Everyone

The benefits of Lean Manufacturing cannot be fully realized in a workplace that is cluttered, disorganized or dirty.  5S is a target list of activities promoting organization and efficiency in the workplace and stands for Sorting, Straightening, Shining, Standardizing and Sustaining.  This seminar is designed for those who work on the shop floor and ensures implementation of the 5S pillars at workstation level.  It complements the LM-011 Visual Control seminar which aims to eliminate time wasted due to disorder in the workplace.

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Mistake-Proofing/Quality at Origin

Suitable for:  Factory and production managers, industrial engineers and quality personnel.

In traditional manufacturing environments, quality inspections occur at initial receipt of raw materials and then with a sampling of finished products.  Although the checkpoints monitor output quality of each area, they occur too late to eliminate waste or correct for errors which result in unnecessary costs.  In Lean manufacturing environments, inspection (and product rework) is accommodated at any point in a product's life – as it is being produced – and is the responsibility of each worker at his workstation.  Quality is built in and it is an integral part of the product cycle, no longer considered as an external policy standard or requirement.  Mistake-proofing is another important in-process technique that is accomplished by monitoring for and making permanent changes to equipment, operations and procedures. 

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Visual Control & Point of Use-Systems

Suitable for:  Factory and production managers, IT personnel, maintenance personnel, industrial engineers and manufacturing personnel                                                   

In order to respond quickly to marketplace demands with flexible production set-ups and zero defect standards, managers and workers alike must be able to realize at a glance what is going on in their factories.  Visual control systems bring total alignment to common objectives and will help everyone in the factory to become involved in monitoring – and actively supporting - corporate objectives throughout the manufacturing process. 

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Quick Changeover and Set-up Time Reduction

Suitable for: Everyone 

Customers today want a variety of products in just the quantities they need.  Many factories take hours or even days to do a production line changeover – a major barrier to manufacturing flexibility.  Producing to customer requirements also means getting batch processes to produce in small lots, leading in turn to a critical need for reduced set-up times.  This seminar focuses on the techniques and approaches to developing a production system that gets as close as possible to making only what the customer wants, when the customer wants it, throughout the production chain.  

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Suitable for:  Factory and production managers, merchandisers, industrial engineers and planners.

Kanban means “information card” in Japanese and is an inventory control system for tracking the flow of in-process materials through the various operations of a just-in-time production process.  Kanban is the unavoidable nerve system of Lean production and is the last stage of the Lean set-up leading towards balanced pull production where need for a product or service is communicated.  Effective implementation reduces overproduction, wasted space, unnecessary labor and poor information and materials flow.  This seminar teaches the methodology for implementing Kanban throughout the production units and between all processes and operations.

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Creating Mixed Model Value Streams

Suitable for:  Factory and production managers, merchandisers, planners and industrial engineers

This seminar addresses the real world complexity of implementing Lean in a mixed model plant.  It is aimed at anyone trying to make improvements beyond a basic value stream map, from selecting a product family to scheduling or dealing with customer demand.  The seminar will teach participants how to implement a Lean value stream in a way that everyone will understand, to create flow through the workers when products have different cycle times, and to set up a loading and leveling plan that requires visual schedules at different intervals.

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Total Productive Maintenance

Suitable for:  Maintenance and mechanical personnel, industrial engineers

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is an initiative for optimizing the effectiveness of manufacturing equipment.  TPM is team-based and involves every level and function in the organization, from top executives to the shop floor.  The goal of TPM is "profitable PM" which requires the efficient and economical prevention of breakdowns and defects.  This seminar will teach the eight activities for implementing TPM effectively as well as understanding and mastering the four techniques of preventive breakdowns, corrective maintenance, maintenance prevention and breakdown maintenance.

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