In this two-hour online training session, instructor and Lean master consultant Wes Waldo will cover two fundamental concepts that enable leaders to achieve accountability throughout their organization: Leadership 5S and Genba Level Accountability. Earn continuing education credits too....More
In this two-hour online training session, instructor and Lean master consultant Wes Waldo will introduce you to three key concepts that will enable you to effectively provide alignment throughout your organization: Genba Leadership, Leadership Standard Work, and the Tool Map. Earn continuing education credits too....More
The Lean journey encounters many obstacles during its various phases, most of which can be attributed to old, often invisible organizational structures fighting a new strategy. Bruce's presentation offers a unique perspective of the Lean journey that exposes the obstacles in a context that enables their removal....More
Lean management is not a change methodology. It is a destination, a desired set of practices and culture. How you get there will determine the outcome....More
What's the riskiest move a company can make today? Doing the same old, same old. Hugging the status quo. Staying the course in spite of a changing marketplace. In a world economy that can flip in a nanosecond, thinking that the future will follow the past is the fast road to obsolescence. What's the antidote? Igniting your company's creativity. Finding new routes to growth, profitability and innovation with Josh Linkner....More
Hear James Womack talk about purpose, process, and people as the keys to implementing and sustaining a true lean management system and as the essential metrics for evaluating lean efforts. He will note that the best lean tool a manager can have is a good pair of shoes for walking his or her value streams. The reason: Managers and executives must learn to think "horizontally" across functions in order to understand and improve the flow of value to customers....More
"What's wrong? I'm not getting the results promised from this supply chain transformation." I can't tell you how many times I have heard this phrase in some form or another over the past few years. Here's the secret to success -- change management done ......More
In this keynote session at the 2010 IW Best Plants Conference, Kathy Miller, vice president, lean enterprise and quality, will discuss Cleveland-based Parker Hannifin's lean journey in a highly decentralized global organization. She will detail the impact of a comprehensive lean implementation on the company performance and reputation....More
Lean manufacturing has more to do with leadership and basic management than it has to do with the application of lean tools. Many companies overly focus on the application of lean tools and forget about the most important and basic aspects of lean. The power and results of lean cultural
transformation is achieved thru improved leadership from frontline supervisors and back. This presentation talks about E-Z-GO's journey from a poor performing plant to a 2009 IndustryWeek Best Plant and a 2009 recipient of the Shingo Prize....More
Seven in 10 workers say their firms have undergone major reorganizations in the last five years -- and their senior managers say the changes have meant challenges to morale, productivity, customer service, and profit. But the negatives can be offset by ......More
It's not just weak, poorly managed companies that are vulnerable to the competitive pressures spawned by technological change. "Well-managed companies that have their competitive antennae up, listen astutely to their customers invest aggressively in new ......More
Dialogue introducing new forecasting study on what the economy might look like in 2025 with a manufacturing resurgence. Video from the Aspen Institute....More
Manufacturing makes America strong. It makes families and communities strong. It provides national security. It gives us energy security. And for the 12 million men and women who work in manufacturing, it gives us pride....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers.com demonstrates how Big Data is transforming the business and industrial worlds and enabling new technologies and new breakthroughs that will help manufacturers work more efficiently than ever before....More
Beyond an initial novelty, 3D Printing could have a game-changing impact on consumer culture, copyright and patent law, and even the very concept of scarcity on which our economy is based....More
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates the inner workings of additive manufacturing machines and provides some real-life examples of how 3-D printing technology could dramatically change the manufacturing and retail industries as we know them today....More
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab break down the engineering and design challenges they faced during the Curiosity rover's complicated landing near the Martian equator on Aug. 5, 2012....More
