Manufacturing, ETC will be presenting a 3-part series, beginning in January of 2009. The series will focus on three areas of the manufacturing process that will improve your quality, efficiency and profitability. Attend all three classes in the series or just the individual ones that best meet your needs. Exact dates and locations will be established shortly; to be notified of these details by e-mail, please complete the form below.
The following are brief synopses of the three seminars in the series. For additional information, including details of the class, click where noted for each:
Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping is a technique used to analyze the flow on materials and information required to bringing a product or service from customer order to customer shipment. The process has been closely associated with LEAN and the TOYOTA Manufacturing System, the system said to have originated with the Japanese car manufacturer. It is also known as “Material and Information Flow Mapping.” Download the synopsis here.
The Theory of Constraint
This short workshop will demonstrate how, by using the proper measurements, you will see which products or processes are making money and which ones are not. Once we understand our constraints, by exploiting the constraint, we can turn products from money into money makers. Download the synopsis here.
They Call It System Dynamics
System Dynamics was created by MIT Professor Jay Forrester in the mid-1950s. Unlike others who study the world by breaking it up into smaller and smaller pieces, Forrester’s system dynamics looked at things as a whole. The idea is to understand how all the objects in a system interact with one another. The objects and people in a system interact though “feedback” loops, where a change in one variable affects other variables over time. Download the synopsis here.
