LEAN MANUFACTURING -- Tuesday, Dec. 13

Remove cost from your production operation with the tools of Lean

Morning Workshop:  8:00 a.m.- Noon
• Hosted by SAS Institute Inc.
“Executive Overview of Six Sigma”
This course is suitable for people from manufacturing or transactional backgrounds. It is designed for executives working directly with champions, black belts, and green belts on six sigma breakthrough projects. This course includes an overview of six sigma concepts, required infrastructure, expected benefits, enterprise level metrics, and the DMAIC method for achieving breakthroughs in performance.

Workshop contents
- What is six sigma?
- Three elements of six sigma
- How six sigma fits into the company
- Integration of lean into six sigma deployment
- DMAIC roadmap
- Expected benefits of six sigma
- Management Infrastructure for Six Sigma
- Roles and responsibilities
- Executive staff and champions
- Black belts, green belts and all employees
- Business goals, objectives, and dashboards for Six Sigma
- Alignment of six sigma to business goals and objectives
- Dashboards use and purpose
- DMAIC breakthrough methodology
- Define, measure, analyze, improve, and control
- Implementation Issues and timelines
- Six sigma deployment model
- Project selection
- Black belt selection
- Reviewing progress and maintaining accountability
- Next steps

THREE Afternoon Presentations
•  Wright Tool:
"From Quality Circles to Six Sigma"
Content includes a history of this premier American hand tool manufacturer’s more than 30-year journey of continuous improvement from Quality Circles to its Six Sigma initiatives today. In the highly competitive hand tool market, this company knows what it takes to stay on top. Taylor is a member and past president of the Association for Quality and Participation. He is a member of American Society of Metals, American Society for Quality, American Society for Training and Development, and the Society for Manufacturing Engineers. He is a past chair of the excellence team of the Ohio Manufacturing Association.

• Whirlpool:
"The Top 10 Keys to Manufacturing"
The consumer centered manufacturing site leader from Whirlpool Corporation’s Findlay, Ohio, division will focus on the top 10 (or so) key things to do and to avoid in order to have a successful Lean manufacturing transformation. Key learnings gleaned from Whirlpool’s six-year Lean process and cultural transformation will be shared.

• American Laser Products:
"Lean Manufacturing Drives Turnaround at ALP"
ALP president Bill Henry, Sr., will explain conditions at his company before and after its lean transformation. He will demonstrate the results ALP achieved using Lean tools, and he will share battles won and lost, threats and pitfalls to avoid, and ALP's vision for the future.

Example
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ALP

SAS Institute, Todd Cook
Todd Cook has extensive experience in the areas of production, advanced manufacturing, and R & D, where he's held a variety of positions in engineering, engineering management, and production management. Some of his areas of expertise include Process Development, Process Characterization, Metrology Development, Statistical Process Control (SPC), and SPC software development. Todd performs classroom instruction in the topics of SPC, Design of Experiments (DOE), Defect Analysis and Reduction Methods, Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), Partition of Variation (POV), Six Sigma, and others.