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Title: Unlocking New Growth for Your Manufacturing Company Using the Web & Social Media
Presenter: Andrew Schiestel, Senior Partner, tbk Creative
Synopsis: During this customized 50-minute webinar, participants will learn how manufacturing companies and their vendors can use the Web and social media to grow their brands. Attendees will learn: the important basics of social media; how social media for B2B is different from B2C; how to have your website capture new leads; social media advertising overview; the power of blogging; and HR recruitment tips.
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Title: The Next Great Process Improvement: Your Product
Presenter: Nicholas P. Dewhurst, Executive Vice President, Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc.
Synopsis: Process improvement approaches such as lean, six sigma and supply chain management have helped companies save millions of dollars. That’s clear. But would an added focus on the product allow these process tools to yield even greater savings? |
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Title: Innovating Product Design with Value Engineering & 3P
Presenter: Tom Voss, Operations Director, Franklin Products Inc.
Synopsis: Learn about the step-by-step process Franklin Products used to reduce its lead time from concept to production. After this webinar, attendees walk away with more information on: basic tenets of value engineering, REAL production preparation process (3P), product strategy goals and how to organize a development team. |
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Title: The Architecture of the Manufacturing Enterprise
Presenter: William A. Estrem, PhD, Principal, Metaplexity Associates
Synopsis: This webinar presents a conceptual overview of the role of enterprise architecture in the contemporary manufacturing enterprise. Attendees learn about the processes that can be used to implement an effective enterprise architecture, which addresses the needs of a typical manufacturing enterprise. It will also position enterprise architecture with other enterprise planning techniques and illustrate how it can effectively augment those techniques by enhancing the alignment of technology and information resources to meet the needs of the enterprise. In addition, how enterprise architecture can foster and facilitate innovation in the manufacturing enterprise is highlighted. |
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Title: How to Avoid Kaizen Event Malpractice
Presenter: Mark R. Hamel
Synopsis: Mark Hamel, author of the Shingo award-winning "Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Work for Effective Events," will share his insights on kaizen events during this Hartford No. 7 chapter-sponsored webinar. He will present case studies demonstrating common pitfalls of kaizen events and some ways in which to make them more successful. |
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Title: Sustainable Manufacturing Information Service Project Update
Presenters: Delcie R. Durham, PhD, FSME, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida; Silvia Leahu-Aluas, MSME, MBA, Founder and Owner, Sustainable Manufacturing Consulting; and Eileen P R Burstein, MSME, Consulting Engineer and Co-Owner, TIPE LLC
Synopsis: As businesses go GREEN, SME is sponsoring activities so that its members can lead the way in establishing sustainable manufacturing processes and practices. One of the initiatives of the Lean to Green Sustainability Tech Group is the Sustainable Manufacturing Information Service (SMIS) project. The presenters will introduce the concept of sustainable manufacturing, its current state of development and adoption by manufacturing companies. The speakers will discuss how the SMIS project was started, what are its objectives, the timeline for launch, testing and maintenance. This project is linked to developing a Sustainable Manufacturing Community of Practice, first among the lean community and subsequently among the larger SME community. |
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Title: Green Manufacturing — Lessons from Henry Ford
Presenter: Bill Levinson, CMfgE, PE, Owner, Levinson Productivity
Systems PC
Synopsis: This webinar focuses on green manufacturing, and specifically its enormous success at Ford Motor Co. during an era when Henry Ford could have legally dumped into the river whatever waste he couldn't send up the smokestack. Ford's approach underscores the kind of thinking that should go into green manufacturing, including the need to find a use for everything, avoid the waste involved in packaging and minimizing shipping costs. |
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Title: Lean Simulation: "Test-Fly" Changes to the Operation
Presenter: Jim Curry, CEO, OpStat Group Inc.
Synopsis: This presentation will focus on a case study of a high-mix plant in which a lean team used simulation to test process changes needed to convert from a push process to a demand-driven pull process, before implementing them in the actual work environment. |
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Title: Norman Bodek and the SME Human Side of Lean Tech Group Discussion
Presenter: Norman Bodek, President, PCS Press Inc.
Synopsis: The Human Side of Lean Tech Group originated more than five years ago. The team evolves yet has consistently advanced the need to understand the synergy of both pillars of TPS: "just in time" and "respect for people." Note: This is not a traditional recorded webinar, i.e., there are no slides or visuals. However, you will hear stories and some excellent questions from longtime collaborators such as Dave Hogg, Chris Riegel, Gary Gathen, David Csokasy and Paul Parent, as well as comments and questions from serious first-time callers from across North America. |
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Title: Greening a Product Lifecycle...and Making Money at It! The HP Experience
Presenter: Christian Verstraete, Chief Technologist, Manufacturing & Distribution Industries Division, Hewlett-Packard
Synopsis: Green products start at the R&D phase, as 80 percent of the environmental characteristics of the product are fixed even before the first prototype is built. It is important to take a holistic viewpoint at the overall product lifecycle, but at each step understand how things can be done "greener." Through practical examples, this webinar will demonstrate how costs can be reduced, revenues increased and risks mitigated by taking a green approach. Lean concepts complement this by reducing the waste generated across the lifecycle. |