ECi M1 Manufacturing Breakthrough Bootcamp
Date and time
Location
New Brighton Community Center
400 10th Street NW New Brighton, MN 55112Refund Policy
Description
In our one-day Manufacturing Breakthrough Workshop, Bob Sproull will demonstrate to attendees how to identify their manufacturing business’ key leverage points so that improvement efforts are focused in the right areas. Bob will teach how to combine the Theory Of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma (TLS) in a way that will jumpstart improvement efforts and deliver new levels of performance that will be able to sustain and fuel growth.
Participants
The workshop is open to all manufacturers, and is best suited to decision makers in a manufacturing organization and staff in the following areas: Business Owner (Owner, MD), Operations (Production Manager, Operations Manager), Finance/Accounting (CFO, Controller, Purchasing & Inventory)
Event Agenda
Thursday, July 16, 2015
- 8:00am − Registration Opens
- 9:00am − Bootcamp Begins
- 12:00 − 1:00pm − Lunch
- 1:00 − 5:00pm – Workshop Continues
Objectives
Completion of the workshop will give participants the knowledge to:
- Increase output by 30% or more without spending much money
- Improve on-time delivery performance to greater than 95%
- Reduce overtime and other costs related to expediting shipments by 50%
- Significantly improve their company’s bottom line
- Significantly reduce their management team’s stress
Topics Covered
- Introduction to Continuous Improvement – Why many improvement initiatives fail to deliver bottom line improvement
- Why you don’t need an “army of belts” – common sense improvement efforts
- Intro to Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints – basic concepts
- TLS – Putting it altogether through synergy - Why TLS works so well
- The most useful tools for improvement from all three methodologies
- How to create the right structure for continuous improvement
- How to identify and capitalize on your organization’s leverage point
- System improvement versus localized improvement – how to remove organizational silo’s
- The right and wrong performance metrics to motivate the right behaviors
- Cost Accounting (CA) versus Throughput Accounting (TA)
- Implementing TLS in your organization
- The Intermediate Objectives Map and how to use it within your organization
- The other side of the Theory of Constraints – The Thinking Process Tools
- Organizational conflicts and how to effectively resolve them