40 Insightful Workshops

Quick Changeover
Work Like a Pit Crew to Get Your Machine Back Producing the Next Order

George Alukal and Anthony Manos, Alukal Partners LLC and Profero Inc.

As a participant you will be introduced to Shigeo Shingo's legendary Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) and learn how to apply it to reduce changeover times dramatically. This session will walk you through how to implement SMED as a Kaizen event, and you will also learn how the different building blocks of Lean are applied, through the use of exercises and case studies.

Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes
Escape the Improvement Trap

Michael Bremer, The Cumberland Group

Businesses hope to beat the competition and grow market share by implementing performance improvement initiatives. But studies show most of these initiatives fail to yield the expected leap in performance vs. the competition. Why? From our experience it is because most organizations only do an average job of improving relative to their competitors...it's simply a mathematical fact.

In this workshop Michael will show you how focusing on the power levers for each of the five missing ingredients needed to implement performance initiatives-will dramatically help improve your competitive advantage. Find out how to develop more effective performance measurements, and learn about the executive mindset necessary to extract optimal value from an organization's process improvement efforts. Organizations that effectively incorporate their five key ingredients do achieve a competitive advantage, we guarantee it!

Building a Dream Team...
Creating a Culture of Performance Excellence

Joe Barto, Training Modernization Group

An NBA game provides us with the perspective to appreciate the exceptional performance that is possible when you get the "best-of-the-best" all working together in a seamless and coordinated fashion. Wouldn't it be great to do the same with your business team... build your own dream team? Learn how to build a culture of continuous improvement.

Learn the difference between operational stability and team stability. See the importance of team alignment and how to organize your team for success. Learn ways to better develop your most valuable assets... your leaders. Understand the linkage between team engagement and business performance. See how recruiting, trying out, and making the team are key value added activities. Understand where to begin in the process of developing a "Modernized Human Capital Performance Program".

Operational Decision Making with Lean Accounting
Information That Will Improve the Ability to Make the Best Decisions

Jean Cunningham, Jean Cunningham Consulting

Learn how the adoption of Accounting for Lean provides you with better information for analysis and superior way to make decisions. See specific examples of accounting without standard cost and statement templates. Learn all about the benefits to finding alternatives for inventory valuation. Participants in this workshop will also learn how to take specific Lean accounting actions to conserve cash that might not be obvious with traditional standard cost accounting.

Value Stream Mapping
Learning to See the Flow and Waste

Don Guild, Synchronous Management

Using the case study in the Shingo Prize winning book, Learning to See, you'll learn how to identify a product family, how to see the entire value stream for that family, how to map the current state value stream to identify and eliminate waste, see what makes a value stream Lean, and learn how to develop a plan to achieve future state results.

Maintenance Manager 101
Strategy for Maintenance Excellence

John Kravontka, Fuss and O'Neill

In this full day workshop, we will show you the basics of managing a Lean maintenance department. If you are just starting out, or wanting to take your group to the next level this is the workshop for you. You will learn how to develop a maintenance vision, how to identify critical equipment and skills, how to locate maintenance waste, and how to perform solid preventive maintenance. We will provide useful tools that you can take back with you, that will help you begin to make improvements immediately.

Lean Tools for the Office
A Lean Office Overview with Live Simulation

Drew Locher, Change Management Associates

This workshop will provide an overview of how Lean concepts applied to office and administrative processes will dramatically improve your office. The participants will be introduced to the various Lean concepts, and be provided the opportunity to apply them in a live simulated office environment. At the end of this workshop participants will have gained the knowledge on how to measure the impact of their improvement effort in their office and administrative processes.

Advanced Lean Sigma Business Simulation
Test Your Lean Change Skills

Patrick Lucansky, Value Innovation Partners, Ltd.

In this advanced simulation class you will learn "What's next after Lean 101?" This full day workshop is promoted by the speaker as the most fun learning experience by far that you will have at this year's conference. See advanced techniques in Lean and Six Sigma. Learn how to deliver superior results in a safe, fun atmosphere. Take your company to the next level of performance by utilizing your advanced skills with the guidance of Pat's expert facilitation. Learn how to transform your company by implementing advanced concepts where customer satisfaction is exceeded.

White Collar Kaizen
Using the Power of Rapid Improvement Events to Transform Office, Service and Knowledge Work Environments

Karen Martin, Karen Martin & Associates
Mike Osterling, Osterling Consulting

Through discussion and hands-on activities, workshop participants will learn the step-by-step approach for planning and executing office-based Kaizen events. Take away the knowledge on how to create a sustainability plan with teeth, and find out how that plan will help you navigate through the common obstacles that are the roadblocks to your success.

Slashing Time-to-Market
A Practical, Approach to Implementing Lean Product Development

Ron Mascitelli, Technology Perspectives

This workshop provides you with an overview of Lean concepts, and their application to office and administrative processes. As a participant you will be introduced to various Lean concepts, and be given the opportunity to apply them in a simulated office. Through this simulation process participants will be able to step-by-step measure the impact of their improvement effort. This is one workshop you won't want to miss.

Powering the Lean/Sigma Workplace
A Structured Approach for Building a Team-Based,
CI Culture Within Lean Implementation

Barry Rubin, TeamPath

In order to sustain and build on hard-earned Lean results, it's essential to focus on the cultural aspect. A collaborative, team-based workforce focused on performance gains and continuous improvement is critical to getting the most out of your Lean investment. This "how-to" real case-based workshop, presents a proven, structured "whole system" approach to developing a team-based, continuous improvement culture. See how Lean-team organizational design and front-line leader development, helps empower, build, and involve teams in successfully applying continuous improvement. Learn how developing the "roadmap" needed to build leadership that is focused on a team's performance makes a difference.