BETTER MANUFACTURING

Objective: More efficient manufacturing

This workshop maybe taught in four or eight hours

Today’s successful organizations can not afford to use procedures that do not add value to end product. Every activity accomplished by every individual must contribute positively to the bottom line. Ed O. Bridgman developed the Better Manufacturing workshop to make employees at all levels acutely aware of the cost of non-value added steps. With the proper training, the people actually touching the product are in the best position to identify and implement improved production solutions. They are the people that can create the efficient systems and make them part of the corporation’s culture. Without their buy-in nothing will ever be improved.

Participants are provided a workbook.

Topics include:

• Why does this corporation exist?

• Understand the impact of lost productivity

• Defining and creating a 6-sigma manufacturing environment

• How to make a Gant chart

• How to determine the “Red X”

• Determining the critical path

• What are you responsible for?

• Identifying the difference one employee can make

Seminar consists of:

• Small and large group discussions

• Facilitator lead exercises

• Communication exercises

Organizational Benefits:

• More production

• Less expensive production

• More profit margin

• Employees taking responsibility for increasing production