Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma
Webcast Series

Three Patterns of Kaizen and A3 Thinking Webcast

Toyota has enjoyed phenomenal success over the past fifty years and is widely recognized for its accomplishments in production. However, Toyota is increasingly being given recognition for its success in developing employees.

Why the Lean Enterprise Needs Lean Accounting Webcast

If your company is implementing Lean manufacturing practices, it should be aligning financial functions with Lean business processes. Otherwise, your business management system would fail to support your Lean initiatives, which can hinder your Lean efforts.

Managing Global Industrial Manufacturing Operations for Efficiency and Growth Webcast

Find out how top companies are sustaining quality, achieving asset efficiency, and communicating effectively within global operations. Learn about the tools companies used to build relationships with overseas suppliers and customers. View this Webcast, where you'll hear case studies and see data from an extensive survey of IndustryWeek readers on globalization trends.

Synchronize Your Lean Improvements to Demand-Side Requirements Webcast -- The 'Link-and-Sync' Concept

Too many times, Lean initiatives are trapped within the four walls of the factory and seldom are they leveraged into the market. As a result, excess working capital and inventories represent a disconnect between supply and demand.

The Demand-Driven Value Chain Webcast -- Helping Manufacturers Boost Working Capital and Free Cash Flow

Thanks to the economy, credit crisis, pending recession, $120 price of oil, and a reported $765 billion dollar working capital problem in U.S. manufacturing, a tidal wave of manufacturers (including good ones) are looking inside their businesses to extract working capital and improve free cash flow.

Recognizing Ripe Bananas Webcast - How to Use Lean Innovation to Harvest New Ideas Before Your Competition Wakes Up

Timing is everything. This is true when you are seeking game changing breakthroughs in anything - marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, engineering and more. Invention is not the mother of necessity. You do not create new needs; instead, you must recognize and satisfy them.

Event Registration Webcast -- Lean-Centric Information Systems and Technology

Your factory has adopted the Lean philosophies of flow, small batch, cellular manufacturing. Materials are being procured using visual signals and kanban. Production is paced based on customer demand rates or takt time. What does it mean to me? Is there a role for information system technology anymore?

Digging Deeper into Lean/Six Sigma in Complex Industries Webcast -- Endicott Interconnect Technologies Generates Impressive Savings

Executives go through the motions of deploying Lean/Six Sigma throughout their organizations only to find that it has evolved to another fad improvement program with delusionary results.

Using S&OP to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Pull

Removing bottlenecks in manufacturing and the supply base may be a hallmark of any Lean transformation, but the bottlenecks themselves can’t be conveniently transferred to distribution if the transformation is to be a success.

The Shrinking World Webcast -- How it Affects Small and Midsized Manufacturers

View this on-demand webcast to learn about the extent to which companies have global operations and engage in global trade -- and whether these global operations are expanding or shrinking. Are companies re-thinking low cost country sourcing strategies? Does off-shore production involve opening up new production facilities or outsourcing? And what implications do these decisions have on ERP?

Transforming Suppliers Into Powerful Lean Differentiators Webcast

By using supply chain management as a driver of enterprise-wide Lean transformation, your company can successfully capitalize on the next strategic phase of supplier management. You'll be able to dramatically enhance the use of Lean as a true competitive weapon.

Turning Distribution Operations Into Lean Profit Centers Webcast

Although distribution optimization programs have been on the scene for a number of years, it has only been within the last two to three years that successful Lean businesses have discovered the untapped potential lying dormant in traditional distribution and logistics processes. Long consigned to the role of cost center in the overall supply chain, distribution operations are one of the last vestiges of waste demanding the application of Lean practices and disciplines.

Foundations of the Toyota Production System Webcast -- Establish Standardized Work & Sustain Your Lean Initiative with TWI Training

This Webcast features former Toyota professional John Shook, who shares his first-hand experience with TWI and provides his perspectives on how Toyota uses Job Instruction training to quickly train new employees on their standardized work, the foundation of TPS and building blocks for Kaizen. He will also share how TWI enables Toyota to quickly cross-train employees to create a highly mobile workforce. Shook spent 10 years at Toyota transferring its production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to its overseas affiliates and suppliers.

Implementing Lean/Six Sigma in Complex Industries Webcast -- A Case Study at Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc.

Lean/Six Sigma has become a disappointment in many complex industries. Executives go through the motions of deploying Lean/Six Sigma throughout their organizations only to find that it has evolved to another fad improvement program with delusionary results.

The Make-To-Order Journey Webcast -- Understanding the Lean Foundation for Rapid Order-to-Cash Cycles

In an effort to build make-to-order value chains, many companies implement Lean hoping to reach the pot of gold. But after Lean is implemented, many executive teams are frustrated and puzzled by the fact that on-time delivery, overall working capital, order-to-cash cycles, EBIT performance, and other key metrics may stay stagnant or only experience marginal improvements.

Rapid ERP Implementation Webcast -- How Did They Do That?

View this on-demand Webcast to hear tips and tricks this manufacturer used to achieve such a rapid implementation. You also learn about techniques and methodology that met the challenges of business process engineering, data migration, change management, testing, training, and go live support.

What You Need to Know About Lean Accounting Webcast

For years manufacturing and operations professionals have complained that accounting "just doesn't get it" when it comes to lean principles. Guess what? Those in accounting (well, a growing number of them) have listened and are seeking ways to be a support to lean and not a barrier. Proof? This September 700 CFOs, VPs of finance, and their teams will attend the 3rd annual Lean Accounting Summit.

Prerequisites for Lean Success Webcast -- Learning From Toyota

Achieving basic stability is a prerequisite for success in lean manufacturing. The famous tools of the Toyota Production System such as kanban, standardized work, replenishing material, producing to takt time etc. all rest upon a key assumption. The assumption is that process uptime, quality, employee capability, and overall operational "stability" is in place.

Toyota's Misunderstood, but Powerful, Lean Management Tool: Strategy Deployment

At this Webcast, you'll get a first-hand look at Toyota's methods from Pascal Dennis, an award-winning faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute who implemented strategy deployment while working at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.

Avoid Random Acts of Lean by Extending Lean Principles Across the Value Chain

Join now the Webcast "Avoid Random Acts of Lean by Extending Lean Principles Across the Value Chain." Build a more effective "lean" manufacturing strategy by using lean practices where they count.

Six Sigma, Lean, or Kaizen? Using the Right Tool for the Right Problem

Six Sigma, Lean, or Kaizen -- there's no shortage of tools for improving your manufacturing operations. But how do you choose the right one for the specific challenges you face? Get the answers from an informative Webcast sponsored by SAP.

Enhancing Lean Practices -- Lean Adoption in the Industrial Machinery and Components Industry

Today, an estimated 66% of industrial machinery and components companies have adopted Lean manufacturing. Those companies with a best-in-class approach to Lean deployment are already reaping extraordinary benefits. Discover how you can join them at an educational Webcast sponsored by SAP.

Undergo a "Good-to-Great" Lean Transformation -- Featuring a Real-World Example from Datasensor

In his book Good to Great, author Jim Collins highlights the key factors that can help a company transform itself from a laggard to a successful, highly profitable company. Now, see a real world example of a "good-to-great" transformation at a Webcast sponsored by SAP, in association with Intel Corporation and Hewlett Packard.

Enabling Operational Excellence at Roche Pharmaceuticals

For many companies -- perhaps even yours -- the shop floor and the top floor are disconnected from each other. By creating a manufacturing environment that fully integrates its enterprise and plant-floor systems, Roche Pharmaceuticals is achieving higher production yields, better plant utilization, and superior quality, while reducing costs. Get an inside look at how companies can aggregate data from disparate systems and enable interoperability of business processes from the enterprise to the plant floor at a Webcast sponsored by SAP.

Formula One's Team McLaren -- Answering the Need for Speed, On and Off the Track

With 148 Grand Prix victories and 19 Formula One world championships, Team McLaren Mercedes has built an operating model that is as lean, powerful, and efficient as its high-performance Mercedes-Benz engines. Now you can learn this team's secrets to success at a unique IndustryWeek magazine Webcast.

Turbocharging Your Lean Strategy -- How the World's Best Manufacturers Leverage Lean with Technology

Tune in for a Webcast sponsored by SAP and IndustryWeek magazine in association with Intel Corporation and Hewlett Packard.

Driving Manufacturing Excellence across Global Operations at Whirlpool Corporation

At this informative Webcast sponsored by SAP and IndustryWeek magazine, you'll discover how to bridge the gap between the enterprise and the plant floor, while empowering production personnel to drive superior responsiveness and performance. In addition, you’ll learn how Whirlpool has integrated the mySAP ERP application and more than 100 different legacy systems with its global plant-floor systems, lowering the total cost of ownership on its manufacturing infrastructure.

Drive your Company -- The Toyota Way

Toyota consistently sets new standards for automotive quality and manufacturing excellence. That's why you can't afford to miss the upcoming adaptive manufacturing Webcast sponsored by SAP and IndustryWeek magazine. At this informative event, you'll enjoy a thought-provoking interview with University of Michigan professor Dr. Jeffrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer.

Leveraging Lean to Become Adaptive

Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methods have helped hundreds of North American manufacturers achieve operational excellence. To reach the next level of competitiveness and profitability, you need to create a manufacturing environment that adapts immediately to changing conditions. At this informative Webcast, ARC’s Greg Gorbach and SAP’s Ian Ryan will discuss ARC's research findings on adaptive manufacturing.

Lean and Six Sigma Workshops -- Benchmarks and Lessons Learned

Enjoy this unique opportunity to hear author Terence T. Burton, founder and president of The Center for Excellence in Operations, Inc., for a benchmark study Webcast focusing on Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma.