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A company in Massachusetts had bought the plywood for
boarding up the windows and closing up shop. The new
president hired to turn the company around, called in
the Center to help with training and lean applications
for his organization. After four years of hard work,
improvement projects in manufacturing and the office,
and a complete revision of the new product development
approach, the company became profitable. The controller
paid off all bank loans and the company was later
acquired by a larger, international company in a related
industry as a perfect match for their business. For
their turnaround work, the acquired company won an award
for excellence from the state of Massachusetts.
Training in new tools is a required strategy for company
survival in this global environment. But training is
just a line item in the HR budget if the tools are not
vigorously applied to the workplace. Leaders of lean
companies have learned that training is not just for the
salaried professional anymore, but the key for changing
the culture of the entire organization. For lean to take
hold and yield the substantial savings in your facility,
hourly associates must also be an integral part of the
training activity so they can release their vast, on the
job knowledge and experience to the continuous
improvement culture you are striving to develop.
Companies starting down the lean road will eventually
learn that training is a requirement for ongoing
improvements and a budgeted line item fixed-in-concrete
not to be cut – ever.
The Center has provided state of the art training
workshops in lean manufacturing, lean office and lean
reliability since 1988. We give participants the depth
of knowledge to go back and apply the learning to their
workplace. Because our facilitators are highly skilled,
hands on experts, and not staff generalists, we bring
more than just a surface awareness and definitions of
terms.
Prepare your company with training for the present staff
if you are just starting or as a base for new employees
if you are well on the road. The Center presenters teach
their workshops from problems participants bring to the
classes and provide case histories of successful
companies along with analytical tools they can take back
to the workplace for application.
Look at the public training schedule and for workshop
details, click on the program series you need for your
company.
Quotes from Clients
“The University of Dayton’s presenters are world
class consultants and they present materials that are
not available from any other single source.”
“Maintenance costs are reduced by $30 million per
year (15%) across our company so far and a number of our
units are producing 10 to 20% more product for the same
assets.”
Call us at 937.229.4653 or go to
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your process of "getting to the future first".
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