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AICC's Executive Lean Manufacturing Workshop

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Scott Ellis, principal of P-Squared, opens the AICC's Executive Lean Manufacturing Workshop June 8 at the Hyatt Rosemont in Chicago with 35 members in attendance. Ellis is leading the workshop along with Les Pickering and Scott Heilmann of P-Squared.

In a lean manufacturing group exercise, members work together to improve the process for assembling a simple electrical plug. Principles learned there are later applied specifically to the box plant environment, discussing ways to reduce inventory, work in process and eliminate bottlenecks.

Basic Tools of Lean Manufacturing for Corrugated Executives

Reducing Waste, Improving Profit.

Lean manufacturing has been defined as manufacturing without waste. "Waste" covers more than just material waste from your corrugator or slitter. It encompasses waste in material, waste in motion, waste in production, waste in inventory, waste in transportation, waste in machine utilization, waste in defects! Is there a lot of time wasted in waiting? Waste is anything your customer would not gladly pay for were you to list it separately on the invoice.

AICC and P² (P-Squared) have joined forces to offer a new training program specifically for executives, owners and managers in the corrugated and paperboard industries: Executive Lean Manufacturing Workshop.

This 1½-day program introduces corrugated industry executives to the concept of Lean Manufacturing. The focus of the training is on giving participants the tools to be able to introduce lean manufacturing in their own facilities. Facilitated by Dr. Scott Ellis and Mr. Les Pickering of P2, the Executive Lean Manufacturing Workshop expands on the topics presented at AICC's 2004 Spring Meeting. A course manual and group exercises assist in the learning as well as peer interaction. Participants will be assessing and improving the fictitious plant known as:

Topics:

• Assessment and Starting Right
  This module will provide an overview of Lean Manufacturing, its history and its benefits. Participants would learn to assess the costs of the Lean transformation, as well as how and where to begin for the greatest return on investment. This module would include an introduction to benchmarking tools for assessment of plant and culture.
• Organize for Success, Creating a Visual Workplace
  A practical guide to implementing the 7S's (5S, Visual Workplace)
  The first step in the Lean transformation is to organize the flow of materials, tools, and information. Participants would learn how to facilitate the activities and agreements that will involve the entire crew in organizing and setting standards for maintaining an orderly work area.
• Seek & Destroy Waste, An introduction to Value Stream Mapping
  Participants would learn to map both shop floor and administrative processes to eliminate waste and shorten the line from order to cash. They would work with a team in a practical exercise to map the seven types of administrative waste and the 11 types of production waste.

Who Should Attend?

• General Managers, CEOs, Executives, other key managers from corrugator plants, sheet plants, sheet feeders, folding carton and rigid box plants, and suppliers.

About the facilitators:

Dr. Scott Ellis is an expert in individual growth and organizational growth. With 23 years experience, 14 of them with the packaging industry, Scott teaches participants to identify and counteract bottlenecks in production processes and the people systems that support them.

Mr. Les Pickering has worked in the area of process improvement in companies throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan. Les draws on 25 years of international experience in the packaging industry to equip participants with the right tools to eliminate process constraints that impact the bottom line.

Further Information

Name :	John Morgan, Director of Education & Training
Phone :	1-877-836-2422
Fax :	703-836-2795
Email :	education@aiccbox.org

Registration

Member Registration (3 weeks or more prior to seminar)	$845
Member Registration (within 3 weeks of seminar)	$945
Nonmember Registration	$1,145

***2nd and 3rd Registrants from same company get USD 100 off base fee.***

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AICC Course Registration Form in PDF

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