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Lean 102

When
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location
Ottawa County Administration Building Main Conference Room 12220 Fillmore St West Olive, MI 49460
Spaces left
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32 registrants

Registration

Early Bird Member Registration – $18.00
Early Bird Non-Member Registration – $108.00
Early Bird Non-Member Registration with Membership Incentive – $99.00
Free Spots for Host Facility
Member Registration – $20.00
Non-Member Registration – $120.00
Non-Member Registration with Membership Incentive – $110.00

“Implementing Lean" – The next class in the series expands the scope of the Lean Leader to the Value Stream level. More advanced Lean tools will be taught to support Value Stream wide improvement.

Students will walk away with an understanding of what a Value Stream is, how to map it and some of the advanced countermeasure tools used to improve performance.

We will take a look at: Value Stream Mapping, Kanban, SMED, Heijunka, Visual Management, One Piece Flow, Facility Assessments, Facilitation.

Target Audience: Anyone who has been practicing Lean for some length of time and is looking to enhance their skill set and share their best practices and lessons learned.

Speaker Bio:

For the past 8 years, Dave Kippen has served as a Lean leader, coach and educational instructor. He currently works at Milsco Manufacturing in Jackson, MI. Dave’s passion is to aid in the development of leadership and growth throughout all levels of the organization. During this time, Dave has successfully coached more than 250 people through Lean 101 classes, 20 Leaders through Lean 201 classes and facilitated well over 100 Kaizen events throughout the United States and Europe. In addition, Dave is Bronze certified through the SME/AME/Shingo Prize/ASQ Partnership. For more information, please connect with him via his LinkedIn profile or atdavekippen@yahoo.com.

When registering for this event make sure you take advantage of our Membership Incentive registration: for only $99 (early bird) registration) or $110 you will be able to attend this event and become a Michigan Consortium Member (individual membership is $90). One of the advantages of becoming a member: monthly training events are free or discounted to members. Click here to see other membership benefits!

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