Who Should Attend: This course is recommended for anyone involved in designing, implementing, maintaining and improving a quality management system and/or performing internal audits of a quality management system, such as quality officers, managers and auditors. No prior knowledge of auditing, quality management systems or ISO 9001:2008 is required prior to attending this course. Course […]
Come join us and celebrate our 5th anniversary! We will be announcing our LearnCNC program at no cost to MACWIC member companies. Many more announcements to come! LearnCNC Used by thousands of CNC machining customers, the Virtual Training Systems for CNC is the only online learning system that combines powerful "flight-simulator" technology with interactive curriculum. […]
UMass Lowell's Innovation Hub is the location for our Wednesday, February 15th Mass Innovation Nights #95. The City of Lowell and UMass Lowell's Innovation Hub are co-sponsoring and co-hosting this all tech event. We will have ten truly innovative products from a wireless payment system at gas stations (think EZ Pass for gas) to a […]
Description: This hands‐on simulation is designed to introduce the participants to lean concepts, allow them to experience changes to a process, and motivate them to desire improvements in their pre‐production processes. Office processes are composed of individual tasks. Processes are generally developed over years of time and normally contain steps that are no longer required. […]
Startups present their prototypes to panel of manufacturing experts. Why you should come???? Startups learn how to move your product from prototype to production. Manufacturers learn the needs of your future customers. Each startup will take one minute to briefly summarize their company and 3 minutes to explain their manufacturing challenge and summarize what single […]
Training Description: Working in teams is one of the cornerstones of continuous improvement and lean manufacturing implementation methodologies. It is therefore critical that the people who are members of teams in your organization work effectively and successfully together to accomplish their charters and goals. Research has revealed that successful teams have certain characteristics and utilize […]
Training Description: 5S Workplace Organization and Standardization: This training instills a five-step highly disciplined housekeeping technique. This technique provides the ‘how to’ for a manufacturer to clean up the typically disorganized work area and ensure the success of lean manufacturing on the shop floor. The 5 steps are: • Sort through all items and remove […]
Manufacturing Rocket Pitch for Solutions A-Team Expert Panel moderated by Peter Russo from MassMEP: panelist will have 3-5 minutes to describe their area of expertise and provide example of: 3 important things they would like every startup to know about manufacturing 3 critical best practices within their type of manufacturing Each startup will take one […]
Training Description: A value stream map is a standardized model used to layout the stream of value adding activities in a process while overlaying material flow, information flow, and non-value adding waste information to provide a qualitative picture of the actual process in a facility. This tool also maps the information flow from the customer, […]
Meeting at MIT March 30th for Companies Interested in the Transformative Field of Integrated Photonics Interested in learning about business opportunities for your company in the emerging field of integrated photonics? Join us at MIT Thursday, March 30th for the second gathering of regional companies hosted by AIM Academy. Integrated photonics offers exciting solutions for […]
