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 […]
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 […]
This event has been postponed at this time. Please give us a call if you have any questions 508-831-7020. Come join us and celebrate our 5th anniversary! We will be announcing our LearnCNC program at no cost to MACWIC member companies! LearnCNC Used by thousands of CNC machining customers, the Virtual Training Systems for CNC […]
Workshop #1: Marketing for Manufacturers Redefined Marketing is no longer about sales brochures, logos and creative. Cutting edge manufacturers are embracing a marketing playbook that is consumed with growth and lead generation vs. creative. This workshop will discuss the changing role marketing plays in a manufacturer's short and long term growth objectives and what you […]
Description: An interactive course that combines classroom instruction with intensive hands-on experience in the simulated shop-floor venue called the Time Wise, Inc. Clock Factory. Principles of Lean Manufacturing exposes the frailty of Traditional Manufacturing Concepts in a high volume, low variety mass production facility. Students experience the process of assembling a variety of working clocks […]
Workshop #2: 10 Marketing Tips to Implement Now Today, marketing is the key to growth in the manufacturing sector. New clients won't come your way unless you pursue them, and leads will trickle away if you don't nurture them. Your transformation can - and should - start now. This workshop will offer relevant and immediately actionable […]
Workshop #3: Building a Strategic Marketing Plan Primed For Growth Lean manufacturing will take you far, but it is exponentially more valuable when paired with a strategic plan for long-term growth. Manufacturers with formalized, growth-centered strategic plans achieve their goals more efficiently and cost-effectively than those who focus only on the bottom line. This workshop […]
