Workshops

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 […]

Workshop #4: Marketing Tools that every Manufacturer Should Leverage In today's digital era, the most successful manufacturers take the principles of Six Sigma to the next level with innovative new digital marketing tools. You can measure your marketing in the same way that you measure manufacturing processes - and achieve the same sustained quality improvement […]

Training Description: Maximizing the potential of the people in an organization is probably one of the most important steps to take towards achieving the organization's strategic goals. Quality Improvement Skills provides the foundational skills for more quality assurance skills training. Training Objective: This quality assurance course provides students with an understanding of quality principles and […]

Training Description: Problem Solving for Lean is an eight hour course that teaches a structured, team based, root cause oriented problem solving process that supports the elimination of impediments to process flow. This highly interactive course leads participants through an understanding of problem-solving skills and tools such as creative/divergent thinking, consensus decision making for convergent […]

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 […]

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 […]

SECRETS, ADVICE, AND WARNINGS FROM THE REGION'S BEST TRAINERS Even if you hire employees with all the right experience and potential, getting them on board for the specific new job you're assigning them to, whether a front line machinist or a top level thought leader, takes strategy, execution, philosophy and decreasing the risk of a […]

Join a Race Car “Pit Crew” Learn the Three Keys to Sustaining Your Continuous Improvement Gains This unique “Learn by Doing” training will be facilitated by MassMEP and a race team crew from the Ken Bouchard “Drive to Victory Lane” School. Attendees will be assigned to a “Race Car Pit Crew” and will work on […]

Improve your Workforce Utilizing State Training Dollars Join MassMEP and AIM HR Solutions to find out how easy it is to access up to  $250,000 of state training funds! MassMEP and AIM HR Solutions have partnered to provide a workshop designed to help companies prepare and apply for training funds through the Workforce Training Fund's General Grant program. […]

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 […]