Six Sigma
Manufacturing Summit & Excellence Awards
Manufacturing Summit & Excellence Awards
Hogan Campus Center One College Street, Worcester
Single Ticket Rate: $45.00
#WBJManufacturing
Worcester Business Journal is excited to produce our fourth annual Manufacturing Summit where we’ll tap a panel of experts to dig into top issues affecting manufacturers in our region. In addition, we’ll recognize some of the area’s top manufacturing firms with our annual Central Mass "Manufacturing Excellence Awards" ceremony and networking reception.
Winners will be announced in our April 1st edition.
2019 Summit Theme: Finding ways to grow in the face of the manufacturing workforce challenge:
Low unemployment, a horde of retiring baby boomers and demographic shifts in the workforce have all conspired to make it difficult for manufacturers to fill open positions. While this structural challenge is not unique to manufacturing and has been around for some time, companies around the state have been finding creative solutions to being more productive and finding ways to grow. We’ll explore some of the creative solutions that have been implemented and how they are working.
Don’t miss this special event and the opportunity to network with industry leaders, and celebrate the 2019 Central Mass "Manufacturing Excellence Award” honorees - register today!
Stay tuned - additional speaker line-up coming soon!
Supply Chain Trends for Startups
About this Event
Among the countless disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain risks can be daunting to assess and seem out of your startups' control. It is increasingly important to develop an understanding of current trends in the supply chain, what is predicted to come, and how your startup can best plan for the future.
Please join FORGE on Thursday, August 20 from 10 am - 11 am as we welcome Tom Andrellos of the Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership to discuss strategy, analytics, risk management, and opportunities to prepare for the ripple effects of COVID-19 on your supply chain.
Tom Andrellos is the Director of Growth Services for MassMEP. He has over 32 years in senior-level positions with High Tech manufacturing, global supply chain, and business operations. Tom has successfully developed business plans, specific program strategies, and operating approaches that deploy grant funding across Massachusetts.
Previous FORGE events in our "Supply Chain in a Pandemic” series have focused on sharing experiences and lessons learned with startup peers and actionable frameworks that your team can leverage to assess and mitigate risk in your supply chain. This event will focus on providing the context of what is happening at the manufacturing level, and what may come in the coming months and years so that you can best plan ahead and position your startup for continued growth and success.
This one-hour, interactive session is open to any and all startups with physical products or components and will be moderated by Anya Losik, Program Manager at FORGE.
NOTE: By registering, I consent that this virtual event may be recorded, and my photograph and/or screenshot may be published in promotional materials, web and social media posts, and other public-facing FORGE content.
Team Involvement Problem Solving (TIPS) – Online SBDAP
Team Involvement Problem Solving
September 21, 23, 25, 2020
9:00am - 12:00pm
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 thinking, data collection and analysis, and tools for planning actions. An eight-step problem-solving process with associated guidelines for executing each step is presented. Problem-solving meeting facilitation is covered. The workshop concludes with a problem-solving practice exercise in a team setting.
Training Objective: This training will provide a cross-functional groups of employees with an 8 step process for quickly resolving problems with a consensus-driven approach that puts permanent corrective actions in place. Problem-solving can be used in the office as well as the production and supporting departments. The trainees will have the opportunity to demonstrate the outcomes of a problem-solving process they participated in using the various tools learned in the training. In this training, we expect to address specific measures of success relating to productivity and sales.
Skill Attainment: Problem Solving Training skills that will be transferred:
¥ Learn how to be part of a team-based approach involving those closest to a particular process
¥ Understand and use techniques for generating creative ideas
¥ Capability to facilitate consensus decision making
¥ Use and facilitate a structured eight-step problem-solving model
Utilize interactive skills and facilitation techniques that support effective team-based problem solving