1-hour 3rd Thursday Web-based Seminars

A Better Method for Cross Training Production Personnel You are invited to attend the Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s August 2009 3rd Thursday - Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, A Better Method for Cross-Training Production Personnel. Companies that take cross training of production personnel seriously report as much as a 30% fewer direct labor employees than exact peer companies. They also report faster cycle times, higher  more...

How to Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Shipment ForecastsTechniques to Improve Forecast Inputs ...sented on January 19, 2012. This montha ™s powerful 1-hour 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement Seriesa Webinar has five important objectives: 1. Learn how to organize for improved forecasting, including the role of the a Chief Forecaster.a 2. Understand the importance of equally considering past, present and future data in order to understand the direction and projected  more...

Constructing a Component Criticality Matrix A Better Way to Identify Important Components Procurement organizations are often responsible for managing thousands of parts that can be purchased from hundreds of Suppliers. The large number of parts and Suppliers makes it nearly impossible to manage each individual part as much as one wants to. This is why Procurement organizations rely upon stratification methods and other sorting methodologies to provide insights into GROUPS of parts.  more...

Integrative Activity Based Costing Leadership An Overview of Bottom Up Cost Accounting This powerful 1-hour FREE 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement webinar has 3 important objectives: 1. To demonstrate how a bottom-up version of ABCA can be used to better allocate support costs. With some commonly used value engineering tools, a new perspective of product cost can be developed. 2. To demonstrate how any standard cost accounting system can be made to calculate  more...

Demystifying the Calculations of Efficiency Utilization and Productivity You are invited to attend the Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s November 2010 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, Demystifying the Calculations of Efficiency, Utilization & Productivity. Given enough time, important terms always seem to morph and get used interchangeably. This is true with many daily terms we use in business. Worse, when important terms  more...

How to Calculate the Impact on Total Factory Costs from a One Percent Change in Planned Load You are invited to attend the Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s September 2010 3rd Thursday - Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, How to Calculate the Impact on Total Factory Costs From a 1% Change in Planned Load. The largest cost driver in most manufacturing companies, outside of the cost of direct material, is underutilization of semi-fixed and fixed costs. These costs are  more...