1-hour Free 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...

Constructing a Component Criticality Matrix A Better Way to Identify Important Components ...act on customer service. This montha ™s powerful 1-hour FREE 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement webinar has three important objectives: 1. To learn what a Component Criticality Matrix is and how to construct one. 2. To learn how to interpret the results of a Component Criticality Matrix and how to connect interpretations with planning and ordering actions. 3. To  more...

Integrative Activity Based Costing Leadership An Overview of Bottom Up Cost Accounting ...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 allocations  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...