Free 3rd Thursday Web-based Seminars

Implementing Statistical process Control SPC for Short Run Production You are invited to attend the Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s August 16th 2012 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement Seriesa FREE webinar, a Implementing Statistical Process Control for Short-Run Production.a SPC has helped many manufacturing companies achieve world class quality in production operations. Application of SPC techniques have become commonplace and a normally  more...

A Case for Routine Use of Statistical Process Control SPC in Manufacturing You are invited to attend the Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s FREE June 2012 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement webinar, A Case for Routine Use of Statistical Process Control (SPC) in Manufacturing. Statistical Process Control is a term that describes a process for predicting failures and methodically determining the underlying cause(s) before the predicted failures can  more...

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 ...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 understand the  more...

How to Achieve Maintain ERP Systems Master File Data Integrity You are invited to attend the Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s May 19th 2011 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, How to Achieve & Maintain ERP Systems Master File Data Integrity. Contrary to the popular belief that modern, fully-integrated information systems provide executives with the tools to make more effective and efficient decisions, there is increasing  more...

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