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Interactive Analytics ...Free Webinar is designed for Business analysts and developers to become familiar with using BIRT to design and develop Interactve Financial Dashboards and BI Applications with rich data visualizations. BIRT is a top level project within Eclipse and is the fastest growing open source reporting technology with over 5 million dowloads in the past 2 years. Actuate founded and continues to co-lead  more...

Implementing Statistical process Control SPC for Short Run Production ...h 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 accepted business practicea accept in make-to-order short-run production  more...

Three New Segmented P and Ls That Will Shake Your Understanding of Product Cost This 1-hour FREE webinar presents three new profit and loss statements that are the direct result of rethinking manufacturing cost accounting. These new formats are sure to forever change your thinking about how value is created... and destroyed... in a manufacturing enterprise.  more...

A Better Method for Cross Training Production Personnel ... 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 fill rates and lower customersa ™ backorders. This is because the  more...

Measuring Performance of Your Global Procurement Organization How to Shape Behaviours in Global Purchasing ...er 8th, 2011 a Global Manufacturing Enterprise Seriesa FREE webinar, a Measuring Performance of Your Global Procurement Organizationa How to Shape Behaviors in Global Purchasing.a This montha ™s powerful 1-hour webinar has 2 important objectives: 1. Define the best alternatives for structuring a modern Procurement function in a global supply-chain world. 2. Define the  more...

Better Methods To Control Tools Fixtures in Production ...er the tool was missing or non-usable? In this 1-hour FREE webinar, we will explore some specific techniques for better managing the quality and availability of tools and fixtures. We will review tool and fixture maintenance requirements, including an innovative technique for scheduling and integrating tool and fixture preventive maintenance activities into production processes. We will  more...

Understanding Improving Yields Scrap Rework Scrap and yield are different measurements that tell us different things about our production processes. Measuring and monitoring them precisely (and individually) is an important component of any process improvement initiative. If these values get comingled in the measurement procedures, underlying root cause analysis is certain to result. This FREE 1-hour webinar presents the CORRECT  more...

How to Factually Evaluate Critical Supplier Performance and Risks ...red YES to any of these questions, you should attend this FREE webinar. Alan G. Dunn, President of GDI Consulting & Training Company will share how GDI's Supplier Assessment Practice performs Comprehensive Supplier Performance & Risk Assessments at supplier sites across the globe. These assessments are fact-based evaluations of suppliers that result in a clinical evaluation of performance by  more...

How to Conduct an Effective Monthly Variance Review Meeting ...& Throughput Variances + Yield Variances This 1-hour FREE webinar will address how great plant managers prepare for and conduct their variance review meetings and what information they bring to the meetings. Further, we will present ideas for engaging all participants in these meetings as well as how to set expectations for follow-up activities. This webinar is one of our most popular  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...

How to Achieve Maintain ERP Systems Master File Data Integrity ...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 evidence that this promise has not been fully realized. The truth is, as  more...

Demystifying the Calculations of Efficiency Utilization and Productivity ...mber 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 morph, the original (and correct) use of the term gets lost. When this  more...

How to Calculate the Impact on Total Factory Costs from a One Percent Change in Planned Load ...ptember 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 the aggregated expenditures on plant, property, people and equipment  more...

Building a Cost Reduction Curve to Estimate Future Raw Material Prices Annual raw material spend is usually the largest cost reduction opportunity in most manufacturing companies. By reducing the price of raw material items, a company is immediately reducing its cash outflow and increasing it liquidity. Further, reducing annual spend improves gross margins and allows for a more competitive finished goods pricing strategy if needed. The trick to systematically  more...