Lean Manufacturing and Logistics Training Help California Businesses

BROOKLINE, Mass., Jan. 4 -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will present seven workshops on how to implement lean manufacturing and lean logistics Feb. 7, 2006-9 in San Jose, CA.

The workshops are: Problem Solving, Value-Stream Mapping, Value-Stream Mapping for Business Processes, Introduction to Lean Warehousing, Implementing Lean Warehousing, Lean Logistics Strategy, and Inbound Lean Logistics for Manufacturers.

Workshops run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Dolce Hayes Mansion, 200 Edenvale Ave., San Jose, CA. For complete content descriptions and to register, go to the Training page of the LEI web site at: http://www.lean.org/Events/ or call (617) 713-2900.

LEI runs workshops in a different region of North America every month on how to implement the lean principles in manufacturing and non-manufacturing processes.

Lean principles cut costs and inventories rapidly to free cash and resources, which is critical in a competitive world economy. Lean supports profitable growth by improving productivity and quality, reducing lead times, and freeing resources. For example, it frees office and plant space and increases capacity so companies can add product lines, in-source component production, and increase output of existing products. Companies implementing lean can take advantage of economic growth by increasing sales while controlling costs.

The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit training, publishing, and research center founded by James P. Womack PhD, in August 1997 to give people simple but powerful tools that enable them to apply a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking, based initially on the Toyota Production System. For more information visit the LEI News page at http://www.lean.org/WhoWeAre/LEINews.cfm.