Southern Regional Training in Lean Enterprise Principles Helps Companies Compete

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 28 -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will present 10 workshops on implementing lean enterprise principles in production and nonproduction processes Jan 23, 2007 - 25 in Irving, TX.

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The curriculum includes a new two-day workshop on policy deployment based on the forthcoming LEI-published book Getting the Right Things Done: A leader's guide to planning and execution by Pascal Dennis.

Workshops run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sheraton Grand Hotel at Dallas/Forth Worth Airport, 4440 West John Carpenter Freeway, Irving. The dates and workshops are:

  Tues., Jan 23
   - Value-Stream Mapping
   - Lean Problem Solving
   - Business Process Value-Stream Mapping

  Wed., Jan 24
   - NEW! Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader's Guide to Strategy
     Deployment (2 Days).
   - Fundamentals of Lean Production: Creating Stability in the 4M's
   - Creating Continuous Flow
   - Supply Chain Management

  Thurs., Jan 25
   - Creating Level Pull
   - Making Materials Flow
   - Lean Logistics

The daily fee of $800 for each workshop covers all materials, breakfast, and lunch. Registration is open now. You can get complete content descriptions from the LEI Training web at http://www.lean.org/Events/EventDescriptions.cfm?TrainingOrSummit=Training or by calling (617) 871-2900.

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.

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About the Lean Enterprise Institute

The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) is a 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, based on the Toyota Production System. LEI disseminates this knowledge through books and workbooks, training, research projects, conferences, its web site, and global affiliates.

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