Lean Product Development Webinar – What Does Success Look Like?
January 14, 2013 from 2pm-3pm EST
Hear about the latest framework, tools, and methods of Lean Product Development and how MEP centers can sell, deliver, sustain, and succeed using this powerful improvement methodology. Understand what LPD materials and support are available through the National MEP system and how LPD synergizes with the current suite of consulting products available to MEP centers, including Innovation Engineering. NIST MEP will provide Lean Product Development master practitioners and fund them to kick start your LPD practice with visioning events to prospective clients, staff training and first client engagement facilitation. For more information, click here or contact Brian Lagas at brian.lagas@nist.gov , 301-975-5043.
Webinar Link
Password: mep
Call in Number: 1-866-469-3239
Meeting Number: 737 121 740
Blueprint for Action I: Workshop on the Design of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI)
January 16, 2013
U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
This regional workshop, first in a new series of workshops by the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO), provides a forum for the AMNPO to present to stakeholders the proposed design of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI or “Network”) and its regional components, Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation (IMIs or “Institutes”). The workshop will allow for public review and discussion of the proposed NNMI and IMI design, an initiative proposed by President Obama. For more information visit the manufacturing.gov webpage or contact Mark Troppe at mark.troppe@nist.gov.
Registration link
Workshop Fee: A $50 event fee
Toyota Kata Workshop and Summit hosted by Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions
January 16-17, 2013
Little Rock, Arkansas
Learn from Mike Rother, the author of "Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results"
- Obtain a basic understanding of the Toyota Improvement Kata Trajectory (i.e. Vision/Challenge, Current Condition, Target Condition, Obstacles, PDCA)
- Recognize the value of the Coaching Kata Methodology (i.e., how the Value Adders, Learner and 1st and 2nd Coaches interact via the 5 Questions)
- Gain a practitioner’s view of how the Toyota Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata can be used in conjunction with the Lean 101 “Buzz Electronics” simulation to help enhance the learning of these methodologies
For more information, click here or contact Brian Lagas at brian.lagas@nist.gov , 301-975-5043.
Principles of Lean & Green Manufacturing Workshop hosted in Delaware
January 18, 2013
A revised version of the LE101 workshop Principles of Lean Manufacturing with the Buzz Electronics simulation will be delivered by the Delaware MEP on January 18, 2013. The 'classroom' materials now include "green" related concepts including green wastes, the interrelationship between "lean and green", and specific "green".
Event Details
Location: Delaware Technical & Community College (Stanton Campus)
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $395
To register, click here. For more information, contact Sara Collins sfcollin@demep.org
NEW!! Offshore Wind – Atlantic Coast Manufacturing Opportunities
Wednesday January 23, 2013 at 1:00 Eastern/12:00 Central
This webinar is the first in a series of monthly webinars by the Clean Energy Manufacturing Center to provide MEP system staff information about manufacturing growth opportunities in clean energy markets. These will be held monthly - the fourth Wednesday of the month at 1:00 Eastern/12:00 Central. Upcoming industries will include solar, energy storage, mass transit, natural gas etc. If there is a specific market you would like to see addressed, contact Linda Nielsen at lindan@bgafoundation.org or (612) 466-4506.
Webinar Details
Webinar Link
Call in number: 1-866-469-3239
Meeting Password: CEMC
Meeting number: 730 783 016
NEW!! Intellectual Property Webinar Series: Picking the Right Global Markets
January 30, 2013
Intellectual Property webinar series –are complimentary, authoritative, monthly 90-min webinars covering all aspects of patenting, IP tactics and strategies. All past webinars have been recorded and archived on the MEP website. “Picking the Right Global Markets"(January 30, 2013) informs users of exporting and programs that are out there to help. To register for this free webinar, click here. Past IP webinar topics include: Patents 101; Securing a Patent and AIA Implementation; Researcher’s Life After Invention Disclosure; Working with a Patent Attorney/Agent and USPTO; Protecting IP in Global Markets. Information covered in this series is helpful for MEP Center staff and manufacturers pursuing growth projects that may develop or make use of technologies, designs, or other content.
NEW!! LIFT Solutions Fair
January 30, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST
Solutions Fair is a half day event that brings together small and medium sized manufacturing companies with resource representatives that are willing and able to help these companies solve problems. The resources could include specialized researchers, process experts, prototyping advisors, technology matching specialists and other types of services. The main portion of a Solutions Fair uses short (~15 min) one-on-one meetings between a company representative and a resource representative with a focus on a specific problem they are in need of solving. The companies then rotate through and meet multiple resources during the event. Click here for more information and to register.
If any other MEP Centers would like to attend or have any questions about holding an event like this, please contact: Lucy Lawlor, Events and Membership Coordinator at Long Island Forum for Technology, 631-846-2731.
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