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AME (The Association for Manufacturing Excellence)The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), founded in 1985, is a not- for-profit organization dedicated to cultivating understanding, analysis and exchange of productivity methods and their successful application in the pursuit of excellence. We are practitioner-based, and our events and workshops focus on hands-on learning. AME publishes the award-winning Target magazine and puts on several regional and national events each year. |
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ASQ (The American Society for Quality)The American Society for Quality (ASQ), headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, is the world’s leading authority on quality since 1946. The 104,000-member professional association creates better workplaces and communities worldwide by advancing learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange to improve business results. By making quality a global priority, an organizational imperative, and a personal ethic, ASQ becomes the community for everyone who seeks technology, concepts, or tools to improve themselves and their world. |
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Institute of Industrial EngineersIIE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial engineering. |
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Society of Manufacturing EngineersThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is the world's leading resource Where Manufacturing Comes Together - both people and information - to advance manufacturing knowledge. |
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Client Partner Sites |
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AmanaAmana offers a full line of stylish appliances designed to make life a little easier. From the clever configuration of our refrigerators to the extra cooking capacity in our ovens – Amana appliances are full of “common sense” details you’ll appreciate every day. |
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HubbellFundamentally, Hubbell Incorporated’s commitment to electrical equipment manufacture has enabled the Company to consistently maintain its focus and apply its energies to the technology of generating, transmitting and utilizing electrical energy. Electricity is the most adaptable form of energy, and the one which will power the 21st century from basic industry to the most advanced electronic devices. The expertise developed during the first 100 years is an asset vital to the Company and its customers in the future. Or you can go directly to their financial statements by clicking here. |
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LantechIt started 32 years ago, when Pat and his brother Bill were sitting at the kitchen table, and he got the inspiration for stretch wrapping from a rubber band wound around his finger. Using a brake from a Ford Falcon and a shock absorber from a Harley Davidson, the first stretch wrapping machine was built. |
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Maytag (LeanSigma)Recently named one of America's Most Admired companies, Maytag Corporation is a $4.7 billion home and commercial appliance company, headquartered in Newton, Iowa. With approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Maytag is committed to growth through innovation and backed by these well-known premium brand products. |
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PellaPella Corporation is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of premium-quality windows, entry door systems, storm doors and patio doors, producing these unique brands of products: Pella, ThermaStar by Pella™, and Viking. |
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WIKAWIKA Instrument Corporation is a complete pressure and temperature measurement resource, offering comprehensive instrumentation solutions. WIKA manufactures a broad variety of pressure gauges, diaphragm seals, transmitters, and thermometers with services and accessories to complete the offering. |
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Lean Learning |
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TBM LeanSigma® InstituteThe TBM LeanSigma Institute offers a range of interactive workshops that will give your business teams the necessary tools to launch your own Lean initiative – or invigorate and accelerate one already in motion. Your instructors are senior TBM consultants who have spent a minimum of ten years implementing Lean improvement, rooted in the fundamentals of the Toyota Production System. |
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Lean Enterprise InstituteLEI offers Lean Community members a wide and growing range of resources for sharing knowledge and applying lean principles in traditional and nontraditional environments. |
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Resources We Use (or Recommend) |
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Decision Capture: QFD SoftwareDECISIONcapture software allows you to setup a "Roadmap" plan for reaching the best decision outcome based on your criteria. Then - using a Decision matrix approach called QFD - the criteria for the decision are translated into a prioritized set of actions, targets, or choices. |
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Intermedium GroupThe IM Group - As clients make investments in training, new capital, new technologies, and/or new facilities, The IM Group helps clients to lower costs by obtaining government financial benefits. These benefits include both statutory and negotiated benefits such as training grants, loans (low-interest and forgivable), credits and other incentives. Minimally, clients should expect profit impacts of $350 per employee. Principal client contact is with operating management at the corporate, divisional and in-state business unit levels. The IM Group also works closely with managers in Corporate Learning, Human Resources, Legal, Tax and Government Relations. |
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Lean InnovationsLEAN Innovations specializes in high quality standard and custom toolboard designs, as well as other “Point of Use” tool storage systems. |
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Lean SupermarketCompanies implementing Lean manufacturing techniques often waste valuable time, money, and resources searching for materials and tools to assist with their implementations. We found that to be our experience through 10 years of implementing Lean. Hence the idea for the Lean Supermarket was created. The Lean Supermarket offers a variety of products that support Lean manufacturing implementations all in one place and at a low cost. |
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Lockwood GreeneLockwood Greene is America's oldest professional services firm in continuous operation for industrial and power engineering and construction. With headquarters in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Lockwood Greene serves U.S.-based Fortune 500 and international companies around the globe, including North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Lockwood Greene serves the manufacturing, process, power and institutional markets. |
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Mindfire InteractiveMindfire Interactive is an agency specializing in internet marketing, web development, and branding services. We create and implement effective internet strategies to build brand awareness, generate leads, and increase revenue - with a measurable ROI structure. Our managed marketing solution provides a results driven structure to drive B2B and B2C leads to websites and convert them into customers. We offer solutions for medium sized businesses as well as enterprise customers. |
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MinitabMINITAB Statistical Software is the ideal package for Six Sigma and other quality improvement projects. From Statistical Process Control to Design of Experiments, it offers you the methods you need to implement every phase of your quality project, along with features like StatGuide™ and ReportPad™ that help you understand and communicate your results. No package is more accurate, reliable, or easy to use. |
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Padilla Speer Beardsley New York (PSB) Public RelationsPSB is a national, award-winning public relations firm that provides comprehensive marketing communications programs for a wide array of enterprises. An extension of PSB’s national headquarters in Minneapolis, PSB New York is driven by specific industry experience in manufacturing, financial and professional services, B2B and consumer products. PSB has a significant learning curve about the lean business culture working with TBM and TBM partners worldwide over 10 years to expand LeanSigma awareness. PSB has generated significant market visibility for companies involved with lean manufacturing and the global supply chain. Our integrated publicity programs focus on creating thought leadership platforms for clients that reach major media and industry influentials through highly innovative, proactive, value adding campaigns. As a founding member of The Worldcom Public Relations Group, our reach for our clients extends worldwide. |
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Stiles AssociatesStiles Associates is the leader in executive search for the Lean Enterprise. For more than a decade they have helped the world's most progressive companies build exceptional Lean management teams. With offices in New London, N.H. and New York, Stiles Associates researches, recruits and selects qualified candidates in the United States and abroad. |
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