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CBIA’S LEAN MANUFACTURING PROGRAM HELPS TWO COMPANIES SAVE NEARLY $2 MILLION
Five employees of TRUMPF Inc., in Farmington and fourteen employees of Wiremold/Legrand in West Hartford, recently completed a certificate program in Lean Manufacturing at Tunxis Community College in Farmington. This hands-on project-based program taught by a lean specialist from CONNSTEP, a consulting, training and educational resource for manufacturers, generated nearly $2 million in savings for the companies. The savings were achieved by streamlining processes and schedules, increasing productivity and eliminating waste.
The Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA) established the program within the state’s community college system to train workers in lean manufacturing and supply chain management. It also provides advanced machining training using simulation and is geared toward training current and dislocated workers as well as college students.
"Together, we can help Connecticut’s manufacturers remain healthy and competitive with the highly skilled workforce needed to navigate the increasing demands of a growing global marketplace,” said Nancy Castonguay, CBIA grant manager.
CBIA administers the grant in partnership with Aerospace Components Manufacturers; the Metal Manufacturers Cluster Initiative; RENEW, Mass.; the Connecticut Community College System and its College of Technology and Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; the Workforce Alliance; the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board; Capital Workforce Partners; the Workplace Inc.; the Regional Employment Board of Hamden County Inc., Mass.; the Connecticut Departments of Labor and Economic and Community Development.
The program is funded through a $1.77 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to help train Connecticut workers in manufacturing jobs. CBIA was one of 11 organizations in 10 states chosen to receive the advanced manufacturing job training grant as part of the President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative.
The BMP71 Label Printer is Brady's most versatile mobile labeler for on-the-job printing, with color display, hundreds of symbols and graphics including bar codes and 200 MB of storage. With multiple label printer applications, like wire and cable identification, barcode labeling, lean and 5s marking, the BMP71 label printer is the ideal printer for a job site, even if there's no access to electricity.
Brady's IP Thermal Transfer Printer is a high performance label printing solution with 300 dpi or 600dpi and automatic formatting system that can easily create and print labels, sleeves, barcodes, text, graphics and tags. Thermal transfer printing burns the ink onto the label material to ensure longer-lasting identification.
From left to right (back row):
John Connolly, Latex International
Carmen Brickner, CLEARbrick, Inc. (trainer)
David Cooney, Web Industries
Ed Martins, Web Industries
Ben Diaz, Hobson Motzer
Beth Hunt, CONNSTEP
From left to right (front row):
Drew Abbott, Macton
Millie De Los Santos, Latex International
Ed Wilson, Orange Research
Tom Yother, Hobson Motzer
Brady's MarkWare EXPRESS Software sign and label making program is the simple solution for do-it-yourself sign-making. The Brady sign and label making program is designed for use on a PC, the software template wizard takes users through the creation process to quickly be able to design professional-looking signs, labels, tags, safety and identification signage.
Vedzen Institute is a Group of Lean Practitioners with Hands-on Production, Operations and Management Experience in implementing Kaizen in India, and overseas specializing in Japanese production techniques such as JIT/SMED/Poka-Yoke//KANBAN/TPM/One Piece Flow. vedzen.com
Vedzen Institute India be positive at all time.For continous improvement taking kaizen workshop with lean and six sigma tools for more details visit to vedzen.com
Class Summer Drinks photo contest with Lenzr an online photo contest and the prize winner receives $400 worth of steel containers thanks to an ice cube trays company
Rapid growth raises the specter of manufacturing scalability which, if not properly addressed, can quickly negate top line successes. A new online video highlights this challenge and how Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. responded to it to ensure that desired customer satisfaction metrics were achieved.
In the video, the gearmotor manufacturer's executive vice president, George Thomas, comments on Bison's "Lean 2.0" journey, which includes integration of demand planning and master scheduling to achieve level loading of the Illinois manufacturer's increased production capacity. "At Bison, PRIDE means People Relentless in Delivering Excellence. To ensure customers receive that excellence, Bison developed a three-element PRIDE rating to measure customer satisfaction," said Thomas. "We're focused not only on overall on-time delivery percentage, but also the customer-centric metrics of change order acceptance rate and product approval rating in the field."
The three minute video, titled "Changes in Manufacturing Raise the Bar", can be viewed at BisonGear.com.
Tom Southworth of CONNSTEP discusses how TWI helps to sustain Lean Manufacturing gains.
Photo courtesy of P.Deuth for ASQ Hartford Connecticut Section 103.
Vedzen Institute India be positive at all time.For continous improvement taking kaizen workshop with lean and six sigma tools for more details visit to vedzen.com
An unusual field trip from work as Brandon and I attended the Lean Manufacturing course through SFMADE. The class was held at the Tech Shop just up the street from the Roastery. I used the change of venue as an opportunity to try a different BART stop (Powell) and to get some coffee from the Blue Bottle at Mint Plaza. Yep.
Meanwhile, we've been learning the tenets of lean through an exercise with legos. It sounds silly, but actually the demonstrations were very effective. There's some teamwork involved, but individual action is also important. Now we just need to apply what we've learned.
A Manufacturing Process photo contest online with Lenzr with a chance to win monetary prize for your picture license to be used on the process manufacturing and lean manufacturing company website.
From left to right:
Tom Southworth (trainer), CONNSTEP
Terry Manning, Danbury Hospital
Wanda Langan, FAST Co.
Mark Johnston, Spartech Polycast
Ben Thomas, OEM Controls
John Owen, FAST Co.
Ray Toothill, FAST Co.
Dave Long (trainer), CONNSTEP
Congressman Courtney talks with Dymotek on how Lean has helped make them more efficient and open up opportunities in new markets.
Vincent Morando of Dymotek shows Congressman Courtney and Bonnie Del Conte the new technology allowing Dymotek to increase speed to market with new products.
Operational excellence enables an enterprise and its leadership to continuously improve all areas of performance, including decision-making, ongoing investment. vedzen.com
Tom Southworth, certified TWI trainer, works with a student to train on how to tie an underwriter's knot through the TWI Job Instruction program.
Photo courtesy of P.Deuth for ASQ Hartford Connecticut Section 103