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Value Stream Mapping - DVD

Egronomic Safety - DVD

Part of the Manufacturing Insights (MI) DVD series. This video on ergonomic safety will explain the benefits of a successful ergonomic safety program. Interviews with Tom Leamon, Liberty Mutual, and Marvin Dainoff, Director of the Center for Ergonomics at Miami University give the viewer an understanding of the problems with ergonomics in industry.

PRICE: $350.00

Focusing Ideas on What Matters Most Disk 6 of 8

Once a good process to handle ideas is in place, a manufacturer can focus employee ideas on those problems or opportunities most critical to its lean initiative.

This DVD shows how, instead of limiting the number of ideas workers offer, focusing employee thinking actually results in more and better ideas.

PRICE: $133.75

Fundementals of Manufacturing Cell Planning Training Package

The ability to effectively plan a manufacturing cell is a fundamental skill needed by every supervisor, team leader, and manufacturing engineer. SME is proud to announce this valuable new training package created to help you do just that. It includes 3 DVDs, a textbook, and a workbook, which are based upon a proven and widely-used method called Systematic Planning of Manufacturing Cells (SPMC).
Together these materials comprise a ready to use kit for introducing, expanding, and improving the use of cells in your plant.

PRICE: $998.75

Getting More and Better Ideas - 7 of 8

This DVD shows how to increase the quantity and quality of the ideas workers come up with. It demonstrates proven approaches to getting more and better ideas, including how to use "idea activators" to illuminate previously invisible problems and opportunities. .

PRICE: $100.00

Introduction to Lean Manufacturing - 3 disks

Introduction to Lean Manufacturing: You can use this program to introduce the concept of lean manufacturing to everyone in your organization so they can become more involved in the transition from mass production to lean production. This program explains the core philosophy behind lean manufacturing, and gives insight into why so many companies are adopting the lean principles.

PRICE: $373.00

Lean Tooling Package

You can use this program to introduce the concept of lean manufacturing to everyone in your organization so they can become more involved in the transition from mass production to lean production.

PRICE: $350.00

Leaning the Supply Chain

Andrew Feller, Director Supply Chain Services, KinetX, Inc. speaks of the rapid improvement of operations across the supply chain and shows how these improvements can be enabled by structured mapping of processes across organizational boundaries.

PRICE: $75.00

Liberating and Transforming: Employee Ideas & Lean Culture

Many manufacturers struggle with dysfunctional cultures that undermine their lean initiatives.

No matter how hard managers work to improve trust, respect, commitment and involvement, these are difficult to get a handle on because they are intangible. But a strong flow of ideas dramatically improves an organization's culture. And ideas can be measured and managed.

PRICE: $56.25

Making Ideas a Central Part of Work

A century ago, Frederick Taylor taught that a manager's job was to think, and a worker's job was to do. Today, many manufacturers still operate this way. Their workers check their brains at the door.

This DVD explains how "lean leaders" make ideas explicitly part of everyone's job. Workers are expected to come up with them, managers are held accountable for their success in getting ideas, and the company's policies, structures and operating practices are designed to smooth the way for ideas, rather than to obstruct them.

PRICE: $100.00

The Characteristics of Good Process

To handle large numbers of ideas cost-effectively, a manufacturer must evaluate and implement them in an efficient manner. While every manager must design a process specifically for the needs of his or her unit, every effective approach follows the same basic principles.

PRICE: $100.00

The Power of Small Ideas - 2 of 8

Despite the attraction of big and dramatic ideas, this DVD demonstrates why it is much smarter to go after small ones.

It is impossible to achieve excellence in many aspects of performance - such as productivity, quality, responsiveness, customer service and safety - without getting the little things right.

Furthermore, because big ideas are usually highly visible, rivals often quickly counter them. But small ideas tend to remain proprietary. Large numbers of them accumulate into a significant cushion of sustainable competitive advantage.

PRICE: $100.00

The Secret of Getting Ideas from Employees

Front-line employees see many problems and opportunities that their managers don't, but most organisations fail to tap into this extraordinary potential source of revenue enhancement and savings--generating ideas.

Taped live at "The Secrets of Getting Lean Ideas from Employees" Conference, leading industrry professionals Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder present their views on Lean. Learn how front-line ideas are key to a truly lean production.

PRICE: $562.50

Toast Kaizen - An Introduction to Lean Principles

In this enjoyable but effective training tool, the simple process of making toast is used to represent the before condition and the target condition of a manufacturing or transaction-based process. It helps you understand basic but key elements of lean thinking, such as kaizen, the seven wastes and direct observation. Whether you are already on the Continuous Improvement journey or you are just beginning to realize the power of continuous improvement implementation, this video is an essential learning tool for your entire workforce.

PRICE: $123.75

What About Rewards for the Ideas - 3 of 8

Whenever managers start to think about how to promote ideas, the question of rewards comes up.

The most common reward schemes - percentage rewards based on the value of each idea - substantially increase the cost, time and effort needed to evaluate ideas, and create a host of unanticipated disincentives for people to offer ideas.

PRICE: $100.00

What is an idea?

Many manufacturers put great effort into their lean initiatives, but never realise the vision of performance excellence.

This DVD shows how the secret to success in lean production is the ability to get large numbers of employee ideas.

Both office and production workers see many problems and opportunities their managers miss. They have lots of ideas to save money and improve efficiency. The leanest companies in the world routinely implement more than twenty ideas per employee per year. The DVD concludes with an overview of the concepts in the rest of the series.

PRICE: $100.00