- Completed a five-day Total Productive Maintenance event with a team of 6 people. The team reduced downtime by 70%, as well as defined and implemented autonomous maintenance and standardized work for operators, and preventative maintenance for maintenance employees.
- Conducted a one-day open-enrollment Lean Thinking and Value Stream Mapping training session for nine people.
- Conducted a multi-day Customer Service Value Stream Mapping event with a team of seven people. It is anticipated that when implemented, the plan will result in improved customer satisfaction and reduced wastes including process rework, over processing, expediting, rescheduling and changing priorities, etc.
- Conducted a four-hour Lean Thinking training session focused on identifying and improving production and administrative wastes. The training was attended by eight people.
- Conducted a presentation to sixteen Seniors at a local high school promoting manufacturing careers and developing an awareness of skills and training requirements that will meet manufacturing needs of today and the future.
- Conducted a five-day Inventory Accuracy improvement event with a team of eight people. It is anticipated that when fully implemented, the improvement will include a significant increase in inventory accuracy and reduce part shortages, and ultimately, improve delivery performance.
- Conducted an eight-hour Lean Thinking training session focused on identifying and improving production and administrative wastes. The training was attended by thirty people.
- Conducted a five-day Order-to-Delivery Value Stream Mapping event with a team of eight people at a contract manufacturing company. It is anticipated that when fully implemented, the plan will result in improved on-time deliveries and reduce wastes.
- Conducted an ISO 9001:2008 Internal Audit at a company located in Rochester. Minor findings were noted in the summary report and their Quality Management System was deemed compliant and effective.
- Conducted an ISO 9001:2008 Internal Audit at a company located in Horseheads. There were minor findings and a summary report was prepared. Their Quality Management System was deemed compliant and effective.
- Conducted an ISO 9001:2008 Internal Audit at a company located in Colliersville. There were minor findings and opportunities for improvement noted and summarized in a report. Their Quality Management System continues to be fully compliant and effective.
- Completed ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor Training at a company located in Elmira. Seven employees were trained as internal auditors and performed a mentored audit. The team identified minor non-conformance and opportunities for improvement. They prepared a summary report and all the supporting documentation. Their QMS was deemed compliant and effective.
- Provided Lean Mentoring to a company located in Stamford, by assisting with a Kaizen event for this spring.
- Led workshops for sixteen would-be entrepreneurs in Buffalo and Ithaca. Part of a series of pre-seed workshops coordinated and facilitated by AM&T, the events were hosted by the Center of Excellence Bioinformatics & Life Sciences at the University of Buffalo, and by Cornell University’s Center for Advanced Technology and Institute of Biotechnology. These week-long workshops begin and end with a day of intensive work by 6-8-person teams that are assembled to focus on the commercialization potential of each of the entrepreneurs’ ideas. The teams continue to work during the intervening week -- researching markets, competition, distribution, and many other aspects of each potential start-up business. The workshops culminated with each team presenting their conclusions to a panel of experienced industry professionals and investors.
- Developed and updated articles about regional manufacturers to highlight their capabilities in a monthly business-to-business newsletter.
- Participated in a team that put together a proposal for submission under the URI grant application to establish the Center for International Business Assistance Center to be created at SUNY Binghamton.
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