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Bogdon & Gross hosted BWA’s April Plant Tour Focus Group with an exercise for Continuous Improvement! Read on to learn more! The Bluewater Wood Alliance conducts regular facilitated plant tour focus groups where members get to see and experience another wood manufacturing operations while also focusing on a challenge that the host is experiencing to drive waste out of their process. These events begin with a review of Lean Principles, the Value Stream Map, and how they apply to the various wastes in production and some of the Lean Tools used to reduce that waste. This is followed by a...
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Bogdon & Gross hosted BWA's April Plant Tour Focus Group with an exercise for Continuous Improvement! Read on to learn more! The Bluewater Wood Alliance conducts regular facilitated plant tour focus groups where members get to see and experience another wood manufacturing operations while also focusing on a challenge that the host is experiencing to drive waste out of their process. These events begin with a review of Lean Principles, the Value Stream Map, and how they apply to the various wastes in production and some of the Lean Tools used to reduce that waste. This is followed by a...
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The first of our new ongoing Plant Tour Focus Groups kicked off this week with a tour of Crate Designs in Chesley. Read on to learn about the great learning opportunity this forum provides! The winter driving gave everyone a break Feb 6 with sunny skies as 18 BWA manufacturing members traveled the region to participate in our Plant tour focus group hosted by Crate Designs. The format of these meetings is for the host to provide an overview of their business model, followed by presenting a challenge to the group to provide feedback. In addition, members are asked to...
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Plant tour focus groups are another new forum to engage with members and share best practices! They are now scheduled for 2013! Plant tour focus groups are a venue where the host company can share their current successes and challenges with other manufacturing members. Specifically, hosts can actually pose a challenge for visiting members to get feedback on real manufacturing issues and opportunities. This format has proven to be very effective to provide value to the host who experiences fresh outside eyes for guidance, but also for the visiting manufacturer. The visiting member will soon realize that they and the...
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