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Upcoming meetings:

Oct 21	Achieve Strategic Breakthroughs and Increase Profits with Hoshin Planning 8:30am – 4:30pm Catered lunch provided Register here Center Place Auditorium 2426 N. Discovery Place Spokane Valley, WA
Sept 29 - Oct 1	2010 Pacific Northwest Purchasing Conference being hosted by NAPM-Spokane and being held at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino on September 29 – October 1st. Don’t wait!!!! The Early Bird Registration deadline is fast approaching…. August 27th! This is a great way to earn your CEPs without having to pay for travel, hotel, per diem…..
Sept 23	Special Event - September 23rd 3M - Journey to Operational Excellence
Sept 17	The LMC is offering our second Fall Golf Outing this September 17^th! This event is designed to promote further collaboration among members and guests while having a little fun in the process. Exact Tee Times to-be-announced but range from noon to 12:45 at Indian Canyon Golf Course Register Here
May 27	5th Anniversary Meeting!!!!!!!
Apr 22	Situational Leadership by Peggy Blowers
Mar 25	Panel Discussion Our distinguished panel will be composed of the following: Chris Wood founder of TenX Jim Christopher Metal Storage Operations Manager at Kimball International Todd Ryan Senior Lean Leader at Kim Hotstart, formerly with Genie Rendall Farley Lean Facilitator at Alliance Machine Systems This is an extremely talented panel, so please bring your staff members or co-workers. In this meeting, hosted by John Dickson we will have 4 of the area leaders in Lean implementation address open questions on a range of topics direct from the audience in an ‘open’ format. Below is an example of the topics we may spend some time on How do we get people throughout the operation more engaged? What are ways we can create incentives that are measurable and sustainable? What are recommendations for getting suppliers and even customers more involved with Lean Efforts? How do we develop standard work while promoting creativity in the workplace? What are some techniques used for incorporating manufacturability and quality at the source into overall product design? Please join us for this event and plan some questions in advance to be a part of a very engaging discussion on ways you can improve your Lean/Sigma efforts! As always bring your business cards for the drawing and networking. We’ll cover the parking!
Feb 25	Training Within Industry (TWI) by John Dickson and Structured On-the-Job Training (S-OJT) by Dr. Robert Ketchum, Ph.D.
Jan 28	Compliance Inspections & Consultation Services Presentation by Mary Yakawich and Becky Pierson Video: Don't Do This Video: PTO Entanglement
Jan 7th, 2010	APICS Inventory Control Workshop Series - Cycle Counting information Sheet
Dec 10th	Ken Lambie from Kimball on Cellular Layout and Design
Past Meetings:
Oct 28-9th	Special Event – October 28th and 29^th This fall we are privileged to bring another renowned guest speaker to Spokane, Dr. Durward Sobek, who will lead us in half-day seminars covering A3 reports and lean product development. Additionally, Dr. Sobek will facilitate an executive round-table discussion on leading the lean enterprise.
Oct 22nd	Excel - how to set up and use macros by Paul Malen
Sep 25th	Golf at Indian Canyon - lunch to be served 11:30 and tee times start at 12:45. Cost $35, which includes golf, lunch and a sleeve of balls.
Sep 24th	IT for Dummies, by Daniel Swartz of Design IT Group
Sep 18th	LMC Tour at Goodrich - Spokane There will be 2 tours in order to accommodate the expected number of people. Friday, September 18^th at 10 am and the second at 1 pm Both tours will last about 90 minutes, and are limited to 2 people per company or organization. Goodrich has a number of very strict policies for guests, and only US Citizens are eligible to attend. Due to this, the sign-up process is as follows – * E-mail Leslie your request with the time you wish to attend and the names of participants * Once approved (within limits of number of people for that time slot), she will e-mail you a request confirmation and a questionnaire on behalf of Goodrich. * You must fill out the questionnaire and send directly to the Goodrich security office for their review, at least one week prior to the event date. Note, this is MANDATORY. Goodrich is the only wheel and brake supplier with three carbon production facilities, and is the largest producer of carbon for commercial aircraft. In addition to the newest high-tech manufacturing in Spokane, Washington, Goodrich produces carbon material in plants in Pueblo, Colorado and Santa Fe Springs, California. With over 60 years' experience and more than 20,000 aircraft equipped with our wheels and brakes, airlines and aircraft manufacturers worldwide look to Goodrich for unrivalled insight and technological expertise to support their ever-changing needs. Goodrich Aircraft Wheels and Brakes' objective is to partner with our customers to “be the best” by offering a cost-effective, sustainable product to compete in this challenging aerospace market. Goodrich Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a global supplier of systems and services to aerospace, defense and homeland security markets. With one of the most strategically diversified portfolios of products in the industry, Goodrich serves a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and service facilities. For more information, visit http://www.goodrich.com.
Aug 21st	WSU auditorium from 2 to 4 pm for MOVIE DAY!
May 28th	LMC's 4th Anniversary…it does not seem possible.. We had 3 excellent presenters for this occasion… Ezra Eckhardt from Sterling Savings, Dr. Michael Rowney, Ten X Ventures, and Dr. Donald Spencer from the City of Spokane. Great Infromation! Great People! Great Eats! Presentations: Ezra Eckhardt - Sterling Savings Bank Michael J. Rowney PhD - Ten X Ventures Don Spencer, Ph.D. - City of Spokane
May 14th 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm	Tour of CDA Metals located at 3900 E. Broadway, Spokane, WA.
April 16 - 17	The Lean Office with Karen Martin, pioneer of metrics-based process mapping method & author of "The Kaizen Event Planner"
March 26th	The Road to Lean by Lois J. Quinn, Rapid Operational Improvement
February 27th	A tour of Sonderen Packaging, located at 2906 N Crestline St. Spokane, WA 99207. For details of this event, please click here.
January 22nd	The Lean Management System – Leader Standard Work, Visual Controls & the Daily Accountability Process presented by Jim Christopher, Lean Promotion Office, Kimball Office, Post Falls


Last Year's (2008) meetings:
January 24th	Quality Management/Six Sigma Presented by Frank Hutchison, SIRTI
February 28th	Work Standardization by Jim Whanger, Goodrich
March 27th	Set-up Reduction by Gary Alvarado, TechHelp
April 24th	The 8 Steps of Flow and ‘PQ’ Analysis by Dave Ross, Ten-X Consulting
May 22nd	An Overview of A3 Thinking – A Critical Component of Toyota’s PDCA Management System by Chris Wood
September 25th	Supply Chain Overview by Ray Ramos, Buck Knives
October 9th	Lean Finance and Administration Workshop
December 11th	Eureka Winning Ways by Gary Alvarado

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