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Lean Immersion Workshop – 03rd May 2018 (Athlone)
Ever wonder how lean applies in your environment? This one-day workshop provides attendees with a complete immersion in lean manufacturing practices. Attendees will learn, through role play and practical exercises, how lean enables superior customer…
Engineers Ireland annual conference: 13th April 2018 (Limerick)
Engineers Ireland Annual Conference 2018 will take place on Friday, 13th April 2018 in The Strand Hotel, Limerick. The conference speakers will present on the topic of ‘Engineering a Region’ under three distinct sub-themes: Industry…
Effective networking at learning events
With the wide range of Operational Excellence seminars and conferences available in Ireland at the moment, there little excuse for not understanding continuous improvement best practice. This 9 minute video provides great guidance for the…
Lean Six Sigma skills in demand in the Irish Jobs Market
A quick trawl of the website IrishJobs.ie, using the search strings ‘lean’ and ‘six sigma’, for all jobs in all locations, yielded 463 and 255 hits, respectively. See https://leanireland.ie/cordatus-training-courses/. Organisations in Ireland, across all sectors, are obviously…
Tech Tip: Hypothesis testing
Have I made a difference? Often our perception deceives us when eager to identify change! Click on the title link to check out this Khan Academy video on identifying process changes with statistical confidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FtlH4svqx4
Improving packaging quality in Medical Device
At the Boston Scientific Costa Rica facility, packaging engineer Daniel Calvo Camacho led an effort to streamline packaging for guidewires, with the introduction of a new, smaller plastic pouch. Data collection and analysis was critical…
Tech Tip: Pareto Charting
Little did Pareto know how useful his chart would become to problem solvers. See how to construct a Pareto chart in Excel by clicking on the link https://www.pryor.com/blog/creating-a-pareto-chart-in-excel/.
National Engineers’ Week: 24th February – 2nd March 2018
Engineers Week is a week-long festival of nationwide events celebrating the world of engineering in Ireland. The annual event is coordinated on a national basis by Engineers Ireland’s STEPS programme -funded under Science Foundation Ireland’s…
Ireland’s competitiveness: IDA year end results 2017
IDA Ireland client companies employ 210,443 people in Ireland. On January 5th last the IDA published its 2017 End of Year results. Click on the link to view the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzlcjp7R4q8&utm_source=IDA+Ezine+Subscriber+list&utm_campaign=0a08cf71bc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9ad0e1bba1-0a08cf71bc-228108929
Workplace visualisation: Online course with Gemba Academy
To see this simple series of well-illustrated videos on workplace visual management, click here.