This Month's Workshop

Achieve Dramatic Improvements in Quality, Waste Reduction and Velocity in Your Organization   Keith Boyle, Principal Consultant Quality & Productivity Resources

Abstract

Have you implemented Lean in your organization and continue to produce defects?

Have you implemented Six-Sigma or other quality improvements but are not satisfied with the slow throughput, long cycle times and excess inventories? Attend this Professional Development Meeting and learn how to combine the speed of Lean with the quality of Six-Sigma.

Why choose one improvement initiative when you can create win-win by combining two! Many organizations resist the temptation to introduce more than one improvement strategy based on competing funding and resource allocations that have kept the initiatives divided. Keith’s presentation will show you how to implement the dramatic productivity improvements of the lean enterprise while gaining extraordinary improvements in product quality and reduction in product and service variation.
Surrounding these two approaches to improving customer satisfaction and profitability is a lot of confusion, which this presentation will clarify by focusing on:

•  Understanding the two approaches of Lean and Six-Sigma

•  Defining the compatibility of the approaches

•  Learning how Lean techniques can help you identify Six-Sigma opportunities and how to use Six-Sigma to eliminate waste

•  How to define the rules that determine which tools to use

•  Finding the best practice model and roadmap for Lean and Six-Sigma deployment for your organization

•  What’s next - beyond Lean Six-Sigma?

Specific client examples will be provided that will share the approach and results of several local companies in their Lean Six-Sigma journey including critical keys for success and areas to avoid to ensure rapid effective implementation.

About Our Presenter

Keith Boyle is an internationally recognized facilitation professional and principal consultant with Quality & Productivity Resources – a consulting company assisting organizations achieve performance excellence. He has spent over twenty-five years working with manufacturing, high technology and service organizations in North America, Asia and Europe - dramatically improving their quality and productivity. He is a Baldrige National Quality Award Senior Examiner, a member of the California Quality Award board of examiners, a Certified Manufacturing Engineer, APICS CIRM Certified and a Registered Professional Engineer.

Prior to founding QPR he spent over ten years as Manager, Total Quality Assurance for Solar Turbines and provided global leadership to their winning application in the 1998 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. His international experience encompasses the corporate roll-out of Lean Six-Sigma throughout organizations, Operations, Quality, Process and Project Management and he specializes in lean enterprise and manufacturing, new product and service development, process management, business process engineering and strategic business excellence.

Keith has been an instructor with University of California San Diego since 1997 for both on-campus and in-house contract courses and has provided instruction and facilitation in the US and on international assignments. He was honored the prestigious Outstanding Instructor Award for Engineering and Science from UCSD in 2000. He is the Academic Coordinator and Lead Instructor for the UCSD Six-Sigma Institute and the UCSD Institute for the Lean Enterprise.

Dinner will be served promptly at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00 PM

Location:   Ericsson Building

Time: 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM   

Address:  6455 Lusk Boulevard , San Diego, CA92121

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please fill out and submit the following on-line form and bring a check to the meeting, or you can mail this form with the check made out to ASQ, San Diego Section 0703 to   * spaces are mandatory. 

Upcoming Workshops (Chronological Order):

TOPIC / Link	Taught By	Date	Cost	Contact
"Combining Lean and Six-Sigma"	Keith Boyle	August 27, 2003	$50/$60	Don Griego
Overview of Strategic Planning with Hoshin Kanri	Pete Babich	September 24, 2003	$50/$60	Don Griego
ISO 13485	James E. Stanley, MS Regulatory/Clinical Consultants, Inc.	October	$50/$60	Don Griego
No workshop in November due to Thanksgiving holidays
No workshop in December due to Christmas holidays
"better thinking about thinking"   Also see past talk: Inthinking & Enterprise Thinking Concepts	William Bellows, Ph.D. with Inthinking	January 28, 2004	$50/$60	Don Griego
Open		Feb. and beyond	$50/$60	Don Griego
Short Run Techniques of SPC Charting	Bill Evans	Backup	$50 Members with Reservation, $60 "Non Member/Day of the Event"	Don Griego
If you or your company has special education needs or special interests in hosting or presenting a workshop, please contact Don Griego.

Past Workshops (Reverse Chronological Order):           

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