Coming in October to Springfield !
Celebrating their 10th year!
When: Wednesday & Thursday, October 1-2, 2014
Where: The Mass Mutual Center, Springfield MA
This year’s theme is “Leading, Enabling And Nurturing: Putting People First”. The event will feature lean leaders from manufacturing, healthcare and other types of organizations that are using lean to stay competitive in the global marketplace.
Innovative format features keynotes, general sessions, panel discussions, virtual plant tours, hands-on lean tool simulations and games, a book store and author signings, the Silver Toaster Award Presentation, and the Community of Lean Lounge – an awesome place for networking and benchmarking.
“Our team loved the conference and we are looking forward to sending another group next year. You folks put on quite an informative and fun show!” – John G., Avery Dennison, Quakertown PA
Click HERE for more information about the L.E.A.N. Conference
Click HERE to read more and register.
Click HERE to download the prospectus.
What is GBMP?
GBMP is your one-stop resource for Continuous Improvement education and facilitation. GBMP stands for the “Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership” but we work with companies all over the world.
Mission & Vision & Values:
It is the mission of GBMP, as a not for profit, to sustain a strong and vibrant regional economy by improving the operational profitability and competitiveness of existing and emerging organizations, large and small, through training in lean and continuous improvement principles. By promoting successful implementations and providing outreach to aid in investment decisions pertaining to our client’s operations, GBMP will help perpetuate a positive future for industry.
Our vision is to be a leading contributor in strengthening industry and increasing employment opportunities in the Northeast.
GBMP’s values include True North Orientation, Experience, Mutual Respect, Professionalism, Collaboration and Community Service.
Based at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, GBMP is a non-profit corporation that has worked with hundreds of companies, providing suggestions and solutions resulting in millions in cost savings and increased sales. Each year GBMP trains over 7000 people on Continuous Improvement principles through customized, on-site classroom and shop-floor training sessions and educates over 1000 more people in public workshops, plant tours and the Manufacturing Roundtable Speaker Series.
About GBMP:
What is Continuous Improvement?
Continuous Improvement connects your employees to your customers by finding and eliminating non-value-added activities, those things the customer doesn’t want to pay for, in all areas of your business. The key to success is the understanding that Continuous Improvement is all about people. Your employees are in the best position to identify and solve all the little problems that are manifested throughout your business processes. Given a little education and the proper support and encouragement, employees can find and eliminate all the headaches and time anchors that currently prevent you from delighting your customers.
Continuous Improvement is about creating an environment where employees can make changes that allow them to spend more time on those things your customers want to pay for!
Take a moment to think about your facility as you read the following seven forms of waste:
• Defects
• Waiting
• Movement
• Inventory
• Processing
• Transportation
• Overproduction
GBMP’s goal is to educate, empower and energize your people and change the way they think and work to strive to eliminate the seven forms of waste from your processes!
Click HERE to watch a video about GBMP’s approach and philosophy toward continuous improvement and lean training.