Session #1:
Creatively LEAN –Coloring Our Way to Quality
Come join us as we go to work for Coloring Pages Inc. “Where Coloring Changes Lives”. Coloring Pages Inc. has quality problems and has requested our help.
Join in while Paul Harbath and Chris Hayes from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) of Utah use a creative approach to teach the concept of Standardized Work. This entertaining exercise is aimed at process analysis and improvement and how Standardized Work can insure that the customer gets what they want, on-time, every time.
Standardized Work is considered a critical component of continuous improvement. Like continuous improvement, it is not rigid and is intended to be changed by the value-add associates on the production floor as they improve their processes. In these times of turnover and training challenges, Standardized Work becomes even more significant. It can get employees connected to their jobs and the company more quickly and insure they have the tools to do their jobs right - the first time. Standardized Work becomes the basis for future product and process improvement and allows a company to gain the competitive advantage.
So, get ready to have some fun while learning some new exciting concepts that will help your own organizations as they strive for continuous improvement and superior product quality.
About Our Speakers…
Paul Harbath received his BSME from Colorado State University and is a Senior Field Engineer with the Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership. He specializes in lean production system implementation. Paul has 20 years experience in high volume manufacturing including precision electronic component manufacturing, tier 3 automotive electronic subassembly supply and manufacturing of consumer furniture. He is currently Chair of the ASQ Golden Spike Chapter and has held ASQ CQE and CQM certifications. He has Bronze Lean Certification through SME and the Visual-Lean® Institute licenses him to deliver the Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking Briefing. Paul lives in Ogden, Utah with his family and enjoys playing music with his two teenage daughters in various venues along the Wasatch front.
Chris Hayes is a Senior Field Engineer with the Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) where she enjoys working with, educating, and assisting Utah manufactures in the implementation of Lean concepts. Chris has 15 years of quality management experience in both the manufacturing and distribution service industry. She is currently Chair Elect for the ASQ Golden Spike Chapter. Chris holds a BSBA in Project Management with certifications as a Quality Auditor, Project Management Specialist, Human Resource Development specialist, Organizational Systems Improvemen Specialist, and has attained Bronze Lean Certification Level. Chris lives in Morgan, Utah with her husband and five daughters. Together, they enjoy biking, hiking, and photography. |
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Session #2:
Creative Brainstorming – The Six Thinking Hats
What happens in the brainstorming sessions you usually attend? Are they lackluster? Unorganized? Boring? Chaotic? Do they produce unusable results? Promote organizational differences? Turn into a power struggle?
If you want to prevent these potentially disastrous results from happening and make your brainstorming sessions more productive, join Cheryl Marzec and Tina Vigos (your dependable and amiable ASQ Salt Lake Section Board members) as they explore the art of parallel thinking by using the Six Thinking Hats exercise.
You will be amazed and delighted to see how deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker and how it improves the synergy and performance of any team. So, come ready to bend your brain just a bit and be willing to try on a few hats in the process!
About Our Speakers…
Cheryl Marzec founded Marzec and Associates, Inc. in 1995, and specializes in ISO 9000 consulting, assessing and training. Her ISO 9000 experience began with the initial standard, which was released in 1987 and continues to the current revision. When working with a company, her goal is to help them develop a management system that reflects their company culture, improves the quality of their product or service, and doesn’t bury them in non productive documentation. Her affiliations include ASQ Certified Quality Auditor and she is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). She worked with Salt Lake Community College to develop their ISO 9000 Quality System Management course and continues to teach these courses to her clients.
Tina Vigos is a Senior ASQ member and is a Certified Manager of Quality & Organizational Excellence and a Certified Quality Auditor through ASQ. She has over 20 years of quality management experience. Her extensive career has covered every facet of quality, including manufacturing and receiving quality control, quality and reliability engineering, material review, statistical process control, supplier certification, qualityprogram management andquality system/improvement implementation. Tina earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Utah and is currently working as a senior quality engineer and lead auditor at Groen Brothers Aviation in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Session #3:
A Creative Approach to Problem Solving
Which problem solving tools should I use? When is the right time to use them? Do I have the right skills to solve these problems? Who can teach me? Guess what!?! This interactive session presented by Chris Bodily from Autoliv provides the answers to these questions and more! There really are problem solving alternatives to the traditional methods of brainstorming and educated guessing. Subject matter knowledge and strategy have roles in the investigation process too. Are you ready to learn the key principles that will increase the likelihood of successful problem solving outcomes? If the answer is yes, then hold on – this session promises to be a fun ride!
About Our Speaker…
Chris Bodily joined Autoliv’s Central Quality group in 2002 and is currently the Reliability Manager for their North America operations. Prior to joining Autoliv, Chris worked in the chemical, pharmaceutics, and bio-tech industries for companies like Glaxo Wellcome, DuPont and Becton Dickinson technologies. He earned his bachelors and masters degrees in statistics from Brigham Young University, and a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University. He is a member of the Golden Spike Section of ASQ, is an ASQ-certified reliability engineer, and a professional Dad (which provides for many problem solving opportunities!) |
