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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Savannah, GA | Posted: October 11, 2012
Georgia Tech Professional Education will conduct a Lean and Safe: Safety-Integrated Process Improvement course (MFG 2003) Nov. 6-8, 2012 at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus. Participants will learn about the importance of developing an integrated approach for production processes and safety outcomes. When utilized together, companies can see increased benefits in productivity and costs.
“Implementing Lean principles and good safety practices together should be a gradual process for companies that have historically operated the two separately (if at all),” says Tim Israel, group manager for Lean Enterprise and Quality Services at the Georgia Institute of Technology Enterprise Innovation Institute. “Our new Georgia Tech Lean Safety course introduces the Safety Integrated Process Improvement Method, which allows safety professionals and Lean production managers to speak the same language, solve problems together, and begin merging their efforts to improve manufacturing processes.”
The course targets a broad range of occupations including: safety and health professionals, process improvement specialists, industrial engineers, and managers. Participants will learn to apply safety metrics to Value Stream Mapping (VSM) for process improvements, understand the ‘lean and safe’ toolkit, and identify waste in processes within a simulation-based learning experience.
Georgia Tech faculty Tom Sammon, Tara Barrett, and Damon Nix help participants form a ‘lean and safe’ organization. Sammon, a Lean Services project manager for the Georgia Institute of Technology, has previously worked with the Panasonic Robotics Group, Procter & Gamble, and Colgate-Palmolive. Barrett, a Lean Services project manager for Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, has worked as a project manager implementing Lean training for US firms located overseas near Shanghai and Beijing. Nix, a Safety Specialist with the Georgia Tech Safety and Health Consultation Program, provides safety and health consultation services to small businesses throughout Georgia.
For more information or to register for the course, visit: www.gtpe.gatech.edu/lean-safe.
For a list of all upcoming Georgia Tech Professional Education courses in Savannah, visit: http://www.gtpe.gatech.edu/gts-fall.
