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 | Watch this informative training session and explore methods to improve the output from your metal-cutting CNC machines. You'll begin with a brief introduction on reasons improvement may be necessary. Then, the program covers the two most obvious targets for improvement: setup and completing a production run. Finally, a few specific suggestions will be offered for eliminating, moving off line, and facilitating tasks that may be currently limiting a given machine's output.
This program includes an approximately 40-minute presentation and a few minutes of Q&A at the end. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 05, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session clarifies the proper use of "double-decker" position controls in GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing). There are two distinct types: composition position (one symbol), and two single-segment position controls (two symbols). These are commonly used to locate patterns of features, but they are rarely covered in a Fundamental GD&T training course. In this session, participants will learn the difference in showing one vs. two position symbols, and the importance of the datum references in understanding each meaning, per the ASME Y14.5-2009 standard. The target audience is design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and inspection personnel who are familiar with the basics of GD&T. Many samples will be shown of the proper design and inspection of patterns of holes and pins that use each method. Examples and exercises will be provided to allow participants to practice several calculations.
During this session, participants will learn how to: - Explain composite position tolerancing
- Explain two single-segment position tolerancing
- Describe gages for each and calculate gage sizes
- Brief review of position and bonus tolerance
- Explanation of composite tolerancing
- The need to control orientation vs. location
- Adding secondary and tertiary datums to the lower tolerance
- Two single-segment position tolerancing
- Functional gaging and CMM gaging perspectives
- Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Manufacturing personnel
- Quality/gaging inspectors
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 07, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| The purpose of this session is to take participants to the next level in using datums properly within GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing). Most people who use GD&T are familiar with traditional datums derived from flat surfaces, and have adequate knowledge of the principle of establishing 3-2-1 contact points. In this session, participants will learn to select, identify, simulate, and describe datums and datum features for special uses such as irregular shapes, flexible parts, and datum references that use the maximum material modifier. Also covered are several new modifiers and options given in the ASME Y14.5-2009 standard. The course is intended for designers, product engineers, manufacturing engineers, manufacturing personnel, and quality/gaging inspectors who have some experience with GD&T fundamentals.
During this session, participants will learn how to: Explain the difference between a datum and a datum feature Select appropriate datums for irregularly shaped parts Properly simulate given datums Explain effects of the datum on a geometric tolerance Interpret new datum tools such as translation and custom degrees of freedom
- Brief review of traditional datum usage
- Selecting datums: surface vs. feature of size
- Use of the MMB modifier (formerly MMC)
- Using a pattern as a single datum
- The new translation modifier
- Applying the "M" modifier to a surface
- Customized degrees of freedom
- Irregular feature of size datums
- Moveable datum targets
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Manufacturing personnel
- Quality/gaging inspectors
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 07, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| The purpose of this session is to clarify the proper use of the profile tolerances in GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing), and to show the full potential of these two symbols. A basic GD&T course covers the general meaning of profile, particularly with contoured surfaces, but many of the nuances are not covered. This session is intended for anyone who has basic knowledge of GD&T, whether involved in design, manufacturing, or quality. Since profile of a surface is arguably the most powerful GD&T symbol, its full potential will be explored: it can be used to control size, form, orientation, and location, and its relationship to datums can be varied. The many examples given in this session will also illustrate several of the new options for profile that were introduced in the ASME Y14.5-2009 standard.
During this session, participants will learn how to: - Explain when profile tolerances require a datum reference
- Determine which aspects of GD&T a given profile tolerance controls
- Interpret unilateral, bilateral, and nonuniform tolerances
- Describe how to properly measure profile tolerances
- Review of profile of a surface and profile of a line
- Using profile without datums
- All around and all over
- Locating a profile zone with toleranced dimensions
- Using the MMB modifier with profile
- Composite profile
- The "U" modifier
- Nonuniform tolerancing
- Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Manufacturing personnel
- Quality/gaging inspectors
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 09, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Part 2: Auxiliary Print Information - Brief review
- Section views
- Angled/auxiliary views
- Dimensioning practices
- Plus/minus vs. limit dimensions
- Special dimensions/tolerances
- Symbols: screw threads, machining, etc.
Who Should Attend: - Product and manufacturing engineers needing a review
- Manufacturing and inspection personnel
- Purchasing professionals
- Cost estimators
- Administrative personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: March 27, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Part 1: Introduction and Orthographic Projection
Importance of engineering drawings
Basic steps in reading a print
Line types: visible, hidden, center, extension, dimension, section, leader, phantom
The title block
Orthographic projection views
Visualizing in 3D
First vs. third angle projection
- Product and manufacturing engineers needing a review
- Manufacturing and inspection personnel
- Purchasing professionals
- Cost estimators
- Administrative personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: March 27, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Series Summary:
Many manufacturing organizations struggle with balancing performance, assembly, production, and cost, and the challenge and expense of balancing competing needs grows dramatically as the design matures. DFM analysis methods enable engineering decisions to balance among competing requirements for design performance, assembly complexity, production capability, and cost. This webinar series provides a detailed interactive experience implementing step-by-step Design for Manufacturing (DFM) methods for assembly and producibility analysis of complex components, using injection molded plastic components as examples. Injection molding processes can produce very complex geometries at relatively low cost, enabling significant cost reduction in engineered products through part consolidation and simplified assembly operations.
The analysis methods presented during this series enable effective consideration of production and assembly costs during early stages of product design, together with specific guidance for reducing costs while maintaining or improving product performance. The consideration of manufacturability issues in their work place will yield cost and quality benefits for themselves, their companies, and their customers.
Session Summary:
This session introduces a method to assess and reduce the difficulty of automatic product assembly. Through a step-by-step analysis of key product and component characteristics, seminar participants will assess the relative difficulty of various automatic assembly operations and consider design modifications to reduce assembly difficulty and cost. Assembly considerations include aspects of components prior to assembly, insertion of components into a fixture or partial assembly, and fastening components in place.
The session includes an interactive activity where participants carefully disassemble a retractable pen, track how the components fit together, practice assembling and disassembling the pen, and document (1) an automatic assembly procedure, (2) the components and their geometric features that affect automatic assembly, (3) an assessment of the components against the guidelines introduced in this session, (4) estimate average automatic assembly times per component and average total automatic assembly time, and (5) suggest design alternatives through elimination, combination, or modification of individual components and component features.
During this session, participants will learn how to:
- Assess relative difficulty of automatic assembly steps for each component
- Identify opportunities to reduce automatic assembly difficulty and cost
- Generate design alternatives that reduce cost while maintaining functio
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
- Integrated Product Team Members and Leaders
- Project Managers
- Production Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 22, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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Series Summary:
Many manufacturing organizations struggle with balancing performance,
assembly, production, and cost, and the challenge and expense of
balancing competing needs grows dramatically as the design matures. DFM
analysis methods enable engineering decisions to balance among competing
requirements for design performance, assembly complexity, production
capability, and cost. This webinar series provides a detailed
interactive experience implementing step-by-step Design for
Manufacturing (DFM) methods for assembly and producibility analysis of
complex components, using injection molded plastic components as
examples. Injection molding processes can produce very complex
geometries at relatively low cost, enabling significant cost reduction
in engineered products through part consolidation and simplified
assembly operations.
The analysis methods presented during
this series enable effective consideration of production and assembly
costs during early stages of product design, together with specific
guidance for reducing costs while maintaining or improving product
performance. The consideration of manufacturability issues in their work
place will yield cost and quality benefits for themselves, their
companies, and their customers.
Session Summary:
This session introduces a method to assess and reduce the difficulty of manual product assembly. Through a step-by-step analysis of key product and component characteristics, participants will assess the relative difficulty of various manual assembly operations and consider design modifications to reduce assembly difficulty and cost. Assembly considerations include aspects of handling of components prior to assembly, insertion of components into a fixture or partial assembly, and fastening components in place.
The session includes an interactive activity where participants carefully disassemble a retractable pen, track how the components fit together, practice assembling and disassembling the pen, and document (1) a manual assembly procedure, (2) the components and their geometric features that affect assembly, (3) an assessment of the assembly components against the guidelines introduced in this session, (4) average assembly times per component and average total assembly time, and (5) suggest design alternatives through elimination, combination, or modification of individual components and component features.
During this session, participants will learn how to:
- Assess relative difficulty of manual assembly steps for each component
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual assembly difficulty and cost
- Generate design alternatives that reduce cost while maintaining function
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
- Integrated Product Team Members and Leaders
- Project Managers
- Production Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 20, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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Series Summary:
Many
manufacturing organizations struggle with balancing performance,
assembly, production, and cost, and the challenge and expense of
balancing competing needs grows dramatically as the design matures. DFM
analysis methods enable engineering decisions to balance among competing
requirements for design performance, assembly complexity, production
capability, and cost. This webinar series provides a detailed
interactive experience implementing step-by-step Design for
Manufacturing (DFM) methods for assembly and producibility analysis of
complex components, using injection molded plastic components as
examples. Injection molding processes can produce very complex
geometries at relatively low cost, enabling significant cost reduction
in engineered products through part consolidation and simplified
assembly operations.
The analysis methods presented during
this series enable effective consideration of production and assembly
costs during early stages of product design, together with specific
guidance for reducing costs while maintaining or improving product
performance. The consideration of manufacturability issues in their work
place will yield cost and quality benefits for themselves, their
companies, and their customers.
Session Summary:
This session introduces a DFM method to assess and reduce the production costs for injection molded parts. Through a step-by-step analysis of key component characteristics and geometric features, seminar participants will assess the contribution of overall production costs of each injection molded component of a retractable pen. Significant cost contributing geometric features include geometric undercuts, cross-sectional thicknesses, level of detail/complexity, and threaded features.
The session includes an interactive activity where participants analyze the disassembled components of a retractable pen following the DFM analysis method. Participants will classify each component according to a series of rules and assign relative cost contributions according to these rules. Based on the classifications of the components, relative contributions to cost provide insight into the major cost contributions of the retractable pen. Combination of the relative production costs with the relative assembly costs and contributions to product function from the prior sessions provides a thorough basis for comparing the cost of each component to its contribution to product function. The detailed basis for estimating the production and assembly costs of each component provides a basis for suggesting and considering component or product design modifications that reduce costs while maintaining function and quality.
During this session, participants will learn how to:
- Assess relative cost of injection molding operation each component
- Identify opportunities to reduce injection molding production costs
- Combine production and assembly costs to estimate total component cost
- Compare cost of components to their contributions to product function
- Identify opportunities to reduce product cost while maintaining function and quality
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
- Integrated Product Team Members and Leaders
- Project Managers
- Production Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 22, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
| | MORE INFO |
| Series Summary:
Many manufacturing organizations struggle with balancing performance, assembly, production, and cost, and the challenge and expense of balancing competing needs grows dramatically as the design matures. DFM analysis methods enable engineering decisions to balance among competing requirements for design performance, assembly complexity, production capability, and cost. This webinar series provides a detailed interactive experience implementing step-by-step Design for Manufacturing (DFM) methods for assembly and producibility analysis of complex components, using injection molded plastic components as examples. Injection molding processes can produce very complex geometries at relatively low cost, enabling significant cost reduction in engineered products through part consolidation and simplified assembly operations.
The analysis methods presented during this series enable effective consideration of production and assembly costs during early stages of product design, together with specific guidance for reducing costs while maintaining or improving product performance. The consideration of manufacturability issues in their work place will yield cost and quality benefits for themselves, their companies, and their customers.
Session Summary:
This webinar session introduces a method to assess effects of process and material selection on cost and quality. This session covers benefits of simultaneous consideration of design, production, function, and maintenance of products and how the benefits of simultaneous consideration increase earlier in the design process. As a product design matures and more design decisions are made, fewer options remain for production engineers to suggest modifications or alternatives that satisfy design requirements while reducing production or maintenance costs.
Through a step-by-step analysis of key product and component functional requirements, seminar participants will assess the relative effect on cost and quality of material and process selections. The session includes an interactive activity using a retractable pen.
During this session, participants will learn how to:
- Define the functional and requirements of a product
- Map product functions to components and subassemblies
- Assign component functions to geometric features
- Prioritize component contributions to product function
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
- Integrated Product Team Members and Leaders
- Project Managers
- Production Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 20, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| The purpose of this session is to show participants the most significant changes that were implemented in the most recent standard for GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing). This standard, ASME Y14.5-2009, did not introduce any major characteristic symbols; however, there were numerous other additions that can significantly impact the interpretation of these tolerances. In effect, there are now more tools in the designer'S toolbox - this session will present these both in how they appear on a drawing, and what their proper interpretation and application should be. The session is intended for designers, product engineers, manufacturing engineers, manufacturing personnel, and quality/gaging inspectors, but participants should have a good general knowledge of GD&T as a prerequisite.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: Explain the recent history of the ASME standard Identify the name and meaning of each of the new modifiers Explain new terms such as irregular feature of size, related/unrelated AME Describe other new annotations for profile such as "all over" and "non-uniform" Identify MMB vs. MMC, and properly calculate shift tolerance
- Description of the ASME standard and a quick list of new items
- Review of older modifiers, with emphasis on MMB vs. MMC
- Features of size: now divided into "regular" and "irregular"
- Actual mating envelope: now divided into "related" and "unrelated'
- The impact on Rule #1: the modifiers "CF," "I," and ISO's "E"
- Applying flatness to a feature of size
- New tools for profile: "unequal," "non-uniform," and "all over"
- New tools for datums: the translation modifier, customized degrees of freedom, and "M" applied to a surface
- Summary and questions
Speaker:
 John-Paul Belanger is certified by the ASME as a Senior GD&T Professional. He has conducted numerous GD&T and Tolerance Stacks classes for a variety of manufacturing clients throughout North America and Europe. For four years Mr. Belanger was the primary GD&T instructor for a major automotive OEM. He has also done extensive consulting with clients in the proper application of geometric tolerancing. He holds a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan specializing in aircraft design and safety.
- Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Designers
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 08, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Correctly interpret a sample feature control frame
- Determine MMC and LMC for a given feature of size
- Calculate the bonus tolerance for a given GD&T callout
- Explain datums and their proper usage
- Reading the feature control frame
- Maximum and least material conditions
- Bonus tolerance
- Rule #2 - "Assume regardless of feature size"
- Datums - definition and symbology
- Example of a single datum reference
- The datum reference frame
- Using a feature-of-size datum
- Datum targets
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Design engineers
- Machinists
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 10, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Explain the benefits of GD&T
- Identify at least 6 fundamental dimensioning rules
- Interpret the difference between local size and envelope size
- Explain the measurement techniques for a size tolerance
Content: - Importance of engineering drawings
- Fundamental dimensioning rules
- The traditional coordinate tolerancing system
- Disadvantages of coordinate tolerances
- The benefits of GD&T
- History of GD&T and the standard
- Definitions - local size vs. envelope size
- Rule #1 - "Size also controls form"
- Simple examples
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Design engineers
- Machinists
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 10, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Identify each symbol applied to a feature of size
- Describe the tolerance zone when applied to a feature of size
- Interpret feature control frames using these symbols
- Determine if other GD&T symbols are overlapped with a given symbol
- Apply these symbols to a simple part based on design requirements
- Straightness
- Flatness
- Perpendicularity
- Parallelism
- Angularity
- Position
- Concentricity
- Symmetry
- Practice exercises
- Wrap-up
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Design engineers
- Machinists
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 12, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Identify each symbol within form, profile, orientation, and runout
- Interpret feature control frames using these symbols
- Determine if other GD&T symbols are overlapped with a given symbol
- Apply these symbols to a simple part based on design requirements
- Straightness
- Flatness
- Circularity
- Cylindricity
- Profile of a line
- Profile of a surface
- Perpendicularity
- Parallelism
- Angularity
- Circular runout
- Total runout
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Design engineers
- Machinists
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 12, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
| | MORE INFO |
| Series Summary:
In world-class automation, a machine is integrated with sensors, actuators, and computer control from the very beginning of the design process to create a mechatronic system. System dynamics and control structure must be part of the system design from the start. Performance, reliability, low cost, robustness, and sustainability are absolutely essential. During this webinar series, participants will study this integration in the context of the design and implementation of an actual mechatronic system, an H-BOT, shown here. Design engineers will experience how to design and implement a world-class mechatronic automation system through the H-BOT.
This webinar series will benefit every engineer involved in the creation or improvement of a machine for automation. Every machine now has integrated in it sensors, motors, and computer control. To bring this integrated system concept to reality, given that design is all about tradeoffs, requires, more than ever before, the understanding and application of precision machine design and power transmission fundamentals. The best path to good design is to become aware of these tradeoffs, assess the effects of these tradeoffs through modeling and analysis, and then make an intelligent choice based on what you need.
Learning Objectives:
- A review of how to design a machine for strength (static and fatigue), stiffness, and damping.
- Insight into the fundamental principles of machine design as practiced by industry experts, e.g., exact constraint design, functional independence.
- Understand the basics of accuracy, precision, and resolution.
- A review of the fundamentals of power transmission and its components, e.g., gears, bearings, shafts, coupling, and belts.
- Learn how to model, analyze, and predict behavior due to the common parasitic effects of compliance, backlash, and friction.
- Learn and apply the fundamentals of servo systems: trajectory planning, kinematic and kinetic modeling and analysis, sensor and motor selection, and feedback control design.
- Learn and apply system integration and system-level modeling and analysis to meet performance requirements.
- Understand the fundamental performance limitations in mechatronic system design and the tradeoffs that must be considered in the entire system.
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
Session Agenda:
- Basic Rules in Machine Design
- Accuracy, Precision, and Resolution
- Design for Stiffness and Damping
- Design for Strength (Static and Fatigue)
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 27, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
| | MORE INFO |
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Series Summary:
In world-class automation, a machine is integrated with sensors, actuators, and computer control from the very beginning of the design process to create a mechatronic system. System dynamics and control structure must be part of the system design from the start. Performance, reliability, low cost, robustness, and sustainability are absolutely essential. During this webinar series, participants will study this integration in the context of the design and implementation of an actual mechatronic system, an H-BOT, shown here. Design engineers will experience how to design and implement a world-class mechatronic automation system through the H-BOT.
This webinar series will benefit every engineer involved in the creation or improvement of a machine for automation. Every machine now has integrated in it sensors, motors, and computer control. To bring this integrated system concept to reality, given that design is all about tradeoffs, requires, more than ever before, the understanding and application of precision machine design and power transmission fundamentals. The best path to good design is to become aware of these tradeoffs, assess the effects of these tradeoffs through modeling and analysis, and then make an intelligent choice based on what you need.
Learning Objectives:
- A review of how to design a machine for strength (static and fatigue), stiffness, and damping.
- Insight into the fundamental principles of machine design as practiced by industry experts, e.g., exact constraint design, functional independence.
- Understand the basics of accuracy, precision, and resolution.
- A review of the fundamentals of power transmission and its components, e.g., gears, bearings, shafts, coupling, and belts.
- Learn how to model, analyze, and predict behavior due to the common parasitic effects of compliance, backlash, and friction.
- Learn and apply the fundamentals of servo systems: trajectory planning, kinematic and kinetic modeling and analysis, sensor and motor selection, and feedback control design.
- Learn and apply system integration and system-level modeling and analysis to meet performance requirements.
- Understand the fundamental performance limitations in mechatronic system design and the tradeoffs that must be considered in the entire system.
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
Session Agenda:
- Power Transmission System
- Components: Gears, Bearings, Shafts, Couplings, Belts
- Parasitic Effects: Compliance, Backlash, Friction
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 27, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
| | MORE INFO |
| Series Summary:
In world-class automation, a machine is integrated with sensors, actuators, and computer control from the very beginning of the design process to create a mechatronic system. System dynamics and control structure must be part of the system design from the start. Performance, reliability, low cost, robustness, and sustainability are absolutely essential. During this webinar series, participants will study this integration in the context of the design and implementation of an actual mechatronic system, an H-BOT, shown here. Design engineers will experience how to design and implement a world-class mechatronic automation system through the H-BOT.
This webinar series will benefit every engineer involved in the creation or improvement of a machine for automation. Every machine now has integrated in it sensors, motors, and computer control. To bring this integrated system concept to reality, given that design is all about tradeoffs, requires, more than ever before, the understanding and application of precision machine design and power transmission fundamentals. The best path to good design is to become aware of these tradeoffs, assess the effects of these tradeoffs through modeling and analysis, and then make an intelligent choice based on what you need.
Learning Objectives:
- A review of how to design a machine for strength (static and fatigue), stiffness, and damping.
- Insight into the fundamental principles of machine design as practiced by industry experts, e.g., exact constraint design, functional independence.
- Understand the basics of accuracy, precision, and resolution.
- A review of the fundamentals of power transmission and its components, e.g., gears, bearings, shafts, coupling, and belts.
- Learn how to model, analyze, and predict behavior due to the common parasitic effects of compliance, backlash, and friction.
- Learn and apply the fundamentals of servo systems: trajectory planning, kinematic and kinetic modeling and analysis, sensor and motor selection, and feedback control design.
- Learn and apply system integration and system-level modeling and analysis to meet performance requirements.
- Understand the fundamental performance limitations in mechatronic system design and the tradeoffs that must be considered in the entire system.
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
Session Agenda:
- Trajectory Planning
- Kinematic and Kinetic System Modeling
- Feedback Control System Design
- Sensor and Motor Selection
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 29, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
| | MORE INFO |
| Series Summary:
In world-class automation, a machine is integrated with sensors, actuators, and computer control from the very beginning of the design process to create a mechatronic system. System dynamics and control structure must be part of the system design from the start. Performance, reliability, low cost, robustness, and sustainability are absolutely essential. During this webinar series, participants will study this integration in the context of the design and implementation of an actual mechatronic system, an H-BOT, shown here. Design engineers will experience how to design and implement a world-class mechatronic automation system through the H-BOT.
This webinar series will benefit every engineer involved in the creation or improvement of a machine for automation. Every machine now has integrated in it sensors, motors, and computer control. To bring this integrated system concept to reality, given that design is all about tradeoffs, requires, more than ever before, the understanding and application of precision machine design and power transmission fundamentals. The best path to good design is to become aware of these tradeoffs, assess the effects of these tradeoffs through modeling and analysis, and then make an intelligent choice based on what you need.
Learning Objectives:
- A review of how to design a machine for strength (static and fatigue), stiffness, and damping.
- Insight into the fundamental principles of machine design as practiced by industry experts, e.g., exact constraint design, functional independence.
- Understand the basics of accuracy, precision, and resolution.
- A review of the fundamentals of power transmission and its components, e.g., gears, bearings, shafts, coupling, and belts.
- Learn how to model, analyze, and predict behavior due to the common parasitic effects of compliance, backlash, and friction.
- Learn and apply the fundamentals of servo systems: trajectory planning, kinematic and kinetic modeling and analysis, sensor and motor selection, and feedback control design.
- Learn and apply system integration and system-level modeling and analysis to meet performance requirements.
- Understand the fundamental performance limitations in mechatronic system design and the tradeoffs that must be considered in the entire system.
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
Who Should Attend:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Design Engineers
Session Agenda:
- Mechanical Assembly: Tolerances, Alignment, and Fits
- Electrical Assembly: Wiring and Noise
- System-Level Modeling including Loading Effects
- System-Level Performance Metrics and Trade-off
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 29, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| The purpose of this session is to give participants more practice in performing tolerance stacks that involve GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing), as well as an understanding of how statistical methods can impact a stack. A basic knowledge of geometric tolerancing is required, and familiarity with the basic stack spreadsheet method is recommended. The session begins by reviewing the unique factors known as "bonus tolerance" and "shift tolerance" (the "M" symbols), which are often erroneously ignored in tolerance stack-up analysis. Multiple examples will be provided to show specific applications, and practice exercises for the participants are included. Then the focus turns to the world of statistical stacks, which can often give more realistic results than a purely worst-case calculation. Participants will learn how to implement the root-sum-square (RSS) formula, as well as a modified RSS approach, along with a discussion of the caveats to consider when using these methods.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Calculate any "bonus" and "shift" tolerances
- Enter bonus/shift into the stack spreadsheet
- Explain when a statistical approach is appropriate
- Use the root-sum-square formula to calculate a stack
- Describe modified RSS methods and why they are sometimes used
- List the advantages of using a Monte Carlo simulation approach
- Brief review of MMC and LMC
- Determing the bonus and shift tolerances
- Entering bonus and shift into the spreadsheet
- Review of simple statistical concepts
- The root-sum-square (RSS) formula
- Modified RSS formulas (Bender and Gilson factors)
- Monte Carlo simulation method
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Designers
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 25, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session presents a methodical approach to tolerance stacks that involve geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T). Different GD&T symbols must be handled differently; some are bilateral, but some can be unilateral. Also discussed are virtual condition and resultant condition, two simple formulas to determine worst-case inner and outer locus when a position tolerance is invoked. A basic knowledge of geometric tolerancing is recommended, and also some familiarity with the basic two-column stack spreadsheet method. The target audience is design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and quality personnel who perform tolerance stacks. Many samples will be shown for the most common GD&T symbols.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Determine which GD&T symbols need to be accounted for in a stack
- Calculate virtual and resultant conditions
- Factor tolerances of form, orientation, location, runout, and profile into a stack
- Brief review of GD&T
- Virtual condition and resultant condition
- Stacks using location (RFS) and runout
- Stacks using profile tolerances
- Stacks using form and orientation
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Designers
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 23, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session is meant to walk participants through a simple spreadsheet method of creating and calculating tolerance stacks with traditional tolerances. Most companies lack a standardized approach to tolerance stacks, which leaves engineers and others to tackle these calculations in a haphazard manner. This session reviews the basics of building a tolerance stack in a methodical fashion, allowing a simple calculation of worst-case maximums and minimums. The course is intended for designers, product engineers, manufacturing engineers, and quality personnel who have a need to understand tolerance stack-up methods.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Explain the purpose and benefits of stacks
- Use the 4-step process to complete a stack
- Determine the "stack path" for one-dimensional stacks
- Complete the spreadsheet template for various stacks
- Perform worst-case max/min stacks using traditional tolerances
- Tolerancing review
- Tolerance strategies
- Stack definition, purpose, and assumed conditions
- The four steps in calculating a stack
- The two-column stack spreadsheet
- Sample part stacks with practice exercises
- Performing stacks on assemblies
- Examples and exercises with assemblies
Who Should Attend: - Manufacturing engineers
- Product engineers
- Designers
- Quality personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 23, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| 5S provides a framework for Lean thinking and employee engagement. Implementation of 5S as the foundation to Lean programs will provide a vehicle for workplace leadership and daily continuous improvement. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 19, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Many companies have started their Lean journey with 5S but have not realized the promised benefits. Why is this? Part of the reason lies with a fixation with housekeeping as the core of 5S thinking. If 5S truly is the foundation of lean, then we need to move beyond thinking of it as only housekeeping. During this session, attendees will learn how 5S is a vehicle for daily kaizen and employee involvement in your Lean programs.
This session will provide an overview of these topics: - An advanced set of 5S criteria that goes beyond housekeeping
- How to teach people how to identify waste in their work
- How to coach people in daily continuous improvement through 5S thinking
- How to revitalize your existing 5S program
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 27, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Session Summary: Learn proven tools and techniques for laying out effective manufacturing cells. This webinar will show you what information you need, how to apply it, and how to involve others in developing your layout plans. Classical types of cell layouts and flow patterns will be presented and their features discussed. The role of physical mock-ups and walk-throughs will be shown. Detailed checklists will help you avoid oversights and potentially costly adjustments during and after installation.
Prerequisites: Those attending will benefit from first-hand experience with layout planning. Ideally they should have been responsible for laying out and installing a cell of some kind. Participants should already understand the meaning of Takt time (allowable cycle time) and how to calculate the number of machines or operator stations required for a target production capacity and rate.
While not required, attendees will benefit from first attending the companion Webinar "Six Steps to Cell Plans." This companion session places cell layout in the larger context of comprehensive cell planning, including operating procedures and personnel management practices. Learning Objectives During this session, participants will learn how to:
- To learn what information is needed for sound cell layout plans.
- To learn proven tools and techniques for laying out manufacturing cells.
- To understand the pros and cons of different flow patterns and arrangements.
- To understand the value of alternative cell layouts and their formal evaluation.
- To learn how to evaluate a proposed layout for possible oversights.
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
Who Should Attend: - Plant layout planners; facilities planners; plant engineers.
- Manufacturing supervisors and team leaders.
- Manufacturing and industrial engineers responsible for cell planning.
- Six Sigma Black Belts, Brown Belts, Green Belts, Yellow Belts.
- Lean Facilitators
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 10, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Session Summary:
Learn a proven six-step procedure for planning all kinds of manufacturing cells – forming, fabricating, machining and assembly. This 6-step procedure addresses all three aspects of cell planning – physical, procedural, and personnel-related. Key documents, a comprehensive checklist, and pre-defined outputs for each step provide you with a visual, standardized planning procedure. The presenter will use a case example to illustrate the six steps. Each of the key documents will be made available as templates in Excel.
Prerequisites: Participants will benefit from first-hand experience with manufacturing cells and their planning. Ideally attendees should have planned at least one cell so that they may compare the procedure being presented to their own experience and approach.
Learning Objectives
During this session, participants will learn how to:- To learn a simple, standard procedure for planning any kind of cell.
- To learn proven documents and outputs for cell planning.
- To understand the three fundamentals of cell planning: parts, process and coupling.
- To see and understand the three aspects of cell planning: physical, procedural, and personnel-related.
- To understand the value of alternative cell plans and their formal evaluation.
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
Who Should Attend: - Plant layout planners; facilities planners; plant engineers.
- Manufacturing supervisors and team leaders.
- Manufacturing and industrial engineers responsible for cell planning.
- Six Sigma Black Belts, Brown Belts, Green Belts, Yellow Belts.
- Lean Facilitators
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 08, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | A3 has become a popular tool among lean practitioners, but isn't always leveraged to its full potential. A3 isn't just a template. It can also become a means to developing lean thinking in your organization at all levels. Learn how to use A3s effectively, what works and what doesn't, and how to use it as a coaching and learning tool. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: December 15, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| The demands of developing an agile workforce and training employees require standardized best practices. In this session, participants will learn what the definition of Standardized Work is and how to effectively use proven tools to consistently deliver quality results.
Upon completion this session, participants will be able to: - Describe the definition of Standardized Work
- Understand the effect of non-standard work on system planning and takt time.
- Know the steps required to ensure a successful outcome
- Know how to establish Standardized Work through the use of commonly applied forms, tools and techniques
- Know how to audit the Standard Work once it has been implemented
- Lean and Six Sigma practitioners
- Engineers
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone interested in continuous improvement
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: November 28, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | This session will explain the principles behind Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) and a Pull System (Kanban).
SMED Lean manufacturing considers most set-up time as waste and a non-value activity that must be reduced or eliminated to increase throughput velocity and responsiveness to the customer. The session will explain what set up reduction is and discuss the 5 'Stages' that need to be followed to ensure success.
Kanban In traditional manufacturing, 'Pull' is considered a counter intuitive. This session is designed for all employees and especially for employee teams looking to understand what pull systems are, and the simple principles behind their operation.
Upon completion this session, participants will be able to: - Know how long set-up times hurt competitiveness through their impact on inventory, customer service, lead times, and quality
- Understand how set-up times drive the decision making related to batch/lot sizes
- Understand the definition of Set Up
- Know the 5 Stages of Set Up Reduction
- Understand The difference between Internal and External activities
- Understand how to maintain the gains of your team
- Know what a Pull System is and is not
- Know the differences between a ‘Push’ and ‘Pull’ system and be able to describe them
- Know and describe the effect of a Pull System on inventory, customer service, lead times and quality
- How to approach the implementation of a Pull System and the typical steps to follow
- Describe how people are best involved to achieve a successful pull system implementation
- Recognize the different ways that a Kanban can be used
Who Should Attend: - Lean and Six Sigma practitioners
- Engineers
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone interested in continuous improvement
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: November 28, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | This introductory 5-S session provides participants with the understanding and the tools to begin systematically implementing a safe, visual, and orderly workplace. It focuses on the 5-S's which include Seiri (Tidy), Seiton (Orderly), Seiso (Clean), Seiketsu (Standardize), and Shitsuke (Self-Discipline) and explains in simple terms how these concepts contribute to a safe and effective company.
Coupled with the 5-S training are discussions on how to make workplaces 'visual' including the concept of a "visual dashboard" where key performance measures are displayed simply and effectively. All content will relate to how 5-S and Visual Factory Methodologies relate to flowing information and information through the organization.
Upon completion this session, participants will be able to: - Describe the 5 pillars of the Visual Workplace
- Know the positive effects of implementing the 5S philosophy
- Describe what benefits will be realized when a visual system is implemented
- Understand the value of having a Visual work area and the impact on customers
- Be able to work in a team environment to implement changes
- Understand how 5S compliments the flow of information and materials
Who Should Attend: - Lean and Six Sigma practitioners
- Engineers
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone interested in continuous improvement
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: November 27, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| For those seeking a clear foundation of the Lean principles, this interactive session makes Lean Thinking easy to understand by introducing the concept of looking at your business from a customer's perspective and identifying 'Customer Value'. The session will also introduce the 'Seven Deadly Wastes' and explain how to begin to see opportunities for improvement by identifying the Value Streams throughout your organization.
The instructor will lead participants through the necessary steps to complete a 'Current State' and 'Future State Map' for any process. There will also be 'discussions' on how to generate a plan that will take the process from the current state to the future state, understanding that it is people who make processes - and plants - successful.
Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: - List and explain each of the 5 steps to "Lean Thinking"
- Determine what is "Value Added" and "Non-Value Added" in a typical business environment
- List the 'Seven Deadly Wastes' and briefly describe each as it relates to his or her facility or environment
- Describe what is communicated in a Value Stream Map and how the map is derived
- Understand how a 'Current State Map' is constructed
- Be able to brainstorm opportunities for improvement
- Generate a "Future State Map" for any given product or process
- Understand how to develop an implementation plan.
Who Should Attend: - Lean and Six Sigma practitioners
- Engineers
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone interested in continuous improvement
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: November 27, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Summary
The basic image of a lean system is to provide a customer-focused environment that will ensure the highest quality service or production at the lowest cost, in the shortest time by continually eliminating muda (waste). Current operating environments today have shown that customers (both internal and external) have much broader expectations.
We need to deliver on the following:
Increased Productivity in a seamless/flawless manner
Excellent Quality in both perception and execution
Best Cost (not necessarily the lowest)
Improved Delivery time
Increased Safety (for all)
Enhanced Environmental awareness and ethical practices
Increased Morale for all involved in the process or service
Join us in this thought provoking webinar as we further explore the concepts and realities of muda, including motion, waiting, conveyance, correction, overprocessing, overproduction, inventory and knowledge disconnection, in a variety of operating environments. This thought process can run from a “state of the state” manufacturing facility, grocery store chain, engineering department, service call centers or consignment shops. The uses of Lean philosophy and methodology are endless as evidenced in retail and award winning educational building designs, lean and green communities.
The Toyota Production system has been challenged recently by supplier issues. The grace of the senseis and warrior way has been challenged to do and take the path of correctness. Join us as we look at Lean Systems in 2010 and beyond.
The session includes an approximately 45-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 60 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
Who Should Attend
Managers responsible for production, quality, cost or safety
Executive and managers with strategic interest in lean production
Quality maintenance and human resource professionals
Engineers and scientists
Safety and environmental professionals
Students engaged in management studies
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: March 25, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| While Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and TOC methodologies and tools are known in manufacturing operations, the application of Lean principles in other parts of the supply chain might not be that common. The Lean supply chain throughout the organization provides additional and significant improvement potential that needs to be addressed efficiently. This webinar series will show some of the most effective tools and methodologies to manage, improve and optimize your supply chain based on Lean principles.
Some of us might not associate the internal operations as part of the supply chain, but rather the inbound and outbound portion. However, the majority of all improvement and cost reduction potential are hiding behind interfaces between different sections within a supply chain and in the corresponding interactions between human beings.
This second session of the series will focus on the inbound supply chain side of the business, mainly on the link where all goods, supplies and services are arriving at your loading dock or front door. To be more precise, the presenter will discuss the interfaces between your business and your suppliers and the corresponding flow of material, information and especially money. The approach is based on the specially developed Supply Chain Innovation Program SCIP™, combining tangible tools and team collaboration for fast results.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: October 20, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Series Summary:
Has your organization struggled with any of the following?
- maintaining continuous improvement gains,
- adhering to new standard work,
- focusing on actionable "True North" performance metrics,
- engaging the workforce in daily kaizen,
- spending meaningful time at the gemba, and
- mentoring subordinates in lean thinking and behaviors
If so, please join us for this engaging and instructive 3-part webinar series. Participants will discover the underlying principles and deployment steps of a lean management system and its individual elements: 1) leader standard work, 2) visual controls, and 3) daily accountability process. They will learn basic implementation "how to's" around: tiered meeting processes and the selection and use of the critical few performance metrics, leader standard work development and its application, Gemba walks, suggestion systems, daily kaizen, and much more.
Session Summary:
During this session, participants will learn how to:
- Differentiate between traditional management, PDCA, and SDCA (standardize-do-check-adjust)
- Identify the target ("normal") conditions within the value stream
- Develop leader standard work in conjunction with visual controls to determine if conditions are normal or abnormal
- Apply leader standard work throughout the organization
Who Should Attend:
- Lean leaders - from the executive ranks all the way to the team leader level
- Kaizen technologists and facilitators in the kaizen promotion office (the "lean function")
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 07, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Series Summary:
Has your organization struggled with any of the following?
- maintaining continuous improvement gains,
- adhering to new standard work,
- focusing on actionable "True North" performance metrics,
- engaging the workforce in daily kaizen,
- spending meaningful time at the gemba, and
- mentoring subordinates in lean thinking and behaviors
If so, please join us for this engaging and instructive 3-part webinar series. Participants will discover the underlying principles and deployment steps of a lean management system and its individual elements: 1) leader standard work, 2) visual controls, and 3) daily accountability process. They will learn basic implementation "how to's" around: tiered meeting processes and the selection and use of the critical few performance metrics, leader standard work development and its application, Gemba walks, suggestion systems, daily kaizen, and much more.
Session Summary:
During this session, participants will learn how to:
- Integrate leader standard work with tiered performance metrics and the daily accountability process
- Develop tiered meeting standard work
- Engage stakeholders in the lean management system process and facilitate daily kaizen
- Ensure lean leaders "own" and maintain the lean management system
Who Should Attend:
- Lean leaders - from the executive ranks all the way to the team leader level
- Kaizen technologists and facilitators in the kaizen promotion office (the "lean function")
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 08, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Series Summary:
Has your organization struggled with any of the following?
- maintaining continuous improvement gains,
- adhering to new standard work,
- focusing on actionable "True North" performance metrics,
- engaging the workforce in daily kaizen,
- spending meaningful time at the gemba, and
- mentoring subordinates in lean thinking and behaviors
If so, please join us for this engaging and instructive 3-part webinar series. Participants will discover the underlying principles and deployment steps of a lean management system and its individual elements: 1) leader standard work, 2) visual controls, and 3) daily accountability process. They will learn basic implementation "how to's" around: tiered meeting processes and the selection and use of the critical few performance metrics, leader standard work development and its application, Gemba walks, suggestion systems, daily kaizen, and much more.
Session Summary:
During this session, participants will learn how to:
- Differentiate between traditional and lean performance metrics (purpose and characteristics)
- Align and cascade organizational breakthrough objectives and key performance indicators between the executive suite and the value stream (gemba)
- Create and maintain tiered performance metric boards that are appropriate for different levels within the organization
Who Should Attend:
- Lean leaders - from the executive ranks all the way to the team leader level
- Kaizen technologists and facilitators in the kaizen promotion office (the "lean function")
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 08, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session will show participants how to develop and evaluate two or more good layouts from a set of material flows and other closeness relationships. The presenter will explain several ways to size each activity-area in the layout. Participants will review the pros and cons of classical flow patterns: straight-through, U-shape, L-shape and comb or spine. Participants will receive a comprehensive list of evaluation factors and learn a simple method for scoring layout performance and reaching consensus on which plan is best.
Note: This session stands alone but also explains the space estimating, layout adjustment and evaluation steps in the full SLP method.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Identify how to determine the space required for individual areas in a plan.
- Understand the value of formally evaluating two significantly different alternatives.
- Identify a simple, proven method for getting consensus on which layout is best.
Prerequisites Ideally, attendees have experience in estimating floor space and agreeing on a layout plan in order to compare the techniques being presented to their own experience and approach.
Who Should Attend:- Plant and production managers
- Manufacturing, Industrial and Plant Engineers
- Lean and Continuous Improvement Project Leaders
- Six Sigma Black Belts, Brown Belts, Green Belts
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: December 06, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session will introduce you to Systematic Layout Planning (SLP), a universal, step-by-step method for planning any kind of layout. The SLP method is used throughout the world and is a popular, time-saving tool in Lean and Six Sigma programs. You will learn the phases and steps of the SLP procedure and see it demonstrated in a simple on-screen example. The presenter will also discuss classical types of layouts, ways to organize industrial space and when to use each. This presentation will include checklists for lean layouts and principles of lean layout planning.
Note: The remaining three sessions provide detailed instruction in flow analysis, relationship charting and diagramming, space estimating, and evaluation of alternative layout plans.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:- Provide a quick overview of Systematic Layout Planning (SLP).
- Identify a universal approach to planning layouts of any kind.
- Understand the classical ways to organize factories and industrial space.
- Identify the characteristics of lean layouts and how best to plan them.
Prerequisites Ideally, attendees have been involved with at least one layout plan so that they may compare the procedure being presented to their own experience and approach. - Plant and production managers
- Manufacturing, Industrial and Plant Engineers
- Lean and Continuous Improvement Project Leaders
- Six Sigma Black Belts, Brown Belts, Green Belts
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: December 04, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session will show participants how to calculate the transport work associated with any plant layout. The presenter will show participants how to quickly calculate a flow index for comparing alternative plans. Case examples will range from high volume movement of uniform materials to low-volume, job-shop movement of diverse materials and assemblies. Using simple working forms and spreadsheets, the presenter will show how to collect, organize, interpret and present your flow data and estimates.
Note: This session stands alone but also explains the flow analysis steps in the full SLP method.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Identify simple, easily-applied methods of measuring and comparing material flows.
- Understand the metric of transport work and what it can tell you.
- Identify the flow index as a quick method of comparing several layouts of the basis of their relative material flows.
Prerequisites Ideally, attendees have experience in measurement and quantification of material flow so that they may compare the techniques being presented to their own experience and approach.
Who Should Attend:- Plant and production managers
- Manufacturing, Industrial and Plant Engineers
- Lean and Continuous Improvement Project Leaders
- Six Sigma Black Belts, Brown Belts, Green Belts
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: December 04, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session will show participants how to chart and visualize the relationships in any layout planning project. The presenter will show participants how to combine measured material flow with subjective reasons for closeness or separation such as visual management, shared personnel, shared equipment, safety, contamination, and the like. Using the rated-and-reason-supported relationship chart, you will learn how to record, interpret, and present hundreds of relationships and their reasons in a single, compact spreadsheet. An electronic copy will be made available in Excel. Participants will also learn a simple graphical technique for visualizing the ideal arrangement of activity areas or machines.
Note: This session stands alone but also explains the relationship charting and diagramming steps in the full SLP method.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Identify a method for capturing and recording all the relationships present in a layout or facility.
- Identify a method of diagramming relationships and visualizing the ideal arrangement of activity-areas or machines.
- Identify a visual method of auditing current or proposed layouts and the degree to which they satisfy the most important relationships.
Prerequisites Ideally, attendees have experience in recording factory floor relationships so that they may compare the techniques being presented to their own experience and approach.
Who Should Attend:- Plant and production managers
- Manufacturing, Industrial and Plant Engineers
- Lean and Continuous Improvement Project Leaders
- Six Sigma Black Belts, Brown Belts, Green Belts
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: December 06, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session, which is part of a unique, multiple-part webinar series, will allow participants to learn the A3 process, apply it their own work setting and receive coaching and feedback on their efforts. This training opportunity is perfect for small teams from the same company to work together to solve a real-world challenge. Participants will follow the A3 thinking process and work through a real world application. By following the P-D-C-A cycle, the participants will be able to apply their learning and refine their skills.
Learning objectives
After this series, participants will be able to:
- Use a standardized approach
- Understand the current state better to perform effective root cause analysis
- Foster a team approach to creating an improved target condition
- Design a fully realized implementation plan
- Craft measures & metrics to determine success and opportunities for improvement
- Create buy-in, ownership, responsibility and authority
Session Summary
This session is an overview of A3 Problem Solving methodology including:
- Introduction to A3
- The Plan-Do-Check-Act (P-D-C-A) Cycle
- Team Based Problem Solving
- Problem Solving Tools
- The A3 Report
- Real World Applications
After the completion of Part 1, participants will pick a problem at their organization and start applying the A3 methodology.
Who Should Watch:
- Lean and Six Sigma practitioners
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone interested in continuous improvement
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 16, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session, which is part of a unique, multiple-part webinar series,
will allow participants to learn the A3 process, apply it their own
work setting and receive coaching and feedback on their efforts. This
training opportunity is perfect for small teams from the same company
to work together to solve a real-world challenge. Participants will
follow the A3 thinking process and work through a real world
application. By following the P-D-C-A cycle, the participants will be
able to apply their learning and refine their skills.
Learning objectives
After this series, participants will be able to:
- Use a standardized approach
- Understand the current state better to perform effective root cause analysis
- Foster a team approach to creating an improved target condition
- Design a fully realized implementation plan
- Craft measures & metrics to determine success and opportunities for improvement
- Create buy-in, ownership, responsibility and authority
Session SummaryDuring this follow-up session, participants and teams can receive coaching on the A3 they developed after the first session. Due to the time available during this session, a maximum of six A3s will be selected for review during the live session.
Who Should Watch:
- Lean and Six Sigma practitioners
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone interested in continuous improvement
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 07, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Value Stream Mapping is a valuable tool that allows you to create a visual representation of a process. This tool can be used in an office environment or on the shop floor. Creating the map helps you to understand overall lead-time, cycle time, down-time, and quality issues. During this session, viewers will become familiar with how value stream mapping can be used to measure and define process improvement opportunities.
The program includes an approximately 25-minute presentation and a thorough 25-minute Q&A session. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. Each recording purchase allows unlimited viewing for 90 days.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: March 19, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| While Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and TOC methodologies and tools are known in manufacturing operations, the application of Lean principles in other parts of the supply chain might not be that common. The Lean supply chain throughout the organization provides additional and significant improvement potential that needs to be addressed efficiently. This webinar series will show some of the most effective tools and methodologies to manage, improve and optimize your supply chain based on Lean principles.
Some of us might not associate the internal operations as part of the supply chain, but rather the inbound and outbound portion. However, the majority of all improvement and cost reduction potential are hiding behind interfaces between different sections within a supply chain and in the corresponding interactions between human beings.
In this first session, Juergen will show what is happening in front of our doorsteps before moving into the important aspects of a Lean supply chain and its human side. He will raise and answer the question: Why are some companies – such as Toyota – outperforming others throughout their supply chain?
You will learn about the House of Business Excellence™, which visualizes the precondition for sustainable improvement and documents the two supportive pillars—process leadership and people engagement—and how they are linked into the human side of lean as a catalyst for culture change.
Juergen will highlight why it is crucial to address both of these pillar aspects simultaneously and effectively. This will lead to the core of a lean supply chain: lean leadership! You will learn about your role as leader within a lean supply chain and about the two fundamental ingredients to continuously create sustainable improvements through your people.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 29, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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Session Summary:
Learn the fundamentals of Value Stream Mapping through instruction, participation and a case study. This session will give you the information on how to prepare for a VSM event. It will walk you through the steps of creating the process family, drawing a current state map, developing a future state map and writing a plan to get there. Follow our case study through the steps. You will learn tips and tricks that will make your value stream maps better and drive results that reduce waste. This session will also cover different types of value stream maps including real examples for: office and support functions, manufacturing, and service.
Learning Objectives:
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to:
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Learn the history of VSM
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Identify the levels or scopes of VSM and types of VSMs
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Understand the Four-Step VSM Process – Process Families, Current State, Future State and Plan
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Recognize common errors or mistakes when developing Value Stream Maps
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Comprehend how to perform a VSM kaizen training event
Who Should Attend:
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Lean Practitioner
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Lean Champion
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Value Stream Managers
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Team Leads, Supervisors and Managers
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 28, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. In this session, you will learn how to create an implementation plan that makes sense and will be actually followed. We will also cover what happens after the first Future State is achieved and how VSM fits in with your overall business planning.
Learning Objectives:
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Envision the Future State
- See real-world examples from manufacturing, office, service and support functions
- Create the Draft Implementation Plan including prioritizing kaizen events and projects
- Distinguish between a Future State vs. Ideal State
- Determine the next steps for Future State 2
- Compare VSM and Business Planning
- Understand the Role of the Value Stream Manager
Who Should Attend:
- Lean Practitioner
- Lean Champion
- Value Stream Managers
- Team Leads, Supervisors and Managers
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 30, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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Session Summary:
Take a deeper look into how to create better Value Stream Maps that are actually helpful for improvement. This session is geared towards giving you practical information regarding setting yourself up for success in creating a solid Current State Map.
Learning Objectives
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to:
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Determine the Scopes of Value Streams
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Be able to group and identify Process Families
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Differentiate Data Collection between manufacturing vs. office, service or support functions
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Understand how to create the Current State Map
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See real-world examples from manufacturing, office, service and support functions
Who Should Attend:
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Lean Practitioner
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Lean Champion
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Value Stream Managers
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Team Leads, Supervisors and Managers
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 28, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | Learn about the basics of data collection--how to go about providing it and the benefits derived from implementing a system. Discussion on how it may ease manual data collection for regulated industries. Comparison of usefulness for trend data versus event driven data. The seminar approach is hands-on and exposes the architecture employed within most packages and introduces the possibility of developing your own system. A wide variety of industries will be discussed, including pharmaceutical, semiconductor fabrication, food packaging, nuclear, basic research, wire and cable and automotive. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: October 29, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Lean Tooling training provides the Lean practitioner with an overview of how to document and improve perishable tool management through the use of kanban or pull signaling techniques. Kanban or pull signaling techniques help to illuminate wasteful practices and to establish optimum flow, storage, maintenance, and availability of perishable tools. The overall goal of a Lean Tooling initiative is to reduce the costs of perishable tooling, and improve the availability and speed of perishable tool management.
Who Should Attend:
Plant Manager, Operations Manager, Tool Room/Crib Managers and Leaders, Production Team Leaders and Supervisors, Perishable Tool Buyers, and anyone responsible for perishable tooling supply and maintenance
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: September 22, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Viewers of this session receive a refresher on basic material properties and an overview of common types of metals, plastics, composites, and ceramics. A discussion of selecting appropriate materials for given product and performance criteria is also included.
Topics include: - Basic mechanical properties
- Steel, cast iron, stainless steel
- Aluminum
- Thermoplastic and thermoset plastics
- Composites
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 06, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Viewers of this session will receive a refresher on manufacturing processes and an introduction to newer technologies. The integration and simultaneous consideration of material, design, and manufacturing process to produce a competitive product will be discussed.
Topics include: - machining
- sand casting
- die casting
- metal forming
- hydroforming
- powdered metals
- joining
- friction stir welding
- injection molding
- thermoforming
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 18, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Viewers will receive a refresher on basic lean principles, quality concepts, and manufacturing management topics. Manufacturing professionals and those just entering the field will find a discussion of these topics and their importance in global competitiveness highly beneficial. Emphasis will be given toward applications and integration.
Topics include: - Kanban, Value Stream Analysis, One-piece flow, 5S
- Reliabilty, Taguchi, Six Sigma
- Leadership, motivation, intellectual property
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 25, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Viewers of this session will receive a refresher on basic product design tools. Emphasis will be given to how product design tools can be used to design competitive products for a highly competitive marketplace.
Topics Include: - TRIZ
- design for manufacture and assembly
- Quality Function Deployment
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Rapid prototyping.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 13, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| People involved in quoting often believe the cost information their accountants provide is accurate and competently compiled. Is it true, or do they really have you fooled? Manufacturing companies often focus their cost analysis on direct labor and direct materials, ignoring the potential vast differences existing between products for other costs types. During this session, you will learn how to ask the tough questions about how your company considers twelve cost categories in your quoting model.
Objectives During this session, participants will learn how to ask tough questions about how their company accounts for the following twelve cost categories in their quoting model: - Product development and launch
- Occupancy
- Depreciation
- Maintenance
- Set-up
- Supervision
- Inspection and quality control
- Material handling
- Excess capacity
- Selling costs
- Administrative
- Interest and financing
Who Should Attend: - Engineers
- Estimators
- Accountants
- Buyers
- Operations management and sales personnel involved with the quoting process
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: February 27, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | Three things can happen in pricing - and two of them are bad. An overpriced product is a lost sale while under-priced products drag down the company's profit. Only when a company prices products intelligently does it have a change to make both a sale and a profit. Companies typically make pricing mistakes on four types of products. During this session, you will see how having superior cost information will allow you to give the "dogs" to your competitors and keep the "gravy" for yourself.
Note: participants should bring a calculator to this session.
Learning Objectives After participating in this webinar, participants will: - Understand the roles of value and cost in pricing
- Learn about real-life companies that doubled their profit
- Know where pricing mistakes occur and why
- Learn how to avoid being the "dumb" competitor
- Know why the company with the best cost information wins
- Understand why having high quality cost information can double your profit
Who Should Attend: - Engineers
- Estimators
- Accountants
- Buyers
- Operations management and sales personnel involved with the quoting process
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: February 27, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Providing a customer quote can be a simple or laborious process. A high-quality model can streamline quoting, saving significant time and money. During this session, participants will look at real-world quoting models to provoke ideas that will improve your quoting process.
This session will include review of three real-world quoting models from the metal stamping, metal fabricating and plastic injection molding industries.
Learning Objectives During this session, participants will: - Learn why their rate table should include much more than labor rates
- Understand why estimating production volumes is vital
- Know how to handle give-backs under a long-term contract
- See how to use decision switches to streamline quoting
- Learn how some companies seek a return on assets instead of a return on sales
- See how to build a customer form translator
- Know how to test their quote model’s quality
- Be exposed to real-world quoting models ideas that can make quoting models more accurate and easier to use.
Who Should Attend: - Engineers
- Estimators
- Accountants
- Buyers
- Operations management and sales personnel involved with the quoting process
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: March 01, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | "It takes five mechanics to stay ahead of the problems caused by one sorry oiler." Reliability Manager for Temple-Inland Paper Products.
This is a common sentiment for managers in the business of maintaining machines. Unfortunately, in the current manufacturing climate the harsh impact of any lost production time, whether scheduled or not, can drive a company right out of business. On the flip side, world-class manufacturers have adopted a few machine-care strategies that enable them to meet customer needs: dependable quality, on-time shipments, competitive pricing. This 1-hour session shines a light on a critical cornerstone of dependable plant capacity, reveals why plants cannot ignore the effect of even one “sorry” oiler. It's called reliability centered lubrication. Join us for an engaging look at reliability centered lubrication, and consider how this concept can help you save your machines from failure and save your plant from closure.
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: February 25, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | The basic goal of a Hazard Communication Program is to ensure employers and employees know about work hazards and how to protect themselves. This standard is designed to ensure that information about these hazards and associated protective measures is disseminated to workers and employers. The Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) is now in the process of becoming aligned with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). This update to the HCS will provide a common and consistent approach to classifying chemicals and communicating hazard information on labels and safety data sheets. This program, once implemented, will improve the quality and consistency of chemical hazard information in the workplace, making it safer for employers and employees by providing more easily understandable information on the safe use and handling of hazardous chemicals. During this session, participants will review the history of HCS and GHS as well as the key changes and implementation schedule for American workplaces.
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to: - Describe the four main employer responsibilities under the HazCom standard.
- Describe the main purpose for the GHS integration program and process.
- Describe the components of an appropriate HazCom program, including requirements to provide specific information.
- Describe the differences between the former HazCom labeling requirements for a chemical, and the new format for the GHS.
- Identify the effective dates of the GHS program, how this affects you, and what you need to do.
Who Should Attend: - Safety specialist/manager
- Mechanical/industrial engineer
- Continuous improvement specialist
- Human resources manager
- Safety committee member
- Plant supervisor
- Operations manager
- Manufacturing engineers
- Manufacturing personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 21, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace, free from recognized hazards. Employers must comply with all applicable OSHA standards. Effective management of worker safety and health protection is a decisive factor in reducing the frequency as well as the severity of work-related injuries and illnesses. Effective safety management addresses all work-related hazards, including those potential hazards that could result from a change in worksite conditions or practices. The best Safety and Health Programs involve every level of the organization, instilling a safety culture that reduces accidents for workers and improves the bottom line for managers. When safety and health are part of the organization and a way of life, everyone wins. During this session, we will discuss different elements of a safety and health program that will satisfy the requirements under the standard, as well as what additional policies and training should be implemented to improve your current safety and health programs.
The topics in this session that will be discussed are: Introduction to OSHA, Accident Investigation, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Emergency Action Plan (EAP), and Bloodborne Pathogens.
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to: - After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify Worker’s Rights under the standard, what an OSHA Recordable injury is, and the required forms for documenting injuries and counting lost, restricted or transferred days.
- Identify the elements and benefits of an effective safety and health program.
- Name the methods to identify, prevent and control workplace hazards.
- Describe accident investigation techniques to determine the root causes of an incident or injury and implement permanent corrective actions.
- Describe the primary means of protecting employees from workplace hazards prior to considering personal protective equipment (PPE).
- List PPE that may be used to protect the eye, face, head, feet, hands/arms, bodies and hearing. As well as identify hazards that are lessened or eliminated by using the appropriate PPE and the required training.
- Explain what should be included in and Emergency Action Plan, and what drills are necessary.
- List the different classes of fire extinguishers and the types of fires they can properly extinguish.
- Describe the requirements for proper maintenance of portable fire extinguishers.
- Identify what a Bloodborne pathogen is, what is necessary for a basic program including blood cleanup and exposure control.
Who Should Attend: - Safety specialist/manager
- Mechanical/industrial engineer
- Continuous improvement specialist
- Human resources manager
- Safety committee member
- Plant supervisor
- Operations manager
- Manufacturing engineers
- Manufacturing personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 23, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This is a continuation of the prior educational session where we will cover topics such as: Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout), Machine Guarding, Flammable and Combustible liquids, Basic Electrical Safety Requirements, and Walking and Working Surfaces.
Machine safeguards and proper application of the Lockout/Tagout standard are essential for protecting workers from needless and preventable injuries. Machine guarding and Lockout/Tagout violations continuously rank among the top 10 of OSHA citations issued. OSHA's electrical standards address this serious workplace hazard which exposes employees to such dangers as electric shock, electrocution, fires and explosions. The flammable and combustible liquid standard applies to the handling, storage and use of liquids with a flash point below 200 degrees F. To prevent explosion and fire hazards, this standard addresses the primary concern of design and construction, ventilation, ignition sources and storage. Slips, trips, and falls constitute the majority of general industry accidents. They cause 15% of all accidental deaths, and are second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities. The OSHA standards for walking and working surfaces apply to essentially all permanent places of employment.
During this session, participants will be able to: - Define the Lockout/Tagout standard, program requirements, training requirements, and annual upkeep of the program.
- Identify typical hazards when working around machines, including those types that could pose a major hazard if not properly guarded, discuss several types of machine safeguards and the requirements of each.
- Identify exceptions to the Lockout/Tagout standard and what are not.
- Describe the main electrical hazards that may be encountered at a worksite, and the types of injuries that can occur from contact with electricity.
- Recognize and apply means of protection from electrical injury, as well as the function of a ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI).
- Define flash point, flammable liquid, and combustible liquid.
- Identify ways to avoid explosion or fire, and identify/recognize potential sources of ignition for flammable and combustible liquids.
- Define these terms: floor hole, floor opening, wall opening, standard railing and standard toeboard.
- Identify the requirements to consider to avoid walking/working surface hazards related to floors, walls, holes, stairways, platforms and ladders or scaffolding.
Who Should Attend: - Safety specialist/manager
- Mechanical/industrial engineer
- Continuous improvement specialist
- Human resources manager
- Safety committee member
- Plant supervisor
- Operations manager
- Manufacturing engineers
- Manufacturing personnel
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: May 23, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Maximizing Project Team Performance and Results: - Selection, direction, motivation, and discipline
- Identification of required skill sets for your project
- The negotiation process
- Building an external support network for your project
- Establishing clear and comprehensive roles, responsibilities, and assignment objectives
- Managing virtual project teams
Who Should Attend:- Manufacturing Engineers
- Industrial Engineers
- Project Managers
- Operations Professionals
- Purchasing Professionals
- IT Professionals
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: February 21, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Fiscal Responsibilities in Project Management: - Activity Identification
- Cost Estimating
- Variance Planning
- Project Budgeting
- Cost controls and budget forecasting
- The importance of building cash flow baselines
Who Should Attend:- Manufacturing Engineers
- Industrial Engineers
- Project Managers
- Operations Professionals
- Purchasing Professionals
- IT Professionals
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: February 19, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Managing the Downside Effectively: - Risk management planning fundamentals
- Risk priority number vs. risk criticality index approaches
- Quantitative vs. qualitative risk management tools
- Preliminary failure analysis model and examples
- Fault tree analysis model and examples
Who Should Attend:- Manufacturing Engineers
- Industrial Engineers
- Project Managers
- Operations Professionals
- Purchasing Professionals
- IT Professionals
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: February 21, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Fundamentals of Project Planning: - The PMBOK Model of project planning
- The Strategic Project Management Model of project planning
- The criticality of scope planning and alignment
- Situational assessments
- Network diagramming, dependencies, and GANTT
- Monitoring and control essentials
- Typical planning phase mistakes
Who Should Attend:- Manufacturing Engineers
- Industrial Engineers
- Project Managers
- Operations Professionals
- Purchasing Professionals
- IT Professionals
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: February 19, 2013
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session, which is part of a 4-part webinar series, provides details for attacking and reducing the costs associated with edge finishing. After learning initial concepts, participants will calculate their own cost per part for deburring, calculate the yearly shop costs for deburring, as well as determine how their sales and costs fit within the national and international costs of deburring. More importantly, this series will help participants effectively position deburring and edge finishing as an income source or value-added element of their sales.
Learning Objectives
As a participant in this series, you will learn how to:
- Apply the fundamentals of reducing costs
- Explicitly define what your company wants/needs/expects
- Approximately determine whether you are spending more than your competition for deburring
- Identify the basic elements of burr costs
- Use a simple spreadsheet approach that reveals cost per year, cost per hour, cost per load, cost per part (attendees can download the spreadsheets for their immediate use)
- Use equations for specific deburring processes, if you like that approach rather than spreadsheets.
- Determine your shop’s actual total cost of deburring per year
- Attack reducing deburring costs
You’ll also learn how the basics of burr properties and formation influence cost; how simple tips when buying new deburring equipment can reduce final equipment costs and problems; and some other simple ideas for reducing your costs.
Concepts and Data
- Some basics about burrs
- What is the real goal in your plant?
- What others say it costs their company
- The basics of burr costs
- What should you be paying?
- What could you be paying?
Who Should Watch:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Presidents
- Shop foremen
- Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 09, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| This session, which is part of a 4-part
webinar series, provides details for attacking and reducing the costs
associated with edge finishing. After learning initial concepts,
participants will calculate their own cost per part for deburring,
calculate the yearly shop costs for deburring, as well as determine how
their sales and costs fit within the national and international costs
of deburring. More importantly, this series will help participants
effectively position deburring and edge finishing as an income source
or value-added element of their sales.
Learning Objectives
As a participant in this series, you will learn how to:
- Apply the fundamentals of reducing costs
- Explicitly define what your company wants/needs/expects
- Approximately determine whether you are spending more than your competition for deburring
- Identify the basic elements of burr costs
- Use a simple spreadsheet approach that reveals cost per year,
cost per hour, cost per load, cost per part (attendees can download the
spreadsheets for their immediate use)
- Use equations for specific deburring processes, if you like that approach rather than spreadsheets.
- Determine your shop’s actual total cost of deburring per year
- Attack reducing deburring costs
You’ll also learn how the basics of burr properties and formation
influence cost; how simple tips when buying new deburring equipment can
reduce final equipment costs and problems; and some other simple ideas
for reducing your costs.
Deburring Department Costs
- Rule of thumb approach
- Elements of deburring cost table
- Allocating costs – what the shop often overlooks
Who Should Watch: - Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Presidents
- Shop foremen
- Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 11, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
| | MORE INFO |
| This session, which is part of a 4-part
webinar series, provides details for attacking and reducing the costs
associated with edge finishing. After learning initial concepts,
participants will calculate their own cost per part for deburring,
calculate the yearly shop costs for deburring, as well as determine how
their sales and costs fit within the national and international costs
of deburring. More importantly, this series will help participants
effectively position deburring and edge finishing as an income source
or value-added element of their sales.
Learning Objectives
As a participant in this series, you will learn how to:
- Apply the fundamentals of reducing costs
- Explicitly define what your company wants/needs/expects
- Approximately determine whether you are spending more than your competition for deburring
- Identify the basic elements of burr costs
- Use a simple spreadsheet approach that reveals cost per year,
cost per hour, cost per load, cost per part (attendees can download the
spreadsheets for their immediate use)
- Use equations for specific deburring processes, if you like that approach rather than spreadsheets.
- Determine your shop’s actual total cost of deburring per year
- Attack reducing deburring costs
You’ll also learn how the basics of burr properties and formation
influence cost; how simple tips when buying new deburring equipment can
reduce final equipment costs and problems; and some other simple ideas
for reducing your costs.
Plantwide Costs – More than the Deburring Department Costs
- Plant wide cost considerations
- Specifying what you really want/expect
- Evaluating costs with new deburring processes/new equipment
- Reducing costs
- Summary
Who Should Watch:- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Presidents
- Shop foremen
- Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 11, 2011
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
| | MORE INFO |
| This session, which is part of a 4-part
webinar series, provides details for attacking and reducing the costs
associated with edge finishing. After learning initial concepts,
participants will calculate their own cost per part for deburring,
calculate the yearly shop costs for deburring, as well as determine how
their sales and costs fit within the national and international costs
of deburring. More importantly, this series will help participants
effectively position deburring and edge finishing as an income source
or value-added element of their sales.
Learning Objectives
As a participant in this series, you will learn how to:
- Apply the fundamentals of reducing costs
- Explicitly define what your company wants/needs/expects
- Approximately determine whether you are spending more than your competition for deburring
- Identify the basic elements of burr costs
- Use a simple spreadsheet approach that reveals cost per year,
cost per hour, cost per load, cost per part (attendees can download the
spreadsheets for their immediate use)
- Use equations for specific deburring processes, if you like that approach rather than spreadsheets.
- Determine your shop’s actual total cost of deburring per year
- Attack reducing deburring costs
You’ll also learn how the basics of burr properties and formation
influence cost; how simple tips when buying new deburring equipment can
reduce final equipment costs and problems; and some other simple ideas
for reducing your costs.
Simple Cost Calculations Per Part- Excel spreadsheet approach
- Process equations for cost
Who Should Watch:
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Presidents
- Shop foremen
- Managers
| Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: August 09, 2011
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | So you're collecting data now. What can be done with it? How can you retain archive detail and still have it useful to plant personnel? Understand why many systems fall into disuse after the initial enthusiasm wears off. What is SPC and how to use it. A wide variety of industries will be discussed, including pharmaceutical, semiconductor fabrication, food packaging, nuclear, basic research, wire and cable and automotive. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: November 17, 2009
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Session Summary:
During this session, participants will gain a fundamental understanding of why certain materials/combinations of materials are used in different applications. Participants will learn about specific resin and fiber properties, service temperatures, material limitations, environmental considerations, fiber forms, prepreg vs. dry/wet materials, core materials, the pros and cons of sandwich construction, and quasi-isotropic, balanced, symmetric laminate properties.
Learning Objectives
During this session, participants will learn about:
- Resins and properties; process and service temperatures.
- Fibers and properties; tensile strength and modulus values.
- Fiber forms; unidirectional, bidirectional, multi-axial, etc.
- Typical laminate construction methods and techniques.
- Core materials and sandwich panel construction.
Who Should Attend:
- Tool designers/engineers
- Manufacturing engineers
- Tool fabricators/technicians
- Quality assurance engineers/technicians
Each session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the recording of the live session. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: June 26, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Session Summary:
During this session, we will explore different methods of manufacturing including an overview of automated layup vacuum bagging; bagging materials, techniques, and methodologies; autoclave and out of autoclave (OoA) processes such as oven, press, resin infusion/transfer molding, and other self-contained process methods. In addition there will be a discussion on bringing visibility to the viscoelastic properties of the matrix resin, in real time during processing, via parallel rheometry and other thermal analysis techniques, an emerging technology used to optimize cycle time and provide for exceptional quality assurance.
Learning Objectives
During this session, participants will learn about:
- Automated fiber placement and tape layup (AFP/ATL).
- Vacuum bagging; purpose, materials, and techniques.
- Autoclave and out-of-autoclave (OoA) processing.
- Resin transfer/infusion technologies.
- Visibility of viscoelastic properties.
Who Should Attend:
- Tool designers/engineers
- Manufacturing engineers
- Tool fabricators/technicians
- Quality assurance engineers/technicians
Each
session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief
Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each
login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the
recording of the live session. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: June 28, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Session Summary:
During this session, we will examine the latest trends in tooling for advanced composites, discuss part manufacturability and the inherent issues specific to molding fiber reinforced polymers. Emphasis will be placed on tooling material properties, tool material selection, and tool design standards for composite and metallic tools, and tooling used for tool fabrication. This session includes an overview of common molds, fixtures, and other tools and equipment used in manufacturing composite components and assemblies.
Learning Objectives
During this session, participants will learn about:
- Various layup molds and mandrels.
- Trim, drill, and assembly tooling.
- Fundamentals of tool design/standards.
- Tooling materials; metals Vs composites.
- Tools for tool fabrication; virtual and physical models.
Who Should Attend:
- Tool designers/engineers
- Manufacturing engineers
- Tool fabricators/technicians
- Quality assurance engineers/technicians
Each
session includes an approximately 70-minute presentation and a brief
Q&A session at the end. Unlimited participants are allowed at each
login site. All registrants receive 180 days of free access to the
recording of the live session. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: June 28, 2012
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| | The freedom and responsiveness of Additive Manufacturing makes these technologies beneficial for a number of areas associated with manufacturing. When properly applied, these technologies can be large contributors to reducing waste, increasing productivity and, ultimately, improving profits. In the current economic times there is no room for the hidden costs in manufacturing. Proper application of these technologies can aid in improved designs, better ergonomics, safer product handling, and easier implementation of many past and present manufacturing enhancement systems. | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: November 18, 2009
| Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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| Summary
There is an increasing demand for faster cutting, better finishes and longer tool life, all while machining more demanding materials. However, these demands are often at odds with one another; faster machining can greatly increase cut temperatures which leads to tool degradation and poor finish, and the need for finishing passes to improve dimensional tolerance and surface finish adds time to production. To accommodate these demands, manufacturing technology has advanced in machine tools, machine controls, processing materials, coolant-lubricant chemistries, and cutting tools. A new machining fluid technology based on the unique cooling, surface cleaning and lubricating qualities of recycled carbon dioxide (CO2), called “CO2 Machining”, has been introduced fairly recently. CO2 Machining technology addresses the demands of hard machining and other hard-to-machine materials applications to enhance the performance, economics and safety of advanced machining technology.
Join us for an engaging webinar that will introduce the CO2 Machining technology. CO2 Machining is a lean and green (Clean) manufacturing technology that eliminates airborne pollution, worker health issues, reduces cutting zone temperatures to enhance tool life and productivity, and eliminates chemical consumption, chemical maintenance and filtration media.
Who Should Attend
Medical components manufacturers
Aerospace components manufacturers
Machining process engineers and supervisors who work with exotic materials and plastics
Sales and technical representatives for tool manufacturers for exotic materials and plastics
Machinists working with plastics and exotic materials
MQL users
Chemical managers
Tool managers
Quality managers in aerospace and medical machining professions
Environmental, Health and Worker Safety professionals | Formats Available: Streaming
| Original Training Session Date: April 07, 2010
On-Demand Release Date: Available Now | Approved Credit: SME: 1 hour Recertification Credit
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