Lean Six Sigma News: Some important activities that happened for the week November 30, 2015

Lean six sigma newsHere are the top picks for the Lean Six Sigma News, Updates, Success Stories from around the web that could be important and of interest to you for the week November 30, 2015

Pearl River Community College to host 5 week manufacturing skills program in 2016

The objective of this program is to teach students the latest manufacturing techniques in lean manufacturing, 5s, SPC (Statistical Process Control) along with other trainings.

 

Six New Hampshire companies receive job training funds

These grants will help them train 130 employees on the new skills. The grant received was for a total of $77,105. The companies matched the training funds, bringing the total amount for training to $154,210.

The ones receiving the grants are

  • Associated Grocers of New England Inc. of Pembroke
  • Delta Dental Plan of NH, Concord
  • Globe Manufacturing Company LLC of Pittsfield
  • Titeflex Aerospace (Smith Tubular Systems Inc.) of Laconia
  • GL&V USA Inc. of Nashua
  • Whitney Brothers Company of Keene

These grants will be used for training employees at UNH Leadership Development Program or for Lean manufacturing.

 

Hat trick Of Awards for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) at Continual Improvement & Innovation (CII) Symposium

Dubai Quality Group’s (DQG) 7th Continual Improvement and Innovation (CII) Symposium was organized on 12th November 2015. The aim of this symposium was to recognize the spirit of excellence and how the organization’s process can be improved using breakthrough and systematic, structured data driven approach.

Four of EGA’s case studies were short-listed for the Live Competition during the symposium. Of the four case studies, 2 case studies won the Gold Awards while one case study won the Silver Award.

 

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