Welcome to the September 2010 edition of our monthly newsletter, Learning to Lean. In this month's edition, we are including a brief presentation on continuous improvement.

Announcements

We still have space available for our upcoming workshops in Orange County, CA. The schedule is below; click here for details.

Course (Click course name to download description, click date to register)	Date
Lean and Value Stream Mapping for Business Processes	Sep 8, 2010
Kaizen Events: 5S, Visual Controls, and Mistake Proofing	Sep 9, 2010
Quick Changeover and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)	Oct 6, 2010
Creating Continuous Flow Manufacturing Cells	Oct 7, 2010
Lean Production Control and Inventory Mgmt.	Nov 3, 2010

For those of you for which classroom training in Southern California is inconvenient, we continue to offer our online lean certification and training programs. These are currently 30% - 50% off through September 21st. To learn more about online lean training including pricing, click here.

Click here for details on all of our training offerings, both on-site at your facility and public.

Continuous Improvement

Lean and Six Sigma continue to be the two most recognizable continuous improvement methodologies. Organizations often embrace one or both of these. While there are many successes using either, there are just as often failures.

In this month's newsletter, we feature a presentation that covers continuous improvement and some critical success factors.

The materials referenced in this newsletter will teach you more about lean. If you would like to learn more, feel free to call us at 866-559-5598 or visit our website and click on "Contact Us."

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