SPONSORS

We appreciate the support that these organizations have given to the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange.

If you are interested in sponsoring this year's Exchange, please call Katherine Radeka at (800) 671-6079 or send her an email.

 

 

 

Katherine Radeka of Whittier Consulting Group, Inc. empowers companies to launch products that delight their customers and outrun their competition. We use lean product development practices to repeatably deliver 50% time to market reductions, along with increasing quality, lower costs and increased R & D capacity. We help product developers optimize all four of the value streams that lead to improved profitability: Customer, Knowledge Creation, Product Design & Test, and Production. We invite you to visit the Lean Development Resource Center, a Knowledge Supermarket for sharing lean product and process development best practices, templates and other resources for learning.

Lean Frontiers provides high-quality, laser-focused events aimed at integrating organizational silos in support of the lean enterprise. These focused events provide an ideal venue for like-minded professionals to explore the common issues they face in supporting lean.

Targeted Convergence Corporation (TCC) provides training and software to enable companies to rapidly implement a Toyota-like Lean Product Development System, tailored to their corporate needs and culture. TCC clients have more than doubled their product development performance in 18 months, and expect the gains to continue to grow. Just as Toyota is dominating one of the most competitive industries on earth, you too can dominate your industry! . Visit www.TargetedConvergence.com to get started.

 

 

 

 

Based in Cambridge, MA, the Lean Enterprise Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education, publishing, conferencing, and research center founded in 1997 by management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D. LEI helps organizations transform themselves into lean enterprises. Its management seminars and books help executives and managers develop the leadership behaviors that sustain lean enterprises. LEI's workshops and workbooks teach a variety of lean tools, ranging from basic to more advanced and including: strategy deployment, change management, lean accounting, value-stream mapping, lean logistics, and pull systems, among others. Its Lean Transformation conferences showcase firms making lean breakthroughs. And its Lean Enterprise Partners research program with a small number of enterprises tests new approaches to lean leadership and management. The Lean Global Network, organized by LEI, has 14 nonprofit and nongovernmental global affiliates in South America, Europe, and Asia. For more information visit LEI at www.lean.org.

 

 

 

The Association for Manufacturing Excellence is North America’s premier organization for the exchange of knowledge in Organizational Excellence through the implementation of techniques such as Lean Tools, Leadership, Lean Product Development. Lean Supply Chain and Lean Accounting.

We’re a community whose members want to improve the competitiveness of their organizations and work together by sharing knowledge. AME’s power is in the mentoring relationships that take place among our members. We are the only organization that provides company leaders with educational opportunities to learn leading-edge topics from leaders and fellow practitioners by attending events and through networking.

This year, AME and LPPDE signed a collaboration agreement that will enable each other's constituencies to benefit from training and professional development opportunities in lean product and process development. Look for LPPDE to have a presence at AME's International Conference in October, 2009 in Kentucky.

 

 

 

 

 

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers is the world's leading professional society advancing manufacturing knowledge and influencing more than half a million manufacturing practitioners annually.

Through its communities, publications, expositions and professional development resources, SME promotes an increased awareness of manufacturing engineering and keeps manufacturing professionals up to date on leading trends and technologies. Headquartered in Michigan, the Society has members in more than 70 countries and represents manufacturing practitioners across all industries.