Why LEAN is Critical to Rebuilding American Manufacturing

Ms. Nash-Hoff's presentation emphasizes Lean Manufacturing principles, emphasizing rapid, iterative implementation for visible gains. Lean offers benefits like waste elimination, improved customer value, increased production capacity, and potential for U.S. manufacturing leadership.
  • Thursday
  • May
  • 01
  • 2025
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60 Minutes
IMG Michele Nash-Hoff
Webinar Id: 61067
Live
Session
$119.00
Single Attendee
$249.00
Group Attendees
Recorded
Session
$159.00
Single Attendee
$359.00
Group Attendees
Combo
Live+Recorded
$249.00
Single Attendee
$549.00
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Overview:

Ms. Nash-Hoff’s presentation will show why Lean principles, tools, practices are timeless and discuss the challenge of adapting the timeless principles of Lean by making Lean very relevant and friendly to today’s mainstream manufacturing executive and organization. Lean is more than individual’s learning technical skills. It is essential to socialize Lean among departments and peer groups and at the heart of culture change.

She will discuss how Lean can be adapted for rapid, iterative implementation to achieve visible gains within the first 6 months, which directly tie to company priorities and demonstrate a ROI.  She will discuss how the paradigm of developing skills has shifted from classroom training to learn-by-doing. Lean is friendly when it is introduced in easy-to-understand terminology and learn-by-doing happens in small pieces with team-based activities on the production floor.

She will also share a couple of case studies of small manufacturers who deployed Lean.

Why should you Attend:

Lean Manufacturing continuously eliminates waste, bottlenecks and improves customer value through employee engagement utilizing data-driven tools. Companies which have implemented a Lean system find those troubling problems easier to address.

Lean enables companies to increase production capacity, improve quality, reduce lead times, reduce inventory, and increase profits.

A two-to-three times expansion of Lean Manufacturing adoption is a pathway to re-establishing the U.S. as a manufacturing leader.  

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • What are the benefits of Lean?
  • How do you get started on Lean? 
  • What were the results of the Lean survey by Industry Reimagined 2030?
  • What were some of the lessons learned from the 1st Phase of Lean deployment? 
  • What were the measurable and qualitative and improvements from Lean in ten operations areas
  •  What would improve the adoption of Lean?

Who Will Benefit:

  • Owners and/or Managers of Original Equipment Manufacturers, Job Shop Companies, Contract Manufacturers, and Companies Providing Secondary Operations and Services to all of the above
  • CEO's/CFO's/Presidents 
  • Vice Presidents
  • Operation, Production or Manufacturing Managers and supervisors
  • Quality Managers

Speaker Profile

Michele Nash Hoff is founder and president of ElectroFab Sales, a sales agency specializing in helping manufacturers select the right processes for their products.

She is a director on the board of the San Diego Inventors Forum, on the Advisory Board of the American R & D Institute, as well as an advisor to the board of the San Diego chapter of SME.

Michele is the author of Rebuild Manufacturing – the key to American Prosperity, which is a sequel to the 2009 and 2012 edition of Can American Manufacturing Be Saved? Why We Should and How We Can available at www.amazon.com. She writes blog articles for https://americanjobsalliance.com/

Michele earned a B. A. from San Diego State University and is a 1994 graduate of San Diego’s leadership program (LEAD San Diego). She earned a certificate in Total Quality Management in 1993 and a Yellow Belt in Lean Six Sigma in 2014.