Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.4 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 4 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

This program provides real-world case studies and the tools necessary for industrial facility personnel to incorporate energy efficiency into financial decision making. The training is designed to teach attendees an overview of energy sources, uses, and measurements. Participants will learn how to analyze an electric utility bill, identify the major components of a mechanical system, and develop long-term energy savings strategies using a “systems” approach to minimizing energy costs. 
 

Credits:

Learn how to reduce energy costs through the use of more efficient lighting technologies, improved system control and more during the Fundamentals of Lighting workshop. Participants will also learn advantages and disadvantages of different lighting systems, how to calculate energy cost savings, how to evaluate opportunities and make the business case for investments that reduce energy cost, and how to determine potential energy savings through changing technologies and installing automatic controls.

Low power factor is expensive and can be damaging to many systems. By attending this workshop, you will learn how improving your power factor will reduce electrical bills and increase your electrical system’s capacity.

Join in discussions about:
•  Measuring and calculating power factor
•  Causes of low power factor
•  How power factor can impact utility charges
•  Calculating energy cost savings
•  Installing capacitance
•  Reducing harmonics

This course covers the operation of typical heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and discusses methods of heat recovery to improve overall system efficiency. The course focuses on ASHRAE standard 90.1 and the benefits that are gained by designing or retrofitting a system to this standard.

Participants will learn:

•  How today’s HVAC system was developed and where the industry is going

• How to reduce energy consumption and improve system operation without compromising critical environments

• The various types of heat exchangers

• How temperature and humidity are used together for occupant comfort and to meet the special needs areas of your facility

• How your HVAC system can be used in your fight against mold and mildew

Credits:

Workshop qualifies for 0.4 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you will need to fill out an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 4 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

This workshop provides an introduction to process heating and process heating equipment, such as furnaces, dryers, ovens, heaters, and kilns, used by industry. The course includes discussion of combustion and other heating methods; heat transfer in furnaces; waste heat recovery; commonly used process heating controls; and emissions from heating processes.

You will learn:

• Practical tips on process heating and maintenance
• How to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions from furnaces
• How to use DOE's Process Heating Assessment and Survey Tool (PAST) software tool

The session highlights the use of PHAST, which helps users survey furnaces and heaters, identify major energy-using equipment, prioritize improvement opportunities, and assess available methods to improve thermal efficiency in an industrial plant.

Learn more about pump system performance characteristics. This course discusses performance problems encountered in everyday applications. The workshop covers practical issues involved in field measurements of fluid and electrical data and presents the Pump System Assessment Tool (PSAT) used to assess the performance of pump systems. Learn how the software functions, what data is required, how to use the software when measured data are not available, and what the assessment results mean.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.8 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 8 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

Pumping System Assessment Tool (PSAT) Specialist Qualification 3-Day Workshop

Qualified PSAT Specialists have successfully completed classroom and practical training, passed a rigorous exam, and demonstrated their ability to use the PSAT software tool.

Specialists apply this tool to help their plant or industrial customers identify ways to improve pumping system efficiency. The U.S. DOE recognizes these industry professionals as Qualified Specialists, but does not specifically endorse any individual or company.

Become a Pumping System Assessment Tool Qualified Specialist

Earn recognition as a qualified pump system specialist in the use of DOE's Pumping System Assessment Tool (PSAT) software by attending a qualification workshop.

PSAT helps users assess energy savings opportunities in pumping systems, relying on field measurements of flow rate, head, and either motor power or current to perform the assessment. Using algorithms from Hydraulic Institute standards and motor performance characteristics from DOE's MotorMaster+ database, PSAT quickly estimates existing pump and motor efficiency and calculates the potential energy and cost savings of a system optimized to work at peak efficiency.

Demand is high for the software and training, and continues to grow. To meet the demand, and increase the number of PSAT experts to assist end users, DOE is working with the pumping industry and the Hydraulic Institute, to train and qualify experts in the use of PSAT. The qualifying workshops prepare professionals with extensive experience in pumping systems to use PSAT in their system assessments. Participants learn:

• How to accurately acquire input data for PSAT
• How to prescreen pumping systems to select the "vital" systems for further review
• How to use the PSAT software
• The difference between measurements and requirements
• The importance of a system perspective

This course covers the operation of typical steam systems and discusses methods of system efficiency improvement. This end-user focused class demonstrates how to compute your current cost of steam, how to measure and create a baseline of system performance, and how to determine the impact of different boiler control systems. Learn basic approaches for cutting costs; identify steps for proper system operation, maintenance, and point-of-use accountability.

The course covers three key areas of potential system improvement:

• Steam Generation Efficiency
• Resource Utililization Effectiveness
• Steam Distribution System Losses

The course introduces the Steam System Scoping Tool (SSST) and the Steam System Assessment Tool (SSAT). The steam opportunity assessment tools developed by DOE's uses the Steam System Survey Guide as a technical reference. The training also introduces the 3E Plus insulation appraisal software and a course example is presented that uses this software.

Have you ever expressed frustration around perceived poor communication?  Effective communication is all about the transfer of information and the accurate understanding of that information.  This workshop will explore the reason why communication efforts fail and then discover techniques to help improve your communication personal communication skills.

Objectives:

Outcomes:

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.4 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 4 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

This module builds the foundation for helping your team leaders align team members with your organization's strategic objectives. Essential Skills of Leadership teaches team leaders how to maintain team members' self-esteem, focus on behavior, and encourage others to commit themselves to common goals.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.4 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 4 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

 

Excellent leadership is essential to the organization’s survival.  Developing leadership for any organization requires an understanding of the basic principles of leadership and the practices and structures that enable others to learn to lead.  Today’s workforce is changing and requires a new leadership focus.  There are many leadership styles but which one will work best in your organization with your new workforce?  Proper leadership will bring encouragement, empowerment, and renewed vitality to your organization. .

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This workshop is part of a six session Leadership Series. To register for all six courses, visit:
https://www.eventreg.purdue.edu/ec2k/CourseListing.asp?master_id=2712&master_version=1&course_area=1098&course_number=456&course_subtitle=00  

Registration for this program includes all six workshops listed below. If you do not want to take allsix workshops, you may register for the individual workshops at their respective websites listed with each entry.

• Essential Skills of Leadership - September 5, 2012 ($99)
  This module builds the foundation for helping your team leaders align team members with your organization's strategic objectives. Essential Skills of Leadership teaches team leaders how to maintain team members' self-esteem, focus on behavior, and encourage others to commit themselves to common goals.
  
• Leadership Basics -  September 19, 2012 ($99) 
  Excellent leadership is essential to the organization’s survival.  Developing leadership for any organization requires an understanding of the basic principles of leadership and the practices and structures that enable others to learn to lead.  Today’s workforce is changing and requires a new leadership focus.  There are many leadership styles but which one will work best in your organization with your new workforce?  Proper leadership will bring encouragement, empowerment, and renewed vitality to your organization.
  
• Effective Communication – October 3, 2012 ($99)
  Have you ever expressed frustration around perceived poor communication?  Effective communication is all about the transfer of information and the accurate understanding of that information.  This workshop will explore the reason why communication efforts fail and then discover techniques to help improve your communication personal communication skills.
  
• Managing Performance – Improving Performance – October 17, 2012 ($99)
  Helping your people move toward their performance potential is of utmost importance to any organization.  This seminar will help you master the skills that ensure peak performance and maximize goal achievement from your people.
  
• Time Management and Goal Setting – October 31, 2012 ($99)
  Feel burned out?  Doesn’t seem to be enough time in a day?  Doing more with less?  This seminar will help you explore time management techniques to put you back in control of your job and your life. This interactive session will help you build strategies to set goals and priorities while maximizing time management opportunities. Learn how to accomplish more without enjoying it less.  
  
• Problem Solving and Decision Making – Friday, November 16, 2012  ($99)
  As a manager, you are confronted with situations that need decisions.  Take a leadership role in the problem solving and decision making process.  This experientially based workshop will help you understand the decision making process.

Helping your people move toward their performance potential is of utmost importance to any organization.  This seminar will help you master the skills that ensure peak performance and maximize goal achievement from your people.

Objectives:

Outcomes:

As a manager, you are confronted with situations that need decisions.  Take a leadership role in the problem solving and decision making process.  This experientially based workshop will help you understand the decision making process.

Objectives:

Outcomes:

Feel burned out?  Doesn’t seem to be enough time in a day?  Doing more with less?  This seminar will help you explore time management techniques to put you back in control of your job and your life. This interactive session will help you build strategies to set goals and priorities while maximizing time management opportunities. Learn how to accomplish more without enjoying it less.  

Objectives:

Outcomes:

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.4 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 4 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

5S System – The Visual Workplace
Experience how the 5S System reduces waste in a simulated production facility. Participants learn the concepts of the 5S System and then apply them to transform a cluttered, disorganized production area into a clean, organized and orderly workplace. 
 

While an organized workspace is certainly appealing to the eye, there’s no doubt that the value of a front office 5S program extends well beyond an orderly appearance! In fact, the outcome is more value-added output per worker, with improvement in productivity, safety and quality going right to your bottom line.

Learn why Lean makes work rewarding and at the same time profitable and enduring. Upon successful completion, each attendee receives a Purdue University Advanced Manufacturing Lean Practitioner I Certificate. This certificate is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) prescribed tools and training methods, a widely accepted national standard in workforce development, and is offered in Indiana only through Purdue University.

To earn your Advanced Manufacturing (Lean) Practitioner I certificate, please register for the series at $1,475 which includes all 5 workshop dates. 

You may also register for the individual workshop dates at $295 per day.  Contact mepworkshops@purdue.edu if you are interested in registering for individual workshop dates.

Areas of focus include:

Day 1: Principles of Lean Manufacturing 101 (8 hours)
An all-day, high energy, fast-paced presentation, in tandem with hands-on simulation activities so participants learn what advanced manufacturing is all about; identify the eight wastes in manufacturing and ways to reduce them.

Day 2: 5S System – The Visual Workplace (8 hours)
Experience how the 5S System reduces waste in a simulated production facility. Participants learn the concepts of the 5S System and then apply them to transform a cluttered, disorganized production area into a clean, organized and orderly workplace. 
 
Day 3: Principles of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) (8 hours)
Learn how to create a value map of your current- and future-state processes. Understand the total flow of the value stream, see the sources of waste, determine common language about the process, show linkage of information and process, develop an improvement plan, and prioritize activities. 
 
Day 4: Quick Changeover/Set-up Reduction (8 hours)
Learn the fundamentals of set-up reduction in applying quick-change thinking to any type of setup or industry. Focus on attaining quick changeover through the systematic elimination of the internal components while streamlining the final procedure. 
 
Day 5: Total Productive Maintenance (8 hours)
Gain knowledge of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and how it relates to capacity. Apply TPM principles and techniques to equipment in a hands-on simulation and experience how applying TPM can achieve dramatic improvements in uptime and increased capacity.

Learn why Lean makes work rewarding and at the same time profitable and enduring. Upon successful completion each attendee receives a Purdue University Advanced Manufacturing Lean Practitioner II Certificate. This certificate is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) prescribed tools and training methods, a widely accepted national standard in workforce development, and is offered in Indiana only through Purdue University.

To earn your Advanced Manufacturing (Lean) Practitioner II certificate, please register for the series at $1,475 which includes all 5 workshop dates. You may also register for the individual workshop dates at $295 per day. Contact mepworkshops@purdue.edu if you are interested in registering for individual workshop dates.

Areas of focus include:

Day 1: Cellular Flow Manufacturing (8 hrs)
Discover how to link and balance operations to reduce lead times, minimize WIP, optimize floor space usage and improve productivity using a five-step process for designing and implementing work cells.

Day 2: Pull/Kanban Systems (8 hrs)
Control resources in a production process by replacing only what has been consumed. Applies principles of Pull System/Kanban in a life-like simulation and demonstrates how principles can be applied to a variety of situations.

Day 3: Advanced Problem Solving (8 hrs)
Provides the background and skills necessary to lead an effective, structured, team-based, analytical approach that detects potential problems and thus alleviate chronic failure problems within an organization. Learn how to apply several techniques to detect, identify, analyze and solve performance problems by understanding variation, and uncover root causes and apply the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC problem solving approach.

Day 4: Standard Work (4 hrs) & Error Proofing (4 hrs)
Standard Work: Provides you with the information and practice you need to participate in implementing standardization and standard work in your workplace. This workshop presents an approach to implementing standardization and standard work methods designed to eliminate waste from production processes. The methods and goals discussed in this workshop are closely related to the lean manufacturing system.
Error Proofing: Using simple, usually low-cost devices, fixtures, and procedures to reduce/eliminate errors. Stops errors before defective parts are created. Frees up the need for human vigilance and memory.

Day 5: Kaizen Event Facilitation( 8 hrs)
Kaizen means “continuous improvement.” This continuous improvement methodology combines Lean Manufacturing Tools such as the 5Ss of Workplace Organization and Standardization, Cells, Pull/Kanban, Set-up Reduction, and Line Balancing. Each tool incorporates team empowerment, brainstorming, and problem solving to rapidly make improvements to a specific product or portions of work processes.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 4.0 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 40 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

This one-day workshop provides the background and skills necessary to lead an effective, structured, team-based, analytical approach that detects potential problems and thus alleviate chronic failure problems within an organization. Learn how to apply several techniques to detect, identify, analyze and solve performance problems by understanding variation, and uncover root causes and apply the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC problem solving approach. Be exposed to several techniques that help reduce waste, eliminate organizational inefficiencies, determine weaknesses in systems and processes, and reduce human error. Topics include Brainstorming, Affinity Diagrams, Cause and Effect Diagrams, 5 Why’s, 20 Questions, Run Charts, Histograms, Pareto Analysis, and Decision Tree Analysis.

Learn why Lean that makes work rewarding and at the same time profitable and enduring. Upon successful completion each attendee receives a Purdue University Advanced Manufacturing Certificate. This certificate is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) prescribed tools and training methods, a widely accepted national standard in workforce development, and is offered in Indiana only through Purdue University.

Areas of focus include:

Day 1:  Principles of Lean Office with Live Simulation (8 hours)
This full-day workshop combines classroom-style learning with an interactive "live" simulation – during which class participants become managers and workers within a fictitious company. Workshop participants learn lean definitions and techniques, and explore the application of lean techniques in a simulated office. Participants ultimately transform the simulated office in three "stages." At the end of the day, the office has been redesigned to improve customer and employee satisfaction and increase the speed of the order-to-cash cycle.

Day 2: Principles of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) (8 hours)
Learn how to create a value map of your current- and future-state processes. Understand the total flow of the value stream, see the sources of waste, determine common language about the process, show linkage of information and process, develop an improvement plan, and prioritize activities.

Day 3: 5S System – The Visual Workplace (8 hours)
Experience how the 5S System reduces waste in a simulated production facility. Participants learn the concepts of the 5S System and then apply them to transform a cluttered, disorganized production area into a clean, organized and orderly workplace.

Day 4: Standard Work (4 hrs) & Error Proofing (4 hrs)
Standard Work: Provides you with the information and practice you need to participate in implementing standardization and standard work in your workplace. This workshop presents an approach to implementing standardization and standard work methods designed to eliminate waste from production processes. The methods and goals discussed in this workshop are closely related to the lean manufacturing system.
Error Proofing: Using simple, usually low-cost devices, fixtures, and procedures to reduce/eliminate errors. Stops errors before defective parts are created. Frees up the need for human vigilance and memory.

Day 5: Problem Solving Basics and Culture Change (8 hours)
Provides the background and skills necessary to lead an effective, structured, team-based, analytical approach that detects potential problems and thus alleviate chronic failure problems within an organization. Learn how to apply several techniques to detect, identify, analyze and solve performance problems by understanding variation, and uncover root causes and apply the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC problem solving approach.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 4.0 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 40 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

Discover how to link and balance operations to reduce lead times, minimize WIP, optimize floor space usage and improve productivity using a five-step process for designing and implementing work cells.

The instructor will lead participants through a proven and reliable methodology for designing and implementing work cells. This training applies to both assembly and machine-based processes.

Control resources in a production process by replacing only what has been consumed.  Applies principles of Pull System/Kanban in a life-like simulation and demonstrates how principles can be applied to a variety of situations.

Participants learn the fundamentals of set-up reduction in applying quick-change thinking to any type of setup or industry. This training focuses on attaining quick changeover through the systematic elimination of the internal components of a setup, while streamlining the final procedure. Reductions in set-up time mean you can produce in smaller lots, thereby making a greater variety of products in the same amount of time.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.8 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 8 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

This program offers you an opportunity to experience first hand how the 5S System reduces waste in the mounting plate assembly area of a simulated production facility. Participants learn the concepts of the 5S System and then apply them to transform a cluttered, disorganized production area into a clean, organized, and orderly workplace.

Course Highlights

• Sort through all items
• Set in Order remaining items
• Shine or clean everything
• Standardize the first 3 Ss by implementing visual displays and controls
• Sustain the gains

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.8 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 8 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.8 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 8 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

In just two days, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills you need to audit your quality system!  We’ll be

talking about auditing principles and process auditing techniques, as well as reviewing the ISO 9001:2008 standards.

Agenda:

Day One

• ISO overview
• Audit principles
• ISO 9001:2008 Standard requirements

Day Two

• Process auditing
• Corrective action and preventive actions
• Reporting effectively on auditing results

Credits:
Workshop qualifies for 1.6 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 16 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

Risk management concepts and philosophies:
• What is risk (ISO 31000)
• Where do risks appear?
• What is risk management?
• What are examples of risk management documentation (policies, procedures, and records)?

Risk management tools:
• Process mapping
• Interviews/auditing
• Structured brainstorming /list reduction
• Fishbone
• Failure mode effect analysis (FMEA)

This course will enable participants to understand root cause analysis as a procedure for analyzing the causes of problems to determine what can be done to solve or prevent them.

This one-day workshop provides the background and skills necessary to lead an effective, structured, team-based, analytical approach that detects potential problems and thus alleviate chronic failure problems within an organization. 

You Will Learn:

• How eliminating defects fits into a continuous improvement strategic initiative
• The 4 essential steps of creative problem solving
• 5 golden rules of problem solving
•  The 5 step DMAIC process for problem solving
•  Strategic problem-solving tools and techniques

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.8 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 8 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

The IC-DISC provides U.S. exporters and their shareholders permanent tax savings (20% of net export income). The basic operation of an IC-DISC can be demonstrated as follows:

• A U.S. exporter or shareholder(s) forms an IC-DISC corporation (owned by the shareholder(s) of the corporation)

• The U.S. exporter pays a tax deductible commission (at an estimated regular tax rate of 35%)

• The qualifying IC-DISC entity pays no U.S. income tax on the commission income

• The commission income is accumulated in the IC-DISC and remains untaxed until the IS-DISC decides to pay a dividend to its shareholder(s), at the lower preferred qualified dividend tax rate of 15%

• The tax benefit is a 20% tax savings (35% regular tax rate less 15% dividends tax rate)

•  R&D Tax Credit 
• Cost Segregation Studies
• Inventory Tax Strategies
• Commercial Building “Green” Tax Deductions

Purdue University Six Sigma Black Belt training and certificate program offers a cost-effective method to train and certify in Six Sigma techniques. Six Sigma combines a detailed roadmap (DMAIC: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) with powerful statistical tools to attack and resolve your most critical business issues. Successful Six Sigma projects produce measurable results and help increase a company's skill in process optimization and continuous improvement.

A Black Belt Training Certificate is granted to those participants that attend all 12 days of training, and pass both the Green Belt Exam and the Black Belt exam.  The Green Belt exam is administered on Day 6 and participants must pass the exam to continue on to the black belt training.  Participants who do not pass the green belt exam may repeat the training and exam at no cost at a later date.

Black Belt Certification is granted to attendees who have received the Black Belt Training Certificate and successfully completed a Black Belt project.

Event Details:
Purdue University Six Sigma Green Belts are trained in a subset of Black Belt tools and methodologies. Green Belts assist Black Belts with major projects and can independently lead minor projects. At many companies, Green Belts have a part-time continuous improvement role. The Green Belt training is for employees at all levels of an organization. Participants will leave the training with a thorough understanding of the DMAIC process, data collection techniques and the statistical methods used in Six Sigma projects.

A Green Belt Training Certificate is granted to those participants that attend all 6 days of training and pass the Green Belt exam.
Green Belt Certification is granted to attendees who have received the Green Belt Training Certificate and successfully completed a Green Belt project.

Note: Six Sigma Black Belt training is also available for an additional 6-days of training (12-days total) and an additional $1,000 ($3,000 total). 

Purdue  University TAP/MEP’s Six-Sigma White Belt workshop prepares you to be well-grounded in an awareness of successful Six Sigma deployment. Our training tools and methodology are a widely accepted industry standard!

After completing this high-impact program, you can become a qualified team member of a Green Belt or

Black Belt Project Team.  Even if this is the only belt you obtain, you’ll be a better participant and

supporter of any Six Sigma project that you participate in.

At the completion of this training program, you will:

- Understand and define the quality philosophy of Six Sigma and DMAIC

- Identify benefits and objectives of Six Sigma 

- Be able to outline the Six Sigma implementation process

- Identify the DMAIC process

- Demonstrate the differences between discrete or continuous data

- Define the costs of poor quality (COPQ)

- Identify a capable process vs. non-capable process

- Define the applications of statistical techniques to solve business related problems.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.8 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 8 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

About the 2012 IW Best Plants Conference

Wondering how you can become more efficient and add $ to your bottom line? Learn proven strategies and best practices to run your operations smarter, leaner, better and increase profits at the 2012 IW Best Plants Conference, April 23-25 at the Indiana Convention Center. Attendees will learn how during plant tours, breakout sessions, leading expert keynotes, Purdue TAP workshops, and networking with peers (including on-field activities at Lucas Oil Stadium). See why 99% of attendees would recommend the conference to a colleague. And, as a sponsor of the event, the Purdue TAP is pleased to offer you 10% off (code: BP12PURDUE). Purdue University TAP-MEP’s Six-Sigma White Belt workshop prepares you to be well-grounded in an awareness of successful Six Sigma deployment. Our training tools and methodology are a widely accepted industry standard!

Purdue Six Sigma White Belt

After completing this high-impact program, you can become a qualified team member of a Green Belt or

Black Belt Project Team. Even if this is the only belt you obtain, you’ll be a better participant and

supporter of any Six Sigma project that you participate in.

At the completion of this training program, you will:

- Understand and define the quality philosophy of Six Sigma and DMAIC

- Identify benefits and objectives of Six Sigma

- Be able to outline the Six Sigma implementation process

- Identify the DMAIC process

- Demonstrate the differences between discrete or continuous data

- Define the costs of poor quality (COPQ)

- Identify a capable process vs. non-capable process

- Define the applications of statistical techniques to solve business related problems.

To Register:

Visit www.iwbestplants.com for more information. Purdue TAP is pleased to offer you 10% off (code: BP12PURDUE).

How Can You Get Products to Market Faster? 

Apply lean principles to your product design process using the tools of Lean Product Development (LPD)!

Lean Product Development offers tools and methods to reduce waste and improve results in product development.  The typical product engineer only does 1.7 hours of value added work in an eight-hour day.  Lean Product Development gives you ways to reduce some of the wasted time built into the design process.

This half-day workshop introduces you to the basic concepts of Lean Product Development.  We will demonstrate methods and tools that can help you with your product development challenges.

These tools can help you:

Ask Us About: A two-day LPD “Quickstart” Workshop available onsite at your facility.  We will introduce your team to the benefits and methodologies of Lean Product Development.  We’ll show you six points of the ideal product development process.  Hands-on exercises by your team will demonstrate how the tools can be applied to your company.  Contact Rich Meyer for more details at Contact Rich Meyer by phone at (765) 404-2128 or email: rgmeyer@purdue.edu.

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.4 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 4 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

TWI Overview – A Learn-by-Doing Program
Learn how to leverage the role of your supervisors & team leaders!

Developed in the U.S. during WWII to train replacements of an industrial workforce who were off fighting a war, Training Within Industry (TWI) provided rapid and consistent training and is recognized as part of what helped the Allied forces secure victory. TWI was an unqualified success . . . but became a faded memory in the U.S. after the war.

But thankfully TWI experienced a comeback, and has become a critical connection with lean!  In The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker references “going to the source”, “observing detail” and “learning by doing.”  These are all influenced by TWI, and became the backbone of Toyota’s standardized philosophy.  Standardized work = a cooperative effort between the foreman and the worker.  And in support of the supervisor, TWI is the training choice for “strict adherence to standardized operations for new employee training.”

TWI training consists of four standardized modules:

1.       Job Relations Training (JR): builds positive employee relations, increases cooperation and motivation, and how to effectively resolve conflicts.

2.       Job Instruction Training (JI):  quickly training employees to do a job correctly, safely, and conscientiously.

3.       Job Methods Training (JM): improving the way jobs are done for continual improvement

4.       Job Safety Training (JS): creating a safe workplace

And the bottom-line benefits?  Production people accept responsibility for their work, participate in the improvement process, learn how to interact as part of a team, and increase their level of job satisfaction.

Training Within Industry – critical to sustaining “lean” AND maintaining Continuous Improvement momentum.  And luckily, it’s never too late to incorporate this valuable tool into your program!

To Register:Visit www.iwbestplants.com  for more information. Purdue TAP is pleased to offer you 10% off (code: BP12PURDUE).

Credits: Workshop qualifies for 0.4 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University.

Credits:
Workshop qualifies for 1.0 CEUs (continuing education units) through Purdue University. There is a $15 processing fee to obtain your CEU transcript record. If you are interested in obtaining CEUs, you can prepay at registration or request an application form at the end of the session. Workshop also qualifies for 10 PDHs (professional development hours) through the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. You will be given a Certificate of Attendance to submit to the Board for these credits.

TWI Institute Certified Trainer Program

Job Instruction (JI) June 11-15, 2012 in Indianapolis

Price: $4,900 (includes workshop registration and Train-the-Trainer kit*)

More information is available at: http://twi-institute.com/trainer_programs.htm.

To Register: Register for this course through the TWI Institute by contacting us at: http://twi-institute.com/contact_us.htm