Jennifer Ayers, Author at NWHPEC

07May 2024 by Jennifer Ayers

Benchmarking Tour: WCT – May 16 (FULL)

Host Company – World Class Technology (WCT) website World Class Technology (WCT), located in McMinnville, OR has quickly become a global leader in the latest Metal Injection Molding techniques. Years of refining techniques have created uncompromising quality, high yields, and cost efficiency. WCT's state of the art equipment includes CAD/CAM design, CNC, EDM, Metal Injection Molding (MIM), Sintering and Coining. Our first exposure to CI was in 2019 when we invited Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership to come in and help with a backlog problem in one of our production lines which resulted in a huge success. Since then, CI has been one of our main focuses for identifying Value Added and Non-Value Added steps in our production process. We’re still new to this CI mindset and still learning every day to…

19Mar 2024 by Jennifer Ayers

Lean 101 (6 week series) starts April 23rd (FULL)

Beginner~, Classes, Foundational~

Join us on a journey to discover the basic elements of lean principles and see the impact they make when you put them into practice. This course consists of six, one-hour classes focused on the foundational elements of lean. During this course, you will learn more about the history/background of lean, why these principles are important to creating a culture of excellence, standard work, 8 wastes, 5S, PDCA, and visual management. Each week will include instruction, discussion, and simulations followed by small project assignments between each class to help you practice the concepts in your own environment.Lean 101 is a beginning-level course that teaches participants the basic concepts of Lean Thinking. It is suitable for those who work in office or manufacturing environments and includes many real-world examples from a…

19Mar 2024 by Jennifer Ayers

Benchmarking Tour: Ichor Systems – April 25th (FULL)

Events, Learning Tours

Host Company – Ichor Systems (website link) Ichor is the leader in the design, engineering and manufacturing of critical fluid delivery subsystems and components for semiconductor capital equipment. Our products include the gas and chemical delivery subsystems that are key elements in the process tools used for commercial semiconductor device manufacturing. At our Tualatin, Oregon facility, our key processes include plastic fabrication for chemical delivery systems and stainless fabrications for gas delivery systems. Tour Summary Our goal as we began re-energizing our CI program a few years ago was a strong focus on sustaining improvement and employee engagement. As we moved forward implementing 5S, visual management, and standard work, we wanted to ensure continuous improvement efforts were ongoing, recognized, and shared among all our sites. One of the key management practices…

19Mar 2024 by Jennifer Ayers

Leader Standard Work – May 3rd (1 spot left)

Application~, Beginner~, Classes, Leadership~

Class Description It's time to learn and apply Leader Standard Work to your daily routine! The true purpose of leadership is to empower and develop your employees so they can achieve awesome things. To accomplish this, you need a standard way of working that will allow you to maximize your efficiency and impact while fulfilling your most important duty to your people.As the whirlwind takes over our day, we quickly lose control of our priorities. Once we fall into firefighting mode, our ability to improve and sustain processes and activities becomes secondary. This is where Leader Standard Work (LSW) comes into play. LSW is the foundation to creating new leadership habits that will allow you to spend more time listening to your team, developing your team’s problem-solving abilities, and sustaining…

14Mar 2024 by Jennifer Ayers

The Bench – April 22nd

Benchmark Request, Events

Two benchmarking topics: Choose to discuss 1) 5S/6S programs or 2) Employee Engagement (we split into breakout rooms) To increase the opportunities for each of our members to collaborate, share, and learn from each other we are inviting you to join us at The Bench on the 22nd of each month. The Bench is an open-forum exchange of best practices. In April, we’ll split into self-assigned groups and focus on the list of topics below. 1) 5S/6S programs - how to get started, how to sustain, easy wins, etc. 2) Employee Engagement - how you influence, how do you measure, what challenges are you facing, etc. Date: April 22, 2024 Time: 11-11:55am (Pacific) Registration: available for NWHPEC members through Zoom (click below) Register

14Mar 2024 by Jennifer Ayers

TWI Job Instruction – Apr 29-May 2nd (FULL)

Application~, Classes, Developing People~

Title: TWI Job Instruction (JI) Training Description: This four-day (~3.5 hrs/day) hands-on class teaches the process for creating effective Job Instructions. Participants will learn this four-step method using a part or process they bring to the class. They will walk away with a complete Job Instruction Breakdown sheet for the part/process of their choice. Date: April 29 - May 2, 2024 Time: 8am – 11:30am Location: Genentech Hillsboro Operations, 4625 NE Brookwood Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124 Cost: $450 per person Overview: The Training Within Industry (TWI) programs were developed in the United States sixty years ago and played a major role in boosting industrial production to the levels required to win the Second World War. After the war, they were introduced around the world and, most notably, are still in wide use in Japan today. The…

19Feb 2024 by Jennifer Ayers

The Bench – March 22nd

Benchmark Request, Events

Two benchmarking topics: Choose to discuss 1) DEI or 2) Quality Metrics/Quality Systems To increase the opportunities for each of our members to collaborate, share, and learn from each other we are inviting you to join us at The Bench on the 22nd of each month. The Bench is an open-forum exchange of best practices. In March, we’ll split into self-assigned groups and focus on the list of topics below. 1) DEI - An opportunity to talk about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in your organization. 2) Quality Metrics and Quality Systems. How do you measure quality? What's working, what isn't? How are your systems set up to support your metrics? Date: Mar 22, 2024 Time: 11-11:55am (Pacific) Registration: available for NWHPEC members through Zoom (click below) Register

Author: Jennifer Ayers