01Jan 2023 by Jennifer Ayers
Benchmark Tour @Portland Bottling Company – Sept 27th (Tour is FULL)

Benchmark Tour @Portland Bottling Company – Sept 27th (Tour is FULL)

Learning Tours
As the Pacific Northwest’s leading packer and co-packer for nearly a century, Portland Bottling Company delivers end-to-end services, from filling, packing and cartoning to multi-packing and repacking to 3PL and on/off-site warehousing. Portland Bottling Company is the most trusted, safest, and highest quality ready-to-drink beverages in the industry. On this benchmarking tour, you’ll have the opportunity to see their fully automated bottling lines and get a glimpse of the systems they have in place to create a high performing team environment.  We’ll start with an overview of the company, their lean journey, and their focus on safety and good manufacturing practices.  Then we’ll head out to the floor to see: Their DMS system which includes Gemba walks, communication boards, and management boards Onboarding program and training matrix How Leader Standard…
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20Jan 2022 by Jennifer Ayers
Virtual Tour: Coherent – Feb 10th @9am

Virtual Tour: Coherent – Feb 10th @9am

Learning Tours
Using Kaizen Short Stories to Foster Improvements The Coherent team will showcase how they are working within Covid social distancing requirements and still accomplishing day-to-day Lean improvements. Coherent members will show how they are using the Kaizen Short Stories to communicate their successes and to foster more improvement ideas. On this virtual tour, you will: Learn how the Coherent team shares their lean successes globallyHear about their Lean journeyVenture inside their operations as they showcase some of the Lean tools they’ve implementedDiscover how Kaizen Short Stories helped them continue to make improvements while maintaining social distancing (and remote work)See examples of Kaizen Short Stories and learn about the impact they are having on engagement The Coherent LMS Business Unit is located in Wilsonville and is part of a global leader…
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04Jan 2022 by Jennifer Ayers
Virtual Tour: Smith Gardens – Jan 19th @9am

Virtual Tour: Smith Gardens – Jan 19th @9am

Learning Tours
Topic: Intentional Leadership through Leader Standard Work Join us as we venture inside Smith Gardens to learn more about how they cascade goals throughout their organization and use a pattern for daily improvement (which includes daily coaching cycles and PDCA) to make progress toward their goals. Their current focus area is Leader Standard Work (LSW). On this virtual tour, you will see: How team members are using a Pattern for Daily Improvement (PDI) to achieve their LSW initiativeRelationship building through daily coaching cyclesThe development of problem solvers throughout the organization by empowering employees to take small steps and learn from their failuresThe power of creating an iterative process so LSW can adapt to work level/cycles throughout the yearHow LSW has helped Smith Gardens overcome an obstacle of sustaining their CI…
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03Feb 2016 by Julie Simmons
Learning Tour: Hosted by Columbia Helicopters, March 1, 2016 (Tour is now full)

Learning Tour: Hosted by Columbia Helicopters, March 1, 2016 (Tour is now full)

Learning Tours
Date:   Tuesday, March 1st Time:   7:30am – 3:45pm Loc:     Columbia Helicopters:  14452 Arndt Rd NE, Aurora, OR  97013 Safety:   No open toed shoes.  Safety glasses are required on parts of the shop floor. Columbia Helicopters: Columbia Helicopters is a world leader in heavy-lift helicopter operations and has been an Oregon-based company since 1957.  The company owns and operates the largest private fleet of commercial heavy-lift helicopters in the world.  These aircraft operate in a variety of environments and industries around the world, to include timber harvesting and forestry management, oil exploration and support, firefighting and construction. To keep the company’s fleet of aircraft flying, Columbia’s Aurora headquarters is also home to its extensive maintenance facility.  The company’s maintenance shops and hangar not only contribute to supporting its own aircraft with components…
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