Wednesday, April 28
9:00 am –10:00 am
Negotiating Skills
Whether negotiating a contract, asking for a raise, or buying a car, this entertaining and informative one-hour video presentation will help you get the best deal you can while still maintaining a positive working relationship with the other parties. This free video presentation is a $189 value, but it could save you thousands.
10:15 am –11:15 am
How to Choose an Engineering Plastic for Your Application
Jody Walker, Curbell Plastics www.curbellplastics.com
Many Engineers and Equipment Designers struggle with choosing an Engineering Plastic solution for their application. Curbell Plastics will present a no nonsense approach to material selection. Topics covered will include: An overview of Engineering Plastics properties and how to quickly narrow your selection to a small manageable group of materials to research for your specific application.
11:30 am –12:30 pm
Project Management: In Half the Time, Every Time!
K. Barton Penrod, Control Point Technologies www.control-point-technologies.com
Learn the fundamentals of Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). An H.P. executive calls Critical Chain "The most significant advancement in Project Management methods of the last 40 years". If your company is like many, you continue to experience failure to deliver projects to schedule, budget, and scope, and may experience cancelled projects at an alarming rate.
Although this problem seems to be publicized most in the IT industry, it affects all projects from basic R&D, Job Shops, Engineering, and in all industries. CCPM enables you to deliver project success in half the time, all the time. CCPM users also report increased quality of work life for project team members.
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Aluminum V-Process Castings
Scott Lockett, TPi-Arcade, LLC/ Harmony Castings, Inc. www.harmonycastings.com
This seminar will cover V-Process aluminum casting technology and its advantages, pattern-making techniques and CNC machining of castings. Fundamental casting design and cost drivers for both prototype and production casting and machining requirements will be discussed. Applications to medical, automotive, instrumentation, computer, electronics, optics, and communications will be reviewed. All attendees will be given a “Design Considerations and Technical Data for V-Process Castings” guidebook.
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm
Harmony of Lean & Six Sigma
Don H. Larson, SME Chapter 354
As businesses face increasing pressure to focus more tightly on their primary objective, creating value for the customer, they’re often faced with the challenge of what improvement tools to use. Two of the most common are Lean and Six Sigma. Historically companies have felt constrained to choose one of these two, based on which one seemed the best fit for their particular circumstances. More and more, however, this is a false dilemma – you don’t need to choose – you can have both. This presentation will discuss the common ancestry of these two philosophies and how they’re increasingly compatible and complimentary, rather than competitive, as is often assumed.
Thursday, April 29
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Lowering Risk for Product Development
Steve McLean, WP Manufacturing, Inc. www.wpmfg.com
--- “Build it, and they’ll buy it!” ---On rare occasions that is the case, but most of the time it’s not that easy. As many of us have found out, invention is only one part of the larger product development picture. Many risks, sometimes unforeseen, are out there for both the entrepreneur and the larger product development companies, who are both trying their hardest to get their product launched and into their customer’s hands. This short seminar will address some of most commonly overlooked “gotchas” facing both engineers developing customer-requested products, and inventors who have a great idea, and are dreaming of the big payoff once their product is launched. Join us for some heads-up thinking, and practical advice from Steve McLean, a degreed Aerospace Engineer who has spent nearly 20 years in product development, launching everything from communications satellites, to plastic bird perches. Steve is current President of WP Manufacturing here in Longmont CO.
10:15 am to 11:15 am
Solid Works CAD Software
Marlene Dang, Tridaq, Inc. www.tridaq.com
Kick start your business with SolidWorks. When your company designs better products with SolidWorks, experience a high return on investment (ROI), low total cost of ownership, and reduced time-to-market. Attend this session to find out how.
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Fourslide: High Precision, Low Cost Slide Forming
Tom Malolepsy, Northwest Fourslide, Inc.
Yong Park, Engineering Consultant/Instructor www.nw4s.com
Fourslide is an established and innovative slide forming technology that offers cost effective, high precision small sheet metal parts with reduced lead time and lower cost for tooling. This seminar will provide an overview of the slide forming process and design guidelines for your use. Topics include details of the process and tooling, material selection, design tips and process capabilities. Learn about the advantages of fourslide technology to save time and money for low to high volume precision metal parts.
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
Continuous Improvement with Lean, TOC, and Six Sigma —
Now More Than Ever
K. Barton Penrod, Control Point Technologies www.control-point-technologies.com
Many organizations struggle with their continuous improvement efforts; achieving real bottom line results, whether in cost savings or increased revenues, has proven to be difficult. In spite of the widespread implementation of Lean and Six Sigma principles, poor results can persist. An integration of these three methods, TOC, Lean, and Six Sigma (The TLS process) can generate 5 to 10 times better performance than Lean or Six Sigma alone. This session will explain some of the reasons why, and how using these three sinergistic methods together can transform your system into a competitive weapon!
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