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Next Meeting, September 21, 2006 at Reading Powder Coatings

What: Our next, abbreviated network meeting will focus on Reading Powder Coating’s initial Six-Sigma project, the process and results. When: 9/21/06 from 9am until 11am (abbreviated meeting) Where: Reading Powder Coatings (Tiger Drylac) 1100 Commons Blvd Reading, PA 19605 Phone: 610.926-0655 Who: All network companies MAX 2 ATTENDEES PER COMPANY due to space constraints. Quality… Read more »

July 13, 2006 Network Meeting Summary

A total of 22 participants from: Misco Products Reading Powder Coatings The Rose Corporation Insinger Machine Yoder Brothers American LaFrance Our host……Clean Burn Inc. attended this session. The focus was “visual workplace” primarily, the manufacturing operation. A brief training period; supermarkets, kanban, Little’s Law, FIFO, Andon and other visual tools, followed a greeting from Clean… Read more »

July 13, 2006 at Clean Burn

Our next network meeting will be held Thursday, July 13th between 8:30am and Noon at Clean Burn, 34 Zimmerman Drive, Leola, PA 17540, Phone 717.656.2011. The focus of this meeting will be “the visual factory”. As many of you know, Clean Burn has done a terrific job implementing and maintaining supermarkets, kanbans and other visual… Read more »

Insinger Machine May 16, 2006

All network members and one guest attended our meeting at Insinger Machine in Philadelphia. In attendance: Misco Products Yoder Brothers Rose Corporation Clean Burn Remcon Plastics Reading Powder Coatings Guest: American LaFrance The network toured Insinger’s facility focusing on key improvement opportunities developed by the Value Stream Mapping process completed in Mid-February 2006. Congratulations to… Read more »

Tuesday May 16th

Our next meeting, is being held, Tuesday May 16th, at Insinger Machine, 6245 State Road, Philadelphia, PA 19136-2905, phone 1-800-344-4802, contact Kris Knight. The meeting will be held from 9am until noon. Insinger has chosen “effective measures” as their topic. Two participants from each member company are welcome. We have plans to inject some lively… Read more »

Summary, Network Meetting at The Rose Corporation March 16, 2006

Thursday March 16, 2006 The Lean Thinking Network gathered at The Rose Corporation in Reading Subject: Creating Flow and Pace in a Engineer to Order Environment and Maintaining an Effective Continuous Improvement Environment Attending companies: Clean Burn/Mill Creek Reading Powder Coatings Yoder Brothers The Rose Corporation Absent companies: Misco Products Remcon Plastics Insinger Machine Thanks… Read more »

Insinger Machine

Our newest member, located in Philadelphia, is a 113 year old, family owned business, designing and manufacturing high volume dishwasher for the military, institutions and commercial customers. Insinger has focused their lean program to reduce lead-time, improve flow, quality, improve and simplify inventory control and build towards a long and profitable future. The Insinger team… Read more »

Next Network Meeting

Good morning! Our next meeting: Where: The Rose Corporation, 401 N. 8th Street, Reading, PA 19601. phone (610) 376-5004 When: Thursday, March 16, 2006 from 8:30am until Noon Who: All network members, with a maximum of TWO ATTENDEES PER COMPANY, due to space limitations. What: Our host has selected two subjects……… #1- Flow, Balance and… Read more »

Summary…Network meeting 1.26.06 @ REMCON PLASTICS

Thursday January 26, 2006 The Lean Thinking Network gathered at Remcon Plastics in Reading Subject: Kaizen results for their Kayak assembly and Rotomolding areas Attending companies: Misco Products Clean Burn/Mill Creek Reading Powder Coatings Yoder Brothers The Rose Corporation Remcon Plastics We discussed the difficulties of cultural change, product flow, line balancing, scheduling/capacity planning, safety,… Read more »

Next Network Meeting

The next meeting of the Lean Thinking Network www.leanthinkingnetwork.com: When: Thursday January 26, 2006, 8:30am until Noon Who: TWO attendees per member company (space is limited) What: Remcon will show us their recently kaizened Kayak Assemble area We will discuss Work Elements, task balancing, standardization and visuals Where: Remcon Plastics 208 Chestnut Street Reading, PA… Read more »