Session Title

TWI for Professionals: How to Increase Productivity and Reduce Errors for Supply Chain Professionals, Managers, and Engineers.

Session Abstract

The value of TWI to reduce waste, standardize best practices, and continually improve processes is recognized by manufacturing organizations throughout the world.  The value of TWI for professionals and manufacturing support teams however is a well kept secret! Finding a way to transfer "tribal knowledge", and to remove obstacles is key to achieving a team's, organization's, or business's  success.  TWI provides powerful tools to examine non-manufacturing value streams, find wastes that are causing delays and errors, and applies techniques to solve these problems. 

Specific Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this session, participants will learn…

• How to apply JI as a problem solving tool

• How to use JI to capture "Tribal Knowledge"

• Using JI as a communication tool that improves innovation

Target Audience

Presenter Biography

Laura Murray is a Lean Transformation Coach at IBM’s Burlington, VT semiconductor manufacturing facility.  She has been with IBM since 1992 and has held positions in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, and most recently as a facilitator and coach for IBM’s lean transformation team.  She has also held positions that drive productivity improvements using Range Management, Supply Chain Plan vs. Actual,  and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (O.E.E.) applications and theories.

Since 1999, Laura has worked with a group of colleagues to drive improvements throughout the IBM Microelectronics Division at their Burlington Vermont, East Fishkill New York, and Bromont Canada manufacturing facilities.  In 2006, Laura began to explore and populate the benefits of TWI to the manufacturing and manufacturing support organizations as part of IBM’s approach to improving standard work methods.  The result has been a large-scale adoption of TWI as a problem solving tool that has been delivered to over 4000 production employees, supply chain professionals, staff, technicians, engineers, and managers.