Buker, Inc. Offers The Visual Factory Course

Jan. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- Buker, Inc. offers a Visual Factory Course for companies on their Lean Manufacturing journey.  The Visual Factory Course is a one day event that defines the basic visual factory blueprint of best in class Lean Manufacturing factories.  The course focuses on the visual tools being utilized in Lean factories to drive continuous process improvement.  The Visual Factory Course focuses on:

5 Pillars of Workplace Organization
The Value Stream’s Territory
Visual Production Control
Visual Quality Control
Communication and Visible Progress

Michael Tincher, President of Buker, Inc., stated, “Many companies are engaged in Lean Manufacturing implementation, but most of them stop after some type of initial factory re-arrangement.  The Visual Factory Course is designed to help these companies implement the visual factory characteristics that are paramount to driving continuous process improvements.”

The Buker organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies.  Since 1979 Buker, Inc. has worked with the best manufacturing and distribution enterprises in the areas of Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Six Sigma.  Past and current clients include Rust-Oleum Corporation, Siemens Building Technologies, YKK-AP America, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific, PerkinElmer, Highway Technologies, Inc., Hu-Friedy Manufacturing Company and many others.

For more information go to the Buker, Inc. website, www.Buker.com for free assistance to manufacturing questions (Ask The Expert) and a free download of the Lean Manufacturing Assessment.