Learn from others. Talk with your peers. Hear new ideas and benchmark your operations' knowledge, skills, and abilities. It's hard to grow professionally if all your time is spent looking internally.

Professional Associations

February 16, 2012: OHIO: Andrew Savitz, author of The Triple Bottom Line, will talk with executives from 8-11 a.m. about practical steps in creating a profitable and sustainable organization in this era of challenging environmental and social pressures. And the price is right: FREE!

February 29 - March 1, 2012: UTAH: Have a class ring from high school? Maybe a trophy? OC Tanner likely made it. The company is opening its doors for 2 days to share how they make customized pieces one at a time profitably. This workshop explores the company’s Lean journey, policy deployment, order fulfillment system, right-sized equipment, problem-solving, TWI, visual management, logistics and employee engagement. In other words, attendees will see the results of one-piece flow made possible by a True North culture focused on respect for people and continuous improvement.

March 28-29, 2012: BOSTON MA: MicroManufacturing and NanoManufacturing joint conferences are presented by SME, the Society for Manufacturing Engineering. Whether you are interested in coating, machining or micro molding, or nanomaterials, applications, or metrology, this conference includes the academic research and practical product development information you need.

April 23-25, 2012: INDIANA: Walk world-class manufacturing operations at the Industry Week Best Plants Conference. You may not consider Indianapolis a hotbed of leading-edge manufacturers, but perhaps you should.

At Your Convenience:

Learn about the seven 2011 AME Manufacturing Excellence Award Recipient companies by visiting the AME YouTube channel. An easy way to benchmark.

Acumed, LLC
Aera Energy LLC - Development
Autoliv
IEC Electronics - Newark
Medtronic Spinal & Biologics - Warsaw
Milliken Performance Solutions
Raytheon SAS Advanced Product Center

Fulcrum Senior Executive Forums

At the request of business owners and operations executives, Fulcrum ConsultingWorks, Inc. moderates peer group conversations on topics of interest. The 15 Forums held to date addressed issues ranging from metrics, planning for disaster, and creating organizational alignment to security, doing business with large companies, and managing benefits costs. to discuss hosting a forum on a topic of importance to you.