Several SLC members and companies partnered with Dordt University and Northwest Iowa Manufactures to host 70 high school students for our second lean competition event today.  

 We use a Lean Car Factory Simulation Kit purchased from theleanman.com, these kits are...

What a great day!  Jess Orr, Mack & Ria Story, and all of our breakout presenters did a wonderful job sharing their material.   Theme of the day was respect for people!

Siouxland Lean Consortium along with Dordt College and Northwest Iowa Manufactures hosted a lean competition for high school students.  The SLC used a Lean Car Factory Simulation Kit purchased from theleanman.com, these kits are owned by the SLC and are available for m...

 Around 60 members attended the meeting at Pella. After introductions, Pella reviewed their lean journey, followed by a plant tour, then topic discussion on; Kaizen prep and sustainment, Cognitive Loading, and Team Member suggestions and ending with some Q&A.  Thank yo...

Thanks for all who attended our conference this year, it was a great day!  

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This was the first of its kind of event organized by the Siouxland Lean Consortium and we are calling it a great success!  Feedback from attendees has been great, and meeting Tracey and Ernie was a pleasure.  We wish all attendees success in implementing their specific...

Our first SLC lean coffee is in the books, our topic was problem solving.  We had a little over a dozen members join us at Northwestern in Orange City.  Civco will host our next Lean Coffee and we'll post details on that event as they firm up.

Dale Z. and the team did a great job hosting the meeting at Dordt.  They discussed how lean is incorporated into classroom training as well as utilized to improve administration process.  The SLC also announced that Dordt College will be our host for the 2018 Conferenc...

We again had a great annual conference, weather was definitely better than on our originally planned date back in Jan!  A big thank you to our keynote and session speakers for making this a great conference.