The Manufacturing Executive Institute's 3rd Thursday- "Operations Improvements" Monthly Webinars are an ongoing series of instructor-led LIVE 1-hour webcast programs. These programs are produced and broadcast from MEI's webinar studio ("Radio MEI") located in Corona, California. All programs in this series are broadcast over the internet on the 3rd Thursday of every month and all are FREE!
Each monthly webinar in the "Operations Improvements" series addresses one or more SPECIFIC issues facing OPERATIONS professionals in the manufacturing and distribution industries. Participants will learn how to solve difficult operations issues and learn how to implement solutions to perplexing problems... all from the comfort of their office or home computer!
To provide a range of topics that are useful to all professionals working in the various disciplines of operations management, MEI's 3rd Thursday - "Operations Improvements" Monthly Webinars are divided into 3 "themed" categories:
- Supply Chain topics are presented 4 times per year. Topic areas we explore include presentations on sales & operations planning, master planning, materials planning, materials & factory scheduling, procurement processes and management, warehouse management, inventory management & control, logistics planning & execution, and distribution management.
- Production Management topics are presented 4 times per year. Topic areas we explore include presentations on production methods, production execution, manufacturing technologies, in-process quality management, queue control, advanced manufacturing techniques, factory design and production scale-up methods.
- Cost Management topics are presented 4 times per year. Topic areas we explore include presentations on basic cost accounting elements, Activity Based Cost Accounting, Process Cost Accounting, cost control, cost reduction, predictive cost modeling, absorption issues; efficiency, utilization, yield & productivity measures; progressive variance analysis, target costing and low cost leadership issues.
Click here to view a list of upcoming 3rd Thursday "Operations Improvements" FREE webinars.
Additional facts about the Manufacturing Executive Institute's 3rd Thursday- "Operations Improvements" Monthly Webinar Series include:
- All webinars in this series are FREE!
- Advance registration is required as space is limited in these webcast programs.
- All 3rd Thursday- "Operations Improvements" Monthly Webinars begin at 10:00 AM (PST) and conclude at 11:00 AM (PST).
- Participants can submit questions during these live webinars. The instructor will allow approximately 10 -15 minutes at the conclusion of each program to answer these questions.