(We know time is precious, that's why we're keeping this short!)
Join Matt Hobson-Rohrer and Master Black Belt Steve Napier of MMTC and invest 30 minutes (just 2% of your day!) to discover:
How successful companies make time to improve
How simulation can help you improve performance
Tricks to use to get buy-in from others for your project
The full recording of the session and slides from each presenter are below.
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Agenda
Item Time
Welcome and Introduction 5 minutes
Finding time and justifying 10 minutes
Lean Six Sigma and simulation 15 minutes
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• 26 years simulation
• Application areas
– Manufacturing
– Material Handling
– Scheduling
• Education - Utah
– Engineering - 1983
– Business - 2005
• Social Media
– LinkedIn and
– Twitter - @Matt_SIMUL8
Matt Hobson-Rohrer
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• Process improvement at your firm?
Participant Polls
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It’s worth it
• Google
– 20% time to work on ideas
– Adsense = $50+ Billion
• Toyota
– Pays overtime to work on approved projects
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As Dr. Deming put it
• “Funny how we don’t have the time to
improve, but we have plenty of time to
perform work inefficiently and to resolve
the same problems over and over”
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Finding the Time
• Assess your activities
– Value add to organization
• Get management support
– Or go rogue?
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Step 3
• Pick an application
– “Goldilocks” it
– For a predictive model
• Tend toward bigger
– Test for 5 Whys
• Example
– We need to build a predictive model of process “A”
– Why?
» Introducing two new products next month
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Steve Napier
Over 20 years of software and hardware-in-
the-loop simulation
Full motion flight simulator
Automotive vehicle testing
Hardware/software product development
Current Applications – Lean Six Sigma
consulting, Process Improvement
BS/MS Engineering
Plymouth, Michigan
Simulation is a loaded word – with so many different meanings.
For history – LinkedIn search “Company Name simulation”
http://www.simul8.com/breakdownswebinar - With Brian Harrington of Ford Motor Company http://simul8healthcare.com/online-workshop/ - With Fiona Lindsay and Brittany HagedornSIMUL8 2014 – Page tbc, but will be mailer nearer the time with info. Kenny, Sander and Glenn to present. All at 4pm Eastern. To sign up check out our blog/twitter etc for more details.
Screenshots (Clockwise from top left): Queue Visualization, Resource Schedule, VL Editor UpdateQueue visualization – each square is a work item, and each shade is a label valueRibbon image update – the ribbon images have been enhanced to be more intuitive and stand outImage sets – users can select a set of images to represent the states of an activitySchedule by time of day:ArrivalsResourcesTravel times – need an example or descriptionVL UIBetter readability – color control and fontFolders to organize your logic blocksVL commands Get longest available resource time Find resource from pool Set resource pool search mode (circulate/priority/longest)