Supply Chain

Continuous Improvements Using Lean Manufacturing

Increase productivity, enhance product quality, and improve your company’s profitability. From working on the plant floor side by side with your team for sustainable results to classroom training, NWIRC can support you with training, coaching, and developing a continuous improvement plan.

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Market Scouting

Provides insights related to market feasibility and revenue potential by compiling competitive research.

Market Scouting

Provides insights related to market feasibility and revenue potential by compiling competitive research.

Market Scouting

Provides insights related to market feasibility and revenue potential by compiling competitive research.

Market Scouting

Provides insights related to market feasibility and revenue potential by compiling competitive research.

Voice of Customer Research

Get direct customer feedback about the wants and needs of the marketplace to inform strategic changes for driving top-line growth.

Competitive Benchmarking

Competitive analysis to help business leaders understand the overall degree of competition within an industry, including barriers to entry, the intensity of competition, estimated market size, and the trends impacting an overall business cycle.

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Complete this form or contact Tara Lawrence to request a member of the Manufacturing Dream Team to visit your classroom, career day, special event, or to request a tour.

Communications & Partnerships Advisor

Cell: (814) 795-9425
tlawrence@nwirc.org

LEAN TRANSFORMATION

LEAN TOGETHER

Maximizing the productivity of your team may be more difficult than ever before. Our Lean Together programs help your company create a culture of continuous improvement where everyone is working together, moving in the same direction, and making small improvements everyday! Through nine, 3-hour, monthly sessions – participants study and implement concepts from the book, 2 Second Lean, by Paul Akers during classroom discussion and facility tours.

New Cohort Begins August 2024

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“I cannot say enough good things about NWIRC’s leadership training and Lisa Pustelak’s training skills!! She was great and the training was very educational. She delivered it in a way that everyone who attended could relate. We have seen growth in our leaders who have attended, and we are hosting another round of the series starting in May! Lisa is a wonderful trainer!”

Haley Mahoney, Advantage Sales and Supply

Human Resources Administrator

“I cannot say enough good things about NWIRC’s leadership training and Lisa Pustelak’s training skills!! She was great and the training was very educational. She delivered it in a way that everyone who attended could relate. We have seen growth in our leaders who have attended, and we are hosting another round of the series starting in May! Lisa is a wonderful trainer!”

Haley Mahoney, Advantage Sales and Supply 2

Human Resources Administrator

“I cannot say enough good things about NWIRC’s leadership training and Lisa Pustelak’s training skills!! She was great and the training was very educational. She delivered it in a way that everyone who attended could relate. We have seen growth in our leaders who have attended, and we are hosting another round of the series starting in May! Lisa is a wonderful trainer!”

Haley Mahoney, Advantage Sales and Supply 3

Human Resources Administrator

“I cannot say enough good things about NWIRC’s leadership training and Lisa Pustelak’s training skills!! She was great and the training was very educational. She delivered it in a way that everyone who attended could relate. We have seen growth in our leaders who have attended, and we are hosting another round of the series starting in May! Lisa is a wonderful trainer!”

Haley Mahoney, Advantage Sales and Supply 4

Human Resources Administrator

LEAN MANUFACTURING RESULTS

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Better Baked Foods: Business Continuity with Support of Student-Run Manufacturing Enterprise

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