Location
This event was rescheduled from August 23, 2023
The in-person portion of this event is for St. Louis consortia members ONLY and is at CAPACITY!
Virtual attendance is still available/open for registration.
Cosmos Corporation invites you to attend a plant tour of their facility. This hybrid tour will offer in-person attendance and a virtual Zoom option. The tour will highlight multiple areas of continuous improvement at Cosmos, including:
- Gemba walk
- Visual management
- Receiving / inbound freight scheduling
- Cell design and line balancing
- Business process excellence in NPD
- Utilizing technology for project management, dashboards, and collaboration
Cosmos Corporation is a recognized leader in natural health, wellness, and care products. From its beginning in 1980, it has been family-owned and operated in the Midwest, with headquarters today in Saint Peters, Missouri. Founded by a barber turned beauty products distributor, it's legacy in human haircare has since expanded to address consumer needs in personal care, pet health and wellness products, and household cleaning solutions under the Texture Theory™, TropiClean®, Naturél Promise®, and Urine Off® brands. Cosmos was established, with a mission, to provide for people experiencing poverty around the globe. Since the beginning, it has supported its founder’s call to meet essential needs like food, shelter, and education for underserved communities. From its humble roots, Cosmos has grown into a global manufacturer with the capacity to make an even greater impact by giving back to programs that serve those in need abroad and closer to home. www.cosmoscorp.com
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- 9:15 a.m. - Arrival and check-in
- 9:30 a.m. - Intro - agenda and GMP
- 9:50 a.m. - Tour (gemba walk, receiving scheduling, manufacturing design, new product development
- 11:20 a.m. - Q&A
- 11:45 a.m. Cosmos minute - company-wide collaboration
- 12 p.m. - Closing
- 12:15 p.m. - Event adjourns
- Design tools
- Layout for flow
- Leader standard work
- Management system reporting
- Quality
- Raw materials and waste reduction
- Anyone on a CI journey
- Operations teams
- Business teams
- CI teams
- HR teams
- Production teams
- Leadership teams
- Assembly teams
We strive to host events that are inclusive and accessible to everyone to fully participate and engage. Please email events@ame.org if you have any questions.
If you are not already a member of AME, we invite you to join at this time. Membership benefits include complimentary and discounted event registrations throughout the entire year. To learn more about membership benefits, please visit here.
By registering for this event, I hereby acknowledge and agree that AME or its agents may take photographs of me during events and may use those photographs for AME’s purposes, including but not limited to news and promotional purposes, without further compensation to me.
Virtual attendees: To fully participate in any AME virtual events, a high-speed internet connection, speaker/headphones, microphone, and webcam are needed. While not required, you will have a better online experience if you do not use wireless internet service. A wired/ethernet connection will have a stronger signal than wireless. Live captioning will be available for virtual portions of this event. Make sure you download the Zoom Client for Meetings desktop application for the best experience. Do not use the version available through your web browser as it has limited features. https://zoom.us/download.
Cancelation policy: This event may be canceled by AME for any reason. AME is not responsible for incidental costs incurred by registrants. For paid events, registration fee less a $20 administration fee will be refunded up to one week before the event. Substitutions may be made up to three days prior to the start of the event.
