Location
Visit the O.C. Tanner world headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah for this full-day workshop on how to efficiently produce one item at a time. See how the company created a lean enterprise grounded in one-piece flow, with concurrent improvements in quality, cost, and delivery. The workshop explores the company’s lean journey to success, including policy deployment, order fulfillment systems, right-sized equipment, problem-solving, TWI, visual management, logistics, and employee engagement.
- Hear from O.C. Tanner leaders from operations, lean enterprise development, supply chain, production, and others
- Learn best practices to cost effectively produce one item at a time
- Discover all of the processes necessary to achieve lean enterprise goals
- Feel a sense of continuous improvement culture and systems that support it
- Understand policy-driven manufacturing and order fulfillment systems
- See how workplace culture and recognition play a role in business results
- Enjoy a lunch prepared by O.C. Tanner’s award-winning chef
O.C. Tanner helps people thrive at work. The O.C. Tanner company was founded in 1927 by Obert C. Tanner, a professor of philosophy who saw the value of recognizing people with tangible, lasting awards. More than 90 years later, O.C. Tanner is not only among the top two percent best lean enterprises in North America, but is a recognized leader in one-piece flow production (rings, emblems, trophies, etc.)
Awards & Recognitions
- 2016 AME Excellence Award recipient
- 2021 100 Best Companies to Work For®, Great Place to Work® and Fortune
- 2021 Leader in Rewards and Recognition Solutions
- PEAK Matrix® Assessment, Everest Group
- The Shingo Prize
- Ernst & Young Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award
- Official Supplier of the 2002 Olympic Games meda
- 7:30 a.m. Welcome and light breakfast
- 8 a.m. Introduction to O.C. Tanner’s business/O.C. Tanner’s lean story
- 8:15 a.m. Daily production balancing, production board
- 8:30 a.m. Observe value stream huddle cascade
- 9 a.m. Break
- 9:15 a.m. Strategy deployment
- 9:45 a.m. Tours / Go and see (production teams, purchasing, supplies, housekeeping, TWI, engineering)
- 12 p.m. Lunch prepared by O.C. Tanner’s award-winning chef
- 12:45 p.m. Reflections
- 1 p.m. Reduce training time and defects with TWI instruction
- 2 p.m. Front line panel or pay system
- 2:45 p.m. Break
- 3 p.m. Kamishibai card discussion
- 3:45 p.m. Discussion/Reflections
AME standard requirements for tour participants are: photo ID, leather-like closed-toe shoes; no high heels; long or short-sleeved shirt/blouse and long pants)
OC Tanner requirements in addition to AME: safety glasses provded on site to participants
- Operations executives
- Lean executives
- Order fulfillment executives
- Supply chain executives
- Engineering managers
- Quality system managers
- Logistics managers
- Benchmarking personnel
- Employee development managers
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