Public Workshops (one and two-day)
Multi-week Certificate Courses
Plant Tours (for GBMP members only)
Manufacturing Roundtable Speaker Series
Conferences

To register for a GBMP event, please complete the event registration form online or call GBMP at 617-287-7630. Please also give us a call if your company would like to host a GBMP public workshop, multi-week certificate course or plant tour.

In case an event can not be held due to inclement weather or other reasons, GBMP will post this information on this website on the event's web page. Please always check the GBMP website for an event's status to check for last minute changes.

Public Workshops (one and two-day)

GBMP Public Workshops are specially designed one or two-day training opportunities which reflect our philosophy that the process of acquiring knowledge is best done through tacit learning. Therefore almost all GBMP training events take place at a member or client facility and divide the day between classroom learning and shop-floor implementation of concepts learned in the classroom. (Note: some workshops have prerequisite reading or coursework. Please see individual event description for details.)

04/01/10 Bronze Lean Certification: 2-day Review & Exam at Bemis Associates Inc. Shirley, MA
04/05/10 TPM: 5-day Focused Intensive (or 2-day Intro) at NP Medical Clinton, MA
04/29/10 Product Innovation Workshop at TBD
06/15/10 Lean Accounting for the Lean Enterprise at TBD

Multi-week Certificate Courses

GBMP offers Lean and Six Sigma certification courses several times throughout the year. These eight-week training modules take place at a member or client facility and divide the days between classroom learning and shop-floor implementation of concepts learned in the classroom. Attendees who complete these courses are awarded a certificate of achievement.

05/05/10 Six Sigma Green Belt Program at FLEXcon Industries Randolph, MA
09/07/10 Lean Certificate Program (Fall 2010) at Oncore Manufacturing Springfield, MA

Plant Tours (for GBMP members only)

These invaluable events allow companies who have successfully begun implementing Lean initiatives to showcase their results and enable participants to benchmark their own CI efforts. The fee for plant tours is $49 per attendee, limited to 2 spots per member company.

03/31/10 Plant Tour: Bemis Associates Inc. at Bemis Associates Inc. Shirley, MA
04/27/10 Plant Tour Plus: Woodmeister Master Builders at Woodmeister Corp Holden, MA
06/16/10 Plant Tour: Madico Window & Specialty Films at Madico Woburn, MA

Manufacturing Roundtable Speaker Series

Founded in 1979, the Manufacturing Roundtable Speaker Series is a monthly breakfast meeting with a notable speaker and is an excellent networking opportunity for participating companies.

03/11/10 Western Mass Lean Networking Group*
04/01/10 Roundtable: Breaking Through SW Confusion
04/08/10 Western Mass Lean Networking Group*
05/06/10 Roundtable: Safety & Sustainability

Conferences

05/17/10 The National Shingo Prize Annual Conference at Salt Lake City, Utah
05/25/10 EASTEC 2010
10/19/10 Save the Date: 2010 Northeast Shingo Conference

To register for a GBMP event, please complete the event registration form online or call GBMP at 617-287-7737 or 617-287-7630. Please also give us a call if your company would like to host a GBMP public workshop, multi-week certificate course or plant tour.