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Course/Event Schedule & Registration

Auburn Technical Assistance Center offers new and innovative classes and workshops throughout the year. Check here for additions and updates.
Questions about classes or prices: Contact Mitch Emmons, (334) 844-3881, emmonmb@auburn.edu
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All Classes and Events can offer direct registration online. Simply click the link above and fill out the required information. Or contact us directly at: 334-844-4659, or, toll-free at 1.800.446.0386. Your company will be invoiced or you can pay by credit card (Visa or Master Card only). NOTICE: No cancellations or refunds are allowed. Substitutions or changing to another event/course offering are permitted.
Remaining 2008 Open Enrollment Events
Lean Accounting - Accounting for a Lean Enterprise
DATES: July 22-24, 2008 Continuing Education Credit Applies to this Course	DESCRIPTION: Lean Accounting - Accounting for a Lean Enterprise Cost: $900/seat Learn lean costing methods that provide more accurate and simpler information Learn how costs can be calculated and decisions can be made from value stream processes Learn how lean organizations achieve well-planned and effective operation Learn how to develop a practical approach to lean accounting This course is designed to assist companies in aligning their lean production system strategies with the organization’s accounting and financial strategies. This three-day seminar will teach you – using hands-on and classroom training -- how to make appropriate changes in your accounting systems to support an overall transformation to a lean enterprise. This course is appropriate for accounting managers, operations managers, finance managers, and others involved in the organization’s financial management processes.	LOCATION: Hampton Inn, Pensacola Beach, FL REGISTRATION STILL OPEN Click here to Register for Workshop Click Here for Lodging Registration Information
Montgomery, AL
Six Sigma Green Belt -Open Enrollment Cost: $2,600/seat
DATES: July 14-18; August 4-8, 2008	DESCRIPTION: As it has in of some of the world’s most successful manufacturing, healthcare, and financial organizations, the proven methodology of Six Sigma can increase the efficiency and consistency of your processes to 99.9997% perfection. To begin your Six Sigma implementation, register now for ATAC's Six Sigma Green Belt course. Green Belt Curriculum: • Organizational Value of Six Sigma • Intro to Minitab • Benchmarking • Project Planning • Process Mapping • 7 Quality Tools • Basic Probability Concepts • Basic Statistics • Process Capability • Gage R+R • Failure Mode Effect Analysis • Inferential Statistics • Confidence Intervals • Hypothesis Testing • Intro to Analysis of Variance • Intro to Design of Experiments • Lean Enterprise	LOCATION: Hyundai Automotive Mfg. Plant, Hyundai Training Center, Montgomery, AL Click here to register
Auburn, AL
TWI (Training Within Industry) -Open Enrollment Click Here for TWI Web Site & More Information Click Here for pdf file of Course Brochure
DATES: Aug. 18-22, 2008	DESCRIPTION: TWI includes three modules of training that teach basic skills to help supervisors and other employees function successfully in a learning organization. TWI contains the basic skills that will help enable supervisors and other employees to make the transition from hierarchical "command & control" organizations to flatter, team oriented organizations. Each TWI course module is structured as five two-hour sessions with 8 - 10 trainees. Job Methods (JM): JM teaches employees how to improve the way jobs are done. The aim of the program is to help produce greater quantities of quality products in less time by making the best use of the manpower, machines, and materials now available. Session time 7 - 10 a.m. each day. Job Instruction (JI): The objective of the course is to train employees how to teach someone a job or method. The method emphasizes preparing the operator to learn, giving a proper demonstration while identifying the Important Steps and the Key Points of the job, having the operator perform a trial run, and tapering off coaching while continuing to follow up. Session time 11 a.m. -1 p.m. each day. Job Relations (JR): This course teaches employees how to understand people on all levels and deals with the issues of motivation and problem solving. The course gives employees foundations for developing and maintaining good relations in order to prevent problems from arising. However, when problems do arise, it teaches how to get the facts, weigh and decide, take action, and check results. Session time 2 - 4 p.m. each day.	LOCATION: Auburn University, Third Floor Seminar Room #302, Lowder Business Building Cost: $995.00 - One TWI Module of your choice. $1,690 - Two TWI Modules of your choice. $2,000 - All three TWI Modules. Click here to Register
LEAN Certificate Series Cost: $1,295/seat (Download PDF Course Brochure) Click here to Register
DATES: October 13-17, 2008	DESCRIPTION: Lean Certificate Series	LOCATION: National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Auburn, AL Map to Facility
October 13-17, 2008	Lean 101	National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Auburn, AL Map to Facility
October 13-17, 2008	Value Stream Mapping & 5s Visual Systems	National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Auburn, AL Map to Facility
October 13-17, 2008	Total Productive Maintenance / Quick Change Over	National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Auburn, AL Map to Facility
October 13-17, 2008	Kanban/Pull Systems & Cellular Flow	National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Auburn, AL Map to Facility
October 13-17, 2008	Sustaining Lean	National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) Auburn, AL Map to Facility

Questions & Assistance

Contact: Mitch Emmons
Sr. Outreach Associate
(334) 844-3881 (office direct)
(334) 524-2102 (cell)
emmonmb@auburn.edu

ATAC Affiliations

		EDA University Center