• A Quick-Start Guide to Lean - Free Seminar

• A free introductory lean seminar presenting the quick-start methods for the workplace with a focus on improving process to deliver performance outcomes. This seminar will help managers and supervisors identify high-value efforts providing workplace predictability and efficiency.

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• Fee: $0.00

• Instructor: Eric Gatmaitan

  Capacity Remaining: 24

• Dates: 4/16/2019 - 4/16/2019

  Times: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: Tu

• Building: KVCC Groves Campus

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• This will be a FREE offering of A Quick-Start Guide to Lean

• Simple Ways to Start Using Barcode Scanning

• This two-hour FREE SEMINAR will delve into the usefulness and value that barcode scanning can have at your organization. Designed for office and manufacturing environments, participants will be introduced to a simple implementation and use of barcode scanning. Enroll today in this FREE SEMINAR to learn how you can get started with barcode scanning for less than $50 and the efficiency it can provide!

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• Fee: $0.00

• Instructor: Eric Gatmaitan

  Capacity Remaining: 30

• Dates: 5/8/2019 - 5/8/2019

  Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: W

• Building: KVCC Groves Campus

  Room: A1060

• Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

• This course provides the necessary knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), its application, and meaning. It is a must for anyone who will be required to use or understand shop prints and engineering drawings. Skill development will include basic recognition of geometric tolerancing symbols, understanding and application of all fourteen geometric tolerances, and datum reference frame development.

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• Fee: $900.00

• Instructor: Timothy Daniel

  Capacity Remaining: 17

• Dates: 7/30/2019 - 8/13/2019

  Times: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

• Sessions: 3

  Days: Tu

• Building: KVCC Groves Campus

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• Root Cause Analysis - 8D Problem Solving

• This 8-hour program is designed to cultivate analytical problem-solving thinking and the development skills to apply the structured 8-D Corrective Action approach at the individual and team level. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
  Identify the benefits of the team approach to problem solving
  Discuss the use of problem solving tools (e.g., Fishbone diagrams, why-why analysis)
  Follow the structured problem solving process utilizing the 7-D and 8-D problem solving process
  Determine the usefulness of statistical tools (Gage R&R, Process Capability Studies, Design of Experiments) for investigation and corrective action verification
  Report on the findings from their team's investigative research and corrective actions
  
  Companies are encouraged to send teams of co-workers to address an identified company problem. Participants will be given the problem solving tools and processes to implement at their site. Follow-up sessions can be scheduled to assure desired outcomes are achieved.

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• Fee: $300.00

• Instructor: Timothy Daniel

  Capacity Remaining: 8

• Dates: 4/18/2019 - 4/18/2019

  Times: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: Th

• Building: KVCC Groves Campus

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• Reading Industrial Blueprints 8 Hour Program-Delivered at YOUR Business

• Fee:  $2,700.00
• This program is designed for individuals with no drafting background. Participants will learn drafting and blueprint reading procedures, alphabet of lines, auxiliary views, assembly drawings, title blocks, drawing changes and standard symbols. Emphasis is placed on actual industrial conditions and applications. This 8 hour program can be delivered onsite at your business for up to 30 people utilizing your prints as a part of the program. Businesses more than 30 miles from the Kalamazoo Valley Groves Center will be asked to compensate for instructor mileage at $.545 per mile.

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To request scheduling options or for pricIng for a smaller group, please contact Taylor Smith at tsmith2@kvcc.edu or 269-353-1275.

• Instructor:  Timothy Daniel

• Reading Industrial Blueprints with Intro to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)-Delivered at YOUR Business

• Fee:  $3,500.00
• This program is designed for individuals with no drafting background. Participants will learn drafting and blueprint reading procedures, alphabet of lines, auxiliary views, assembly drawings, title blocks, drawing changes and standard symbols. Emphasis is placed on actual industrial conditions and applications. This 12 hour program can be delivered onsite at your business for up to 30 people utilizing your prints as a part of the program. Businesses more than 30 miles from the Kalamazoo Valley Groves Center will be asked to compensate for instructor mileage at $.545 per mile.

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To request scheduling options or for pricIng for a smaller group, please contact Taylor Smith at tsmith2@kvcc.edu or 269-353-1275.

• Instructor:  Timothy Daniel