Every year the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association hosts at least one workshop on lean manufacturing. Called LeanFab Workshop & Tours, these don't cover cookie-cutter lean, but instead improvement methodologies that work for high-mix, low-volume operations- in other words, most of U.S. manufacturing. This year's conference, led by our Improvement Insights columnist Dick Kallage and held in Columbus, Ohio, June 4-5, included tours of Ohio Laser, a fabricator in Plain City, Ohio, northwest of town; and of Emerson Network Power's Columbus fabrication plant, which makes Liebert-brand cooling units for corporate data center facilities.
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