 Levinson Productivity
Systems, P.C.William A. Levinson, P.E. Principal 570-824-1986  |
|
Interactive software
Books
Free Downloads: PowerPoint presentations
Free Downloads: software (Visual Basic)
Lean Bumper Stickers, Coffee Mugs, and More
PowerPoint Training Packages
- Available Packages
- Design of Experiments: Applications and Basic Principles
- Lean Enterprise: A Comprehensive Overview
- ISO 9000: Use it proactively to drive continuous improvement and cost reduction
- The Theory of Constraints and Synchronous Flow Manufacturing
- Acceptance Sampling
- Ordering: (1) Make checks payable to Levinson Productivity Systems,
P.C. Mail to
6 Lexington Court, Wilkes-Barre PA 18702. Inquiries, TheBoss "at"
ct-yankee.com or 570-824-1986 (2) Order via PayPal E-commerce using the buttons AND E-mail me (TheBoss "at" ct-yankee.com). Be sure to include your shipping address! When ordering, please indicate if
you need
an older version of PowerPoint, and also if the item is to be shipped
to
a Pennsylvania address for sales tax purposes.
- LICENSING: You may use one copy (electronic or overhead
transparency;
you can have one of each as long as both are not in use simultaneously)
to give presentations for in-house training or for a fee. You may also
make unlimited
hard copies of the PowerPoint notes pages (which contain additional information and references to go with the presentation) for distribution to
your
audiences as handouts.
- No changes may be made in the slides that come with the presentation. You may insert your own slides into the presentation (e.g. to use examples from your own factory, a highly-recommended practice) as long as you identify them as your own work and not that of Levinson Productivity Systems.
- Disk guarantee: Files are burned onto a CD using Roxio software. Experience is that
these disks work in most computers. If it does not work in
yours, your money will be refunded if a workable copy cannot be
provided. The Theory of Constraints presentation and Design of Experiments presentation are also small enough
(<3 Mb) to send as E-mail attachments. NEW (July 2004) Due to a customer request, the files can now be obtained by direct download.
If you have a high-speed connection, I can provide a link upon receipt
of payment that will allow you to download the presentation you have
purchased. (NOTE: This is a manual process and PayPal does NOT provide you with a link from which you can do the download.
I have to give you a link to a private directory so you can download
the file. Also, please select "Shipping is required (Please enter
address below.)" when you order by PayPal.)
| Design of Experiments: Applications and Basic Principles 184 PowerPoint slides (including Notes pages for handouts) $85.00. Download package description as a Word document Audience: This day-long Design of Experiments workshop is designed primarily for manufacturing engineers, managers, and technicians. There are no statistics prerequisites; the material assumes knowledge of freshman college mathematics only. This overview covers material that participants may encounter in the ASQ certification examination for quality engineering. The package includes PowerPoint Notes pages for distribution to participants. The license allows the user to make unlimited copies of these pages for use in training activities. What your participants will learn: Upon completing this course, your audience will understand: (1) Why Design of Experiments is useful for improving processes (2) System models, factors, and levels (3) The all-important concept of hypothesis testing (which also is the foundation of Statistical Process Control) (4) How to plan and design an experiment: randomization, blocking, and replication (5) How to interpret test statistics (6) Types of experiments and when they are used (7) How to analyze residuals to see if the experimental model was valid (8) Linear regression (9) Nonparametric methods The course is not a substitute for the kind of in-depth knowledge and problem-solving experience that can only be acquired through college coursework or the equivalent. Since DOE is used far too infrequently in most industrial settings and many (if not most) people don't understand its merits or what the results are telling them, the course will have accomplished its mission if it equips the attendee to at least understand what DOE is, when it is used, and what kind of results it delivers. The material on hypothesis testing should make it far easier for the attendee to succeed in college coursework or self-study of industrial statistics.
|
Lean Enterprise: A Comprehensive Overview 249 PowerPoint slides including outline/contents, four animations (3 motion efficiency, 1 poka-yoke), and backup slides for the animations if the presentation is given from transparencies. $95.00 (includes shipping and handling). Download package description as a Word document. Audience: This day-long overview of lean enterprise is designed primarily for manufacturing engineers, supervisors, foremen, and shop personnel. What your participants will learn: Participants will learn the basic foundation of lean enterprise (recognition and elimination of all forms of waste in the supply chain) as well as its true origin: Henry Ford's automobile plants and their supply chain. How your audience will use the knowledge: Upon completing this course, your audience should have learned and internalized the ability to recognize most forms of waste on sight. Participants will no longer take waste (friction, muda) for granted or accept it as a built-in part of the job that they should "live with" or "work around." Front-line production workers should be using the new knowledge to identify waste in their jobs and offer ideas for improvement.
|
What your participants will learn: This 4-5 hour overview of ISO 9000 is designed primarily for
manufacturing engineers, supervisors, foremen, and shop personnel. This course
goes beyond a mere technical overview of the standard by explaining how its
proper use is profitable, and it emphasizes the front-line worker's role in using ISO 9000 to improve the system in
which he or she works. This makes ISO 9000 the organization's servant instead
of its master, and a money-saver instead of a costly annoyance. o ISO 9000 is an international standard for quality management systems (QMSs) o ISO 9000 is a moneymaker (as opposed to a costly annoyance) if used properly. o ISO 9000:2000 is process-oriented 2. The Front-line worker's role in ISO 9000 o The organization must empower the front-line worker through appropriate training and infrastructure (e.g. the ISO 9000 hiyari or scare report). 3. Friction: the Hidden Enemy o This also is known as muda or waste. It is often overlooked because people become used to working around it. o ISO 9000 as a "proactive servant" that eliminates friction, instead of a "reactive master" to which the organization responds only when a required internal or third-party audit finds a problem. 4. Provisions and Requirements o How it works: "Say what you do, and do what you say." o Document hierarchy 5. Management Responsibility (ISO 9000:2000 section 5) 6. Resource Management (6) 7. Product Realization (7) 8. Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement (8) The course includes an in-depth discussion of closed-loop corrective action and closed-loop proactive action. |
The Theory of Constraints and Synchronous Flow Manufacturing 186 PowerPoint slides (including Notes pages for handouts) $95.00 Download package description as a Word document. Audience: This day-long Theory of Constraints workshop is designed primarily for manufacturing engineers, supervisors, foremen, and managers. What your participants will learn: The package includes PowerPoint Notes pages for distribution to participants. The license allows the user to make unlimited copies of these pages for use in training activities. Upon completing this course, your audience will understand: (1) The Theory of Constraints and the concept of the capacity-constraining resource (CCR) (2) TOC performance measurements, and also the potentially-dysfunctional effects of traditional cost accounting systems (3) Drum-Buffer-Rope production control (4) Techniques for elevating the constraint (5) Techniques for reducing variation in processing and material transfer times, which allows smaller buffers and possibly higher utilization
|
| Acceptance Sampling 172 PowerPoint slides (including Notes pages for handouts), $85.00 What your participants will learn: This 4-6 hour acceptance sampling course is designed primarily for quality engineers, managers, technicians, and inspectors. The course teaches not only the operation of ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 (sampling by attributes, formerly MIL-STD 105) and ANSI/ASQ Z1.9 (sampling by variables, formerly MIL-STD 414) but also the principles behind these standards. The need to verify distribution normality for ANSI/ASQ Z1.9 cannot be overemphasized but this is often overlooked in practice. Download package description as a Word document.
|
Pennsylvania
customers receive a 5.66% discount on the base price so that, when PA
sales tax is added, the final price is the same as for non-PA sales.
Your prices are as follows (if you need to break it down for accounting
purposes). Lean Enterprise, Theory of Constraints: $89.62 + $5.37 sales tax ISO 9000, DOE, Acceptance sampling: $80.19 + $4.81 sales tax Control chart simulator: $47.17 + $2.83 sales tax |
Interactive Software
Statistical Process Control Chart Simulator (more details here) $50.00
This interactive training program is designed to teach production workers how to read and interpret statistical process control (SPC) charts in an hour or even less. It achieves this through animated figures that relate something familiar (like a target) to the control charts. It also incorporates an animated histogram (like the popular quincunx classroom tool) that shows the distribution as it is being simulated.
Visual Basic program (setup.exe with .CAB file) on CD-ROM. Can also be delivered by download or even E-mail if necessary. Licensing and disk guarantee are the same as for the PowerPoint presentations. $50.00 (includes shipping and handling within the U.S.)Books
- Levinson, 2002. Henry Ford's Lean Vision, (order from Productivity Press Stock #: HFLV Price: $ 39.95)
- Corrected index (3 December 2002)
- Levinson and Rerick, 2002. Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach (order from ASQ Quality Press)
- Levinson, 2007. Beyond the Theory of Contraints: How to Eliminate Variation and Maximize Capacity (order from CRC Press Online or Amazon.com)
Licensing and Terms of use: Permission is given to download and use these presentations, provided that no changes are made in them and that they are not shown for a fee (other than a usual dinner meeting fee for, as an example, a monthly ASQ, APICS, or SME meeting). In addition, clip art in the presentations is generally licensed for use in a presentation or book but not for redistribution as clip art. This means you can show the PowerPoint slide or print and distribute hard copies of the slide that contains it but you cannot copy the image and use it by itself. You may make and distribute unlimited copies of the notes pages as long as no changes are made.
| Lean Manufacturing and Lean Enterprise Lean Enterprise: Made in the USA. ( ~2.3 Mb) Presentation for Boeing lean manufacturing conference (April 8-9) and APICS meeting (May 2003). It shows the American origins of the lean enterprise, including contributions by Benjamin Franklin, Frank Gilbreth, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Henry Ford. Includes three animations that should work if the presentation is given from a laptop PC, and backup slides for presentation from overhead transparencies. Animation examples |
Health Care Downloadable PowerPoint presentation (about 2Mb) on why insurers, auto makers, Medicare, and Medicaid should require the health care providers with which they do business to register to ISO 9000 (or its IWA-1 counterpart). |
| Worker Empowerment Worker Empowerment and The Science of Victory (120Kb) Presentation for the Northeast PA section of APICS, March 9 2005 The famous Russian marshal Aleksandr V. Suvorov insisted that soldiers exercise judgment, initiative, and self-directed teamwork in an era when they were expected to behave like robots and do only what they were told— a philosophy embraced by Frederick the Great, of whom Suvorov would have doubtlessly made mincemeat. Suvorov also participated in training recruits instead of delegating this job to noncommissioned officers. Today, upper management's personal participation in employee training (or any other initiative) shows everyone in the organization that the activity is not just another program-of-the-month. |
How to print Notes pages with Powerpoint:
|
Free Downloads: Visual Basic Programs
Licensing and Terms of use: Permission is given to download these programs, provided that no changes are made in them and that they are not shown for a fee (other than a usual dinner meeting fee for, as an example, a monthly ASQ, APICS, or SME meeting). Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with this program is a full refund of the purchase price. :-)
Download the indicated files (right-click and select "save link target as" in Netscape Communicator), install them in the desired directory, and run setup.exe.
| Theory of Constraints matchsticks-and-dice simulation UPDATED September 18 2005 using Visual Basic Service Pack 6 |
Multiple Attribute Control Chart (Excel Spreadsheet, 25Kb)
|
Bumper stickers, coffee mugs, and more.
Products available from CafePress.com and Zazzle.com
|
Lean Manufacturing Bumper Sticker (10" by 3") $3.99
 Coffee Mug: "The Boss" figure created with Poser 5 and Gothic Armor for Don from Valendar (click here for his Renderosity online store). Quote from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: "I could make anything a body wanted... and if there wasn't any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could invent one." |
Lean Manufacturing/ Yankee Ingenuity Coffee Mug $12.99
  |
Wall Clock for the Theory of Constraints $13.99 Benjamin
Franklin and Henry Ford (who cited Franklin as an influence on his
thinking) remind your visitors that time lost at the constraint is lost
forever. The Franklin quote is from The Way to Wealth and the Ford quote is from Ford Ideals (1922, in the public domain due to age). |
Buttons and Magnets: $1.75, 10 for $15.00, 100 for $89.50 2.25 inch diameter, red and blue lettering on white background.Available from Zazzle.com |
 It
is a basic lean manufacturing principle that enormous waste hides in
plain sight. Nothing is done about it because people can "live with"
and "work around." Let General Curtis LeMay remind your employees
not to live with the same problems and inefficiencies every day. (3" by
5" sticker, $3.49) |