LA Times Plant Tour, Nov 17, 2011

November 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The Los Angeles APICS Chapter and IIE Los Angeles Chapter invite you to our final event of 2011 at the Los Angeles Times printing plant in downtown Los Angeles. This exciting event takes place on Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 2:15 to 4:30 p.m.   Free parking is available!

We look forward to seeing you as we learn about the Times’ cutting edge supply chain operation and its integral contribution to how our means of communication have evolved over time.

Key features of this tour:

  • The building holds the largest inventory of newsprint on the West Coast
  • Building is the size of a football field and 50′ high
  • There’s a rail spur that goes directly into the plant
  • Presses are 4 stories tall and produce 10 newspapers per second
  • One-half million gallons of ink and 1 million plates used each year
  • Advanced robotics deployed throughout the plant
  • The packaging system stacks papers onto pallets and delivers the pallets directly to delivery trucks

Funds from this plant tour will be used to support the 2012 APICS Southwest District Student Case Competition.

latimes2Event Info
Date: November 17, 2011
Tour Registration: 2:15 pm

Plant Tour: 2:45-3:45 pm
Networking Session: 3:45-4:30 pm
Location:
2000 E. 8th Street (near 8th and Alameda), Los Angeles, CA (map)
Parking:  Free on site!

Register and prepay on the Los Angeles APICS  website.

Register for this exciting event on their new website! APICS Los Angeles Chapter is proud to announce the creation of our new, updated APICS-compliant Los Angeles Chapter website.

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Cal-Poly SLO Wins IIE YouTube Contest!

November 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment

As you well know, many of our universities are challenged with bringing in talented high school seniors into the industrial engineering programs as freshman. In interviews with hundreds of college industrial engineering students and young professional IE’s, few had any knowledge of what an industrial engineering program was while they were in high school and most discovered our profession after their freshman year and switched majors into the IE program.

A few years ago, the IIE Industry Advisory Board (IAB) had an initiative which developed and sponsored a YouTube video contest targeted at high school students which was created by our university IIE chapters like yours. The result was very successful on several fronts with enhanced university chapter involvement, a touch point with our professional members to the universities and a communications tool that focused on high school students which has received thousands of YouTube hits from the various universities which have posted their video’s. The winners from the IIE National Conference held in Reno last year were:

2011 IIE IAB You-Tube Contest Winners:

First place was earned by Cal Poly SLO


volume is very low on this YouTube upload
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVb3O05Yh_A

Second place earned by Wichita State – Dream Job

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14B0oizvgg

 

Third Place was earned by University of Tennessee – Knoxville

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3xWAt_KO2w

 

In the region…University of San Diego on why you should consider becoming an Industrial Engineering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB5mTKsqvMs

Along with knowing that this video maybe the reason why a new student selected Industrial Engineering as their major, our IAB Members have personally donated prize funds which will be presented at the upcoming IIE National Conference in Orlando, FL at the student mixer. First place winner with a monetary prize fund planned at $1000 with additional monetary prize awards for 2nd and 3rd place winners.

 

On behalf of our IIE IAB leadership team, we thank you in advance for considering to support this initiative for our future IE’s, along with having a great time creating the video with your chapter.

 

IAB_You-TubeVideo@iienet.org

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Winner Selected for First PID Student Paper Competition

October 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Posted by Luis Armendariz

Your LA IIE Chapter is a proud donor sponsor of the 2011 1st International Student Project Competition and we made news:

Winner Selected for First PID Student Paper Competition!

Mengjie Liu, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., has been selected as the winner of the first ever PID Student Paper Competition. The winning paper is “Using Linear Programming to Minimize Cost for ACE Pharmacy.”

2011 was the first year of the PID student paper competition. The competition attracted entries from eight schools. The winner receives a cash award of $1,000, an additional $500 toward travel expenses plus the PID international trophy. The second and third place winners will receive certificates of recognition. Prize Sponsors: Hershey, DuPont and the IIE Los Angeles Chapter.

Congratulations to Mengjie Liu!

Note: Luis Armendariz, LA IIE Chapter 2012 President, will be chair of the 2nd Internationational Student Competition.

Read the complete article on IIE’s website: http://www.iienet2.org/Landing.aspx?id=887

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IIE IAB YouTube Winners Say THANK YOU

October 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The winner of our 2011 IIE IAB YouTube contest university, Cal Poly SLO, shared a big thank you to LA IIE Chapter for sponsoring their efforts – which resulted in a winning submission.  This comes by way of the IIE Industry Advisory Board…

Dear IIE Industry Advisory Board,

On behalf of the Cal Poly Institute of Industrial Engineers, we would like to thank you for your generous support for the IIE YouTube Contest this past year! Without donors like you, our club would not be able to enjoy the competitive spirit of this competition nor the opportunity to benefit schools and students beyond our own. Your donation aided our club in purchasing industry tours throughout California as well as reducing transportation costs for our members. We appreciate your kindness, and we are excited to plan even more activities which have been made possible through your support!

Sincerely,

Jason Carian
IIE President (2010-2011)

Alex Felker
IIE Vice President (2010-2011)

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IE’s in Demand

October 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This article in the Wall Street Journal posted Oct 2, 2011 quotes Monster.com to highlight that the demand for IE’s is growing!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576605421471180568.html

Quoted in the article:

Some occupations in which online ads over the past 120 days are up strongly from a year earlier:

  • Industrial engineers, up 28%.
  • First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers and repairers, up 25%.
  • Automotive specialty technicians, up 24%.
  • Mechanical engineers, up 21%.
  • Sales agents, financial services, up 20%.
  • Retail salespeople, up 19%.
  • Electrical engineers, up 17%.
  • Loan officers, up 16%.
  • Computer software engineers, applications, up 14%.
  • Accountants, up 12%.

Noticeably absent are health-care jobs. “Health-care occupations did not see the same declines as other occupations, so we might not see the same strong growth as we might with those that declined during the recession,” according to Monster.

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Meeting with APICS LA, Lean Problem Solving: The Toyota Way

September 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment

LA IIE Members are invited to join APICS Los Angeles chapter and register at the APICS Member Rate

LA APICSAPICS Los Angeles chapter

 

 

APICS, Los Angeles Chapter would like to invite you to our first Professional Development Meeting (PDM) of the year.  We are excited to have renowned guest speaker Samuel Obara speak on the subject of Lean Problem Solving: The Toyota Way. Samuel has over 20 years experience helping over 200 companies all over the world solve problems that are unique to their organization.

PDM OVERVIEW: Lean Problem Solving:The Toyota Way

This presentation will highlight the most common mistakes companies make when copying Toyota’s methods to problem solving.  Rather than understanding the principles and what drives those principles in Toyota, organizations are copying the Toyota tools and adjusting  their results to resemble a lean implementation.   This situation presents frequent mistakes to include focusing attention to the Toyota tool and how to use it, rather than discovering the reasons that caused Toyota to create that tool in the first place.  Moreover, reviewing crucial steps to understanding a problem and its causes are usually replaced by the highly anticipated steps of implementing countermeasures, so there is something visible to show.

Furthermore, key concepts of Genchi-genbutsu (real place, real stuff), is traditionally misunderstood by superficial data collection.  Samuel will share pictorial examples of root cause analysis and how this technique can make a difference in how you solve problems from now on.

Sam Obara
SPEAKER: Samuel Obara
Samuel Obara has implemented the Toyota Production System (TPS) at Toyota facilities in
Japan, Brazil, USA and Venezuela. In over 20 years of TPS experience, he has helped over 200 companies in diverse environments ranging from schools, to government agencies, to bio-tech to banks and in a variety of countries, including China, Mexico, Canada, Indonesia, Brazil, Japan, Austria, Africa, the U.K., and the U.S.  He is a faculty member with the Lean Institute Brazil, USA and Mexico and an instructor of Global Strategy Management for the California Community College system. He is a guest lecturer on Lean for post-graduate
classes at Stanford University and has been a speaker at conferences sponsored by the American Production and Inventory Control Society, the Association for Productivity and Quality (APQ), and the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He has been featured in Lean publications such as the Assembly Magazine in the USA and Pharmaceutical Insider in Mexico.

Location: Holiday Inn Torrance, 19800 S. Vermont, Torrance, CA  (Map)

For directions only:  (310) 781-9100

Date: Thursday, September 22

Time:
5:45 – 6:45 PM, Registration & networking
6:45 – 7:30 Dinner
7:30 – 9:00 Speaker

Register and prepay at the LA APICS website.

We look forward to seeing you at the September PDM.

IIE LA Chapter thanks Michael Johns, CPIM, VP Communications and Lee Schwartz, VP Programs for coordinating with us to make this available for our members.

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August 2011 IIE LA Webinar

August 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

IIE-LA Chapter Aug activity has been posted in Linkedin! … it’s easy
to
attend … from the comfort of your computer!

Webinar: “Benefits of Video
in Lean Management”

When: Thursday Aug 25th @ 11:30 AM

Host: Luis
Armendariz, Protime Systems

Some companies are having difficulties in
sustaining Lean. Others are
reaping the benefits of video-recording work
processes. Find out the
best practices of using digital video and how it can
help in managing
your IE or lean initiative, we will discuss other video
applications in
deploying lean methodologies. This webinar is sponsored by
Protime
Systems.

Sign Up Here: http://protimesystems.com/Training/training_signup.html
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Post
your experiences on LinkedIn related to using video to make
improvements and
sign up for the FREE Webinar Sponsored by Protime
Systems. Seating
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We
look forward to seeing you there…on the web!

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IIE L.A.: Improving Life for the Developmentally Disabled

August 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Members from Ventura, Claremont, Long Beach converge on AbilityFirst Los Angeles Work Center

IIE members met recently at the Los Angeles Work Center for AbilityFirst to begin a project to improve the efficiency of the Business Services Division.  This Division is where adults with physical and developmental disabilities are gainfully employed to solve corporate needs.  The income supplied by this Division helps support other programs and services, for adults and children, with physical and developmental disabilities, the core purpose of AbilityFirst.  This income is important as government support steadily dwindles.

Ms. Isis McDonald, the Director of the Business Services Division, stated that her Division is “in the black”.  She stressed the importance that with shrinking government funding for programs and services, internal funding sources be developed. Strategically, as a profit center, it is critical that growth be done in an “intelligent” manner.  The Secure Shredding Service has been identified as a growth service.  Because of “chain of custody” issues, growth must be closely tied to process control. A seeming perfect fit for the skills of industrial engineers.

The project calls on IIE as a partner to have members apply their professional skills to improve operational effectiveness within the Business Services Division.  Our first task is to help define “capacity” for their nascent Secure Shredding Service.  After an orientation by Ms. McDonald and a tour by Work Center Director, Fennie Washington, the 12 engineers went to the Gemba to fully understand the task at hand.  In 2-3 weeks, a VSM will be developed and available for the team to analyze.  Members of the team are assigned to take
video of the loading and unloading of the shredder.  Also, video of the unloading of the bins from the truck will also be completed for later analysis.  Finally, a strategy for pick up will be developed from members who have experience in developing these algorithms.

Using DMAIC methodology, we hope to demonstrate the value in using this problem-solving format.  We feel we have “D” identified (capacity), “M” will include the development of the VSM.  With an accurate picture of the operation, a current state capacity model may be built and presented.  From this, an “A” analysis of possible improvements can be forecast and recommendations for “I” improvement can be derived.

To view a recent report of Ability First’s activities, follow this link.

Stay tuned for further updates.

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August 2011 Webinar: Benefits of Video in Lean Management

July 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Our Aug activity has been posted on Linked in ! … no excuse to attend …
from the comfort of your computer !

When: Thursday Aug 25th @ 11:30 AM “Webinar: Benefits of Video in Lean Management”

Post your experiences in Linkedin related on using video to make
improvements and sign up for the FREE Webinar Sponsored by Protime
Systems. Seating is limited !

http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=2857383&type=member&item=61876131&qid=45400498-7805-4231-84b3-7e5e1c2f54fb&goback=%2Egmp_2857383

For those not yet on Linkedin, reply with your experiences and sign up
below:

http://protimesystems.com/Training/training_signup.html

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Ability First Orientation Meeting

July 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment

MEETING NOTICE – An orientation meeting for all those interested in participating in our project with AbilityFirst will be held:

Saturday, July 23 at 9:00AM. It will be held at an AbilityFirst location in Los Angeles, near USC.

AbilityFirst
3812 South Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90037

It should take no longer than 2 hours.
Agenda:
1. Orientation
2. Tour
3. Q&A
Please respond here as to whether you can attend. We will use the replies here as an RSVP.

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