Learn How to Save
Thousands in Energy Costs

Energy costs are skyrocketing and your bottom-line is suffering.  Learn how to improve your facility’s energy efficiency and save thousands on your energy bills by attending the Energy Efficiency Workshop on August 7th in Hopkinsville.

This workshop, geared specifically for manufacturers, will cover techniques for improving the efficiency of your facility’s:
• compressed air systems;
• steam systems;
• pumping systems; and
• lighting systems.

The workshop will take place from 9 am until 3:30 pm CDT. Registration is only $79 per person and includes lunch and refreshments.

The workshop will be led by Dr. Glenn T. Cunningham of the Tennessee 3-Star Industrial Assessment Center.  Dr. Cunningham is a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and has earned the Certified Energy Manager designation from the Association of Energy Engineers.  He is also a U.S. Department of Energy Qualified Specialist in Steam and Pumping Systems and a member of the Energy Assessment Team for the Alcoa Energy Efficiency Network.

New Offerings

TWI Creates Solid Foundation for Sustaining Lean – Training Within Industry (TWI) is an established program that teaches leaders the essential skills of job instruction, methods improvement, and leadership. Leaders not only learn TWI’s well-defined and easy-to-implement method for each skill, but practice on actual examples from their own worksites in a “learn-by-doing” approach that is efficient and effective.

• In Job Relations, supervisors learn how to develop and maintain positive employee relations, increase cooperation, and effectively resolve conflicts.

• In Job Methods, supervisors learn how to continually improve the way jobs are done using a systematic approach to eliminating, combining, rearranging and simplifying process steps.

Eureka! Winning Ways – E!WW is a proven process for generating new ideas for company growth and developing a fast-track action plan to convert the best ideas into reality. With E!WW company leaders take a comprehensive approach to growing top-line revenues by creating ideas for more effective marketing approaches, selling to new markets and customer groups, and developing new products. Then, using a patented screening system, E!WW identifies the ideas that have the highest odds of success in the marketplace. Finally, the E!WW Growth Coach guides the leaders through a process of fast-tracking the best ideas into reality.

Contact KMAC for more information on these new services.

Six Sigma Online Training, Deployment Planning & Mentoring

Six Sigma is a disciplined quality improvement methodology with the goal of virtually eliminating defects. While this goal may be quite aggressive, the routine use of Six Sigma methods drives increased customer satisfaction and an improved bottom line by reducing variation and waste in processes. Kentucky Manufacturing Assistance Center now offers Kentucky’s small- and medium-size manufacturers an effective and affordable approach to deploy this powerful system within their organizations. The KMAC approach consists of: 1) Online Six Sigma Training and 2) Six Sigma Deployment Planning & Mentoring.