You are invited! The next meeting of the Electronics Manufacturers Association (Seattle) is just around the corner, and we hope you will join us. We have another great topic and tour planned for members of the electronics manufacturing industry . . . a meeting you won't want to miss! Since EMA meetings fill up very rapidly, please RSVP right away. Feel free to share this meeting notice with all of your co-workers and others in the industry. It will help us get the news out twice as fast . . . to more people! Meeting details follow, or you can get a complete meeting notice from our web site at http://www.ema-wa.org. While you are there, we invite you to sign up for our EMA listserver. Cruise through our site . . . there is lots of great information right at your mousetips. If you are not a member, check out our convenient on-line membership application. MEETING DATE: May 14, 2002 TIME: 5:30 - Networking and Refreshments 6:00 - Presentation followed by a facility tour. PLACE: National Industrial Concepts, Inc. 23518 63rd Ave. SE Woodinville TOPIC: "Real World / Hands On - - - Lean Manufacturing" SPEAKER: Stephen Mihalick, Consultant COST: $20 for non-members. Members attend free-of-charge. Pay at door; cash or checks only. Pre pay with your credit card at http://www.ema-wa.org/nextmtg.htm RSVP: [log in to unmask] THE PROGRAM The presentation will focus on Lean Manufacturing methods. This will cover the aspects of overproduction, waste of inventory, processing, manpower, motion and transportation. He will outline the training and methods to implement a pull oriented system, how to overcome objections and be successful in the endeavor. A brief speaker bio for Stephen Mihalick, a consultant, is available on our web site at http://www.ema-wa.org/nextmtg.htm. THE TOUR The meeting will be hosted by National Industrial Concepts, Inc. which is the largest precision sheet metal fabricator in the Pacific Northwest. National Industrial Concepts, Inc. (NIC) is the new name for three very well known and respected local companies: Northwest Manufacturing of Redmond, 3D Manufacturing of Bothell and Linton Industries in Lynnwood Washington. The three companies were brought together under common ownership and management during the last 2-4 years. In the spring of 2001 NIC combined its Northwest and 3D operation into a new custom design, 100,000 SF, building in Woodinville. This move afforded them the luxury of starting with a fresh sheet of paper in both how they wanted to lay out their equipment and how to address their manufacturing processes. NIC is now free to fully embrace a "Lean" philosophy in their manufacturing processes. There will be a definitive tie-in between the presentation and the company tour. NIC will demonstrate the application of Lean processes that are presented by Stephen. DRIVING DIRECTIONS: Go to our web site at http://www.ema-wa.org/nextmtg.htm and click on the link for directions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------