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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) offers workforce development training topics including:

• Process improvement for your business performance 

• Employee training

• Staff development needs

Our broad capabilities enable rapid curriculum development for any aspect of service processes or product manufacturing.

Current client interests include:

• Kaizen event facilitation

• Lean manufacturing

  • Principles of lean

  • Value-stream mapping

  • Cellular manufacturing

  • Flow manufacturing

  • Problem solving

  • Pull / kanban systems

  • Lean six sigma

• Lean healthcare

  • Cycle time improvement

  • Cost reduction

• ERP—enterprise resource planning

  • Software selection

  • Software implementation

  • Return on investment (ROI) improvement of existing systems

• Quality improvement

  • Manufacturing

  • Distribution and service delivery

  • Healthcare patient safety and satisfaction

  • Healthcare process variability reduction

  • ISO 9001:2000 implementation, including compliance to other related aerospace, automotive and medical industry specific standards

  • Six sigma

• Office staff productivity improvement

• Specialized software application implementation

• Technical staff project productivity improvement

For more information about workforce development training topics at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Bill Rafferty at wrafferty@swri.org or (210) 522-5865.

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Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

June 19, 2008