Training Topics
Workforce Development
Workforce development training topics are offered by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) 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
Related Terminology
increased throughput • shorter cycle times • reduced operating costs • improve employee retention • employee satisfaction • office productivity • employee training • staff development • lean transformation • ERP • enterprise resources planning • environmental • quality • kaizen • ISO 9000 • industrial engineering • healthcare administration improvement • manufacturing process improvement • six sigma • ISO internal auditing • training effectiveness
