Press Release - Leanovations, LLC Sponsors the SBIR Conference “The Future of Manufacturing is Innovation-2”

PRESS RELEASE - March 14, 2007

PLAINVILLE, CT – Fred Shamburg, President of Leanovations, LLC, announces they are a proud sponsor of the Connecticut Small Business Innovation Research (CT SBIR) Regional Conference, “The Future of Manufacturing is INNOVATION – 2” on June 19-21, 2007. The conference is all about innovation. If American manufacturing is going to survive, it must innovate. This conference offers manufacturers and innovators unique networking opportunities to find ways of working together.

Attendees will be able to schedule one-on-one meetings with large corporations and SBIR agencies to talk to them about their technologies and manufacturing capabilities. At last year's conference, many innovators and manufacturers met with large corporations and now have success stories to tell.
Several large corporations will participate such as, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, GE Aviation, GE Edgelab, General Dynamics Electric Boat and Tyco Healthcare. They will present success stories and speak one-on-one with attendees regarding procurement and SBIR collaboration opportunities. Last year’s conference sold out with more than 300 attendees from 19 states. This year, with more agencies and more companies participating, CT SBIR is expecting 500 people. Online registration is now open. For more information go to the Web Sitehttp://www.ccat.us/sbir/conference/sponsorlist.php The conference is at Pratt & Whitney Air Museum, East Hartford, Connecticut.

“Leanovations is proud to be a sponsor for this SBIR Conference especially with the theme being “The Future of Manufacturing is Innovation” as Leanovations is a consulting company who specializes in assisting our clients in Lean and Innovations excellence to create profitable growth”. States, Fred Shamburg, President of Leanovations.

Leanovations emerged as a new innovative consultant company that goes beyond the traditional lean operational approach. Focusing on lean and innovations at the same time differentiates Leanovations from other lean consultant groups. Leanovations proven approach of teaching and coaching using interactive training assists businesses in developing innovative solutions to create profitable growth. Leanovations focuses on teaching businesses to create growth, through lean operational excellence eliminating waste, and to re-invent themselves through innovations.

Leanovations LLC, Consultant Company strives to meet our client’s needs in lean, innovations and managing business complexity to enjoy profitable growth. Leanovations is a Limited Liability Company (LLC) which helps manufacturing companies compete on a worldwide basis.

Fred Shamburg President of Leanovations, LLC to Present “Why Lean Is Not Enough”

PLAINVILLE, CT – Fred Shamburg, President of Leanovations, LLC a consultant company with extensive international experience is the guest speaker for Hartford’s APICS Professional Development Meeting (PDM) on March 13th, 2007 at the Cromwell Marriott at 5PM, to educate Connecticut companies on “Why Lean Is Not Enough”. Leanovations emerged as a new innovative consultant company that goes beyond the traditional lean manufacturing approach. Focusing on lean and innovations at the same time differentiates Leanovations from other consultant groups. Leanovations proven approach of teaching and coaching using interactive training assists companies in developing innovative solutions to create profitable growth.

Fred Shamburg will present how “Conquering Complexity” is critical for a Successful Lean Transformation. Companies have a strong incentive to develop new products and introduce distinctive offerings to gain market share or repel a rival’s attack. For most companies this problem is not unusual. It is natural for businesses to add products to keep customers happy. But as more products are added, the costs of the resulting complexity begin to outweigh the revenues, and profits start falling. What makes this problem particularly damaging is that it tends to be invisible to management.

The way most companies attack complexity is by launching a “cutting-edge” lean manufacturing program, which all companies need to do, but often the results falls short of the profitable goals. Such lean efforts will streamline the production processes, establish world class productivity rates, and routinely attain quality targets. But profitability will usually stagnate, the inventory turns get stuck and at the same time overall costs to manage the complexity increases. Because companies miss their goals, they continue to treat the problem in production with lean and not attacking the real source of managing product complexity and proliferation.

This APICS Professional Development Dinner will provide an overview of Complexity in Business and discuss the strategic thinking required to conquer complexity in your business. The participants will be able to return to their companies with an understanding how to identify their product offering and process complexity and develop a strategy to decide which complexity to keep and exploit, and which ones should be eliminated.

If any individual is interested in attending the APICS PDM on March 13th, 2007 or want to learn more about complexity please refer to the Leanovations website at http://www.leanvoations.com/ or APICS website at www.apics-hartford.com.

Leanovations Consultant Company strives to meet our client’s needs in lean, innovations and managing business complexity to enjoy profitable growth. Leanovations is a Limited Liability Company (LLC) which helps manufacturing companies compete on a worldwide basis.