Hub Huddle: Increasing Productivity & Decreasing Turnover: A Potential Solution to Workforce Issues
Date and Time
Friday Aug 9, 2019
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CDT
Friday, Aug. 9
9-10:30 a.m.
Location
Quad Cities Chamber
Arconic Room
331 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Fees/Admission
FREE
Contact Information
Lynn Friesth
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Hub Huddle: Increasing Productivity &...
Description
Hub Huddles are an opportunity for manufacturing leaders to share, on a peer-to-peer basis, best practices for growth and strategies to overcoming challenges.
Increasing Productivity and Decreasing Turnover: A Potential Solution to Workforce Issues
Presented by Rudy Pruszko
Iowa State University - Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS)
This presentation will explore how manufacturers can address workforce issues by using Training Within Industry (TWI) tools to:
- Improve productivity by leveraging continuous improvement programs for maximum benefit
- Retain employees by increasing job satisfaction and morale and creating a safe working environment
- Reduce training times for new employees and capture the knowledge and experience of retiring employees
Training Within Industry (TWI) is a dynamic program of hands-on learning and practice, teaching essential skills for supervisors, team leaders and anyone who directs the work of others. TWI is an element of continuous improvement programs around the world including the Toyota Production System.
Who should attend?
This session is ideal for Human Relations managers, supervisors and owners that are concerned about the lack of available workforce and its long-term negative effects on their organizations.
About the speaker
Rudy Pruszko has more than 25 years of experience in areas such as technical product marketing, engineering and production management, feasibility studies, quality management, bio-fuels consulting, and plant management. He has worked in a variety of management roles in the chemical, agricultural machinery and biofuels industries.
Currently Rudy leads CIRAS efforts in ISO quality systems, plant safety, and Training Within Industry, including various third-party resource experts. He conducts feasibility studies and consults on bio-fuel projects, with particular interest in biodiesel projects and technologies. He has been serving CIRAS since 1999.
Time will be provided for Q & A and networking with other attendees.
This event is free to attend. Please register at quadcitieschamber.com.
**NOTE: Free on-street, two-hour parking is available in downtown Davenport, or there is a parking garage one block south of the Quad Cities Chamber office at the corner of Ripley & 2nd Streets (enter from Harrison). Pay at the Parkmobile kiosk PRIOR to coming into the building.**
| This program is presented by the Quad Cities Chamber's Quad Cities Manufacturing Innovation Hub and the Defense Industry Adjustment Program. |
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Acknowledgment:This content was prepared as part of the Illinois Defense Industry Adjustment Program, a partnership between the University of Illinois System, the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce, and the Voorhees Center at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), with financial support from the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). It reflects the views of the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce and does not necessarily reflect the views of the OEA. For more information, please visit www.IllinoisDIA.org.
