Events Calendar

Sunday. 16 March, 2025 - Saturday. 22 March, 2025
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Monday. 17 March, 2025
8:30 am

Supervisor Essential Knowledge (PRIVATE TRAINING: MUELLER [Cleveland, TN])

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
2:00 pm

Leadership Development Series: Team Work & Team Building (TCCI)

Virtual Instructor Led Training

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Today’s leader must be versatile and adaptable. Effective leadership results in everything from increased workplace productivity and employee retention, to improved succession planning and, ultimately, a better bottom line. Teams are typically comprised of people with diverse ideas and backgrounds and will always outperform individuals when leaders understand how to build these teams and leverage the strengths of all team members. This course defines types of teams and the typical roles and responsibilities associated with each and discovers problem-solving as a team. 

This training is designed for managers, department heads, front line supervisors, team leaders and coordinators whether they are new to the position or have been in a leadership role for years. 

Course Delivery
Blended Learning - Online, Self-Paced and Instructor Led

Participants will receive a link to the online portion of the course one week prior to the class date, to complete on their own. This is a 1 hour self-paced lesson. Participants will then join a 90 minute, virtual instructor-led class to review course material and apply knowledge through class activities.

Participants will be awarded a badge for each course they complete. A Leadership Development Certificate will be awarded to those participants completing all 7 courses within the certification.


Fees/Admission:
$140/session (Early-bird rate)
$170/session
$980.00 Full series price for all seven sessions
Tuesday. 18 March, 2025
8:00 am

Supervisor Essential Knowledge (PRIVATE TRAINING: MUELLER [Kimball, TN]) (03-18-2025)

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
8:30 am

Supervisor Essential Knowledge (PRIVATE TRAINING: MUELLER [Cleveland, TN]) (03-18-2025)

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
Wednesday. 19 March, 2025
8:30 am

Lean Tools Certification

Smart Factory Institute at the PIE Innovation Center

Early Bird Discount applies until March 5.
Lean Tools

This set of courses cover some of the basic tools used in Lean implementations and the components that make up each. Participants will engage in a factory simulation for applied learning which will enable them to connect the tools to the hands-on experience. This training is designed for operators, supervisors, team leaders, coordinators, technicians and engineers.

Lean principles and lean tools have a very important role in various industrial sectors in today’s manufacturing world. The core idea of lean manufacturing is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste in the manufacturing process. In this class, participants will learn some of the most useful lean tools to use as part of a comprehensive lean implementation plan, achieving goals centered around reducing waste, improving efficiency and increasing customer value.


Courses Include:

2.1.1 Lean Tools: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing

  • Define Lean and its history and understand how to use lean to improve processes;
  • Review the House of Lean Principles along with Management Principles;
  • Establish an understanding of non-value added (NVA) and value added (VA) work.

2.1.2 Lean Tools: Value Stream Mapping

  • Understand how value moves through a value stream;
  • Understand the current state value stream mapping symbols;
  • Create a current state value stream map.

2.1.3 Lean Tools: 5S & Visual Management

  • Know the 5S’s and the benefits of each;
  • Be able to implement 5S throughout a facility and understand how to sustain it;
  • Define the benefits of a visually managed workplace and how to spot abnormalities quickly.

2.1.4 Lean Tools: Quick Changeovers (SMED)

  • Understand the quick changeover methodology and how to perform a quick changeover;
  • Learn the difference between internal and external processes;
  • Use the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle of systematic process improvement for Quick Changeover Implementation.

2.1.5 Lean Tools: Material Flow, Pull & Kanban Systems

  • Understand the benefits of flow in a Lean system; difference between pull vs. push systems;
  • Understand each of the 8 steps in using the Kaizen approach to flow;
  • Define Kanban and uses for Kanban.

2.1.6 Lean Tools: Error Proofing (Poka-Yoke)

  • Define and understand Error Proofing;
  • Learn why Error Proofing is an important part of Lean;
  • Learn the six methods of Error Proofing.

2.1.7 Lean Tools: Standardized Work & Single Point Lessons

  • Understand how to create standardized work;
  • Learn about the different types of Single Point Lessons and how they are used;
  • Learn how to effectively create a Single Point Lesson.
8:30 am

Team Leader Essential Skills (PRIVATE TRAINING: ZEP, INC)

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
8:30 am

Supervisor Essential Knowledge (PRIVATE TRAINING: MUELLER [Cleveland, TN]) (03-19-2025)

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
2:00 pm

Supervisor Essential Knowledge (PRIVATE TRAINING: HYOSUNG HICO) (03-19-2025)

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
Thursday. 20 March, 2025
8:00 am

PowerWorld Simulation - Train The Trainer [PRIVATE TRAINING: WACKER]

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
8:30 am

Lean Tools Certification (03-20-2025)

Smart Factory Institute at the PIE Innovation Center

Early Bird Discount applies until March 5.
Lean Tools

This set of courses cover some of the basic tools used in Lean implementations and the components that make up each. Participants will engage in a factory simulation for applied learning which will enable them to connect the tools to the hands-on experience. This training is designed for operators, supervisors, team leaders, coordinators, technicians and engineers.

Lean principles and lean tools have a very important role in various industrial sectors in today’s manufacturing world. The core idea of lean manufacturing is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste in the manufacturing process. In this class, participants will learn some of the most useful lean tools to use as part of a comprehensive lean implementation plan, achieving goals centered around reducing waste, improving efficiency and increasing customer value.


Courses Include:

2.1.1 Lean Tools: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing

  • Define Lean and its history and understand how to use lean to improve processes;
  • Review the House of Lean Principles along with Management Principles;
  • Establish an understanding of non-value added (NVA) and value added (VA) work.

2.1.2 Lean Tools: Value Stream Mapping

  • Understand how value moves through a value stream;
  • Understand the current state value stream mapping symbols;
  • Create a current state value stream map.

2.1.3 Lean Tools: 5S & Visual Management

  • Know the 5S’s and the benefits of each;
  • Be able to implement 5S throughout a facility and understand how to sustain it;
  • Define the benefits of a visually managed workplace and how to spot abnormalities quickly.

2.1.4 Lean Tools: Quick Changeovers (SMED)

  • Understand the quick changeover methodology and how to perform a quick changeover;
  • Learn the difference between internal and external processes;
  • Use the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle of systematic process improvement for Quick Changeover Implementation.

2.1.5 Lean Tools: Material Flow, Pull & Kanban Systems

  • Understand the benefits of flow in a Lean system; difference between pull vs. push systems;
  • Understand each of the 8 steps in using the Kaizen approach to flow;
  • Define Kanban and uses for Kanban.

2.1.6 Lean Tools: Error Proofing (Poka-Yoke)

  • Define and understand Error Proofing;
  • Learn why Error Proofing is an important part of Lean;
  • Learn the six methods of Error Proofing.

2.1.7 Lean Tools: Standardized Work & Single Point Lessons

  • Understand how to create standardized work;
  • Learn about the different types of Single Point Lessons and how they are used;
  • Learn how to effectively create a Single Point Lesson.
8:30 am

Supervisor Essential Knowledge (PRIVATE TRAINING: MUELLER [Cleveland, TN]) (03-20-2025)

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
2:00 pm

Leadership Development Series: 9.1.7 Delegating Effectively [PRIVATE TRAINING: STEEL CRAFT TECHNOLOGIES]

This is a private client training and registration is closed to the public.

Interested in hosting your employee training at the Smart Factory Institute or at your facility?
The Smart Factory Institute is available for you to host your employee training classes and offers a unique opportunity to provide your employees with hands-on experience using cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes. This immersive learning environment fosters innovation and showcases a commitment to workforce development in the community and industry.

Additionally, Peak Performance offers customized training hosted at a client's facility for a tailored and efficient learning experience designed to address specific organizational needs. By bringing expert trainers directly to the client's location, participants can experience team cohesion, as colleagues collaborate in familiar surroundings.

Contact us at info@peakperformanceinc.com to connect with our Director of Training and Consulting to book your training needs.
Friday. 21 March, 2025
8:30 am

Lean Tools Certification (03-21-2025)

Smart Factory Institute at the PIE Innovation Center

Early Bird Discount applies until March 5.
Lean Tools

This set of courses cover some of the basic tools used in Lean implementations and the components that make up each. Participants will engage in a factory simulation for applied learning which will enable them to connect the tools to the hands-on experience. This training is designed for operators, supervisors, team leaders, coordinators, technicians and engineers.

Lean principles and lean tools have a very important role in various industrial sectors in today’s manufacturing world. The core idea of lean manufacturing is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste in the manufacturing process. In this class, participants will learn some of the most useful lean tools to use as part of a comprehensive lean implementation plan, achieving goals centered around reducing waste, improving efficiency and increasing customer value.


Courses Include:

2.1.1 Lean Tools: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing

  • Define Lean and its history and understand how to use lean to improve processes;
  • Review the House of Lean Principles along with Management Principles;
  • Establish an understanding of non-value added (NVA) and value added (VA) work.

2.1.2 Lean Tools: Value Stream Mapping

  • Understand how value moves through a value stream;
  • Understand the current state value stream mapping symbols;
  • Create a current state value stream map.

2.1.3 Lean Tools: 5S & Visual Management

  • Know the 5S’s and the benefits of each;
  • Be able to implement 5S throughout a facility and understand how to sustain it;
  • Define the benefits of a visually managed workplace and how to spot abnormalities quickly.

2.1.4 Lean Tools: Quick Changeovers (SMED)

  • Understand the quick changeover methodology and how to perform a quick changeover;
  • Learn the difference between internal and external processes;
  • Use the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle of systematic process improvement for Quick Changeover Implementation.

2.1.5 Lean Tools: Material Flow, Pull & Kanban Systems

  • Understand the benefits of flow in a Lean system; difference between pull vs. push systems;
  • Understand each of the 8 steps in using the Kaizen approach to flow;
  • Define Kanban and uses for Kanban.

2.1.6 Lean Tools: Error Proofing (Poka-Yoke)

  • Define and understand Error Proofing;
  • Learn why Error Proofing is an important part of Lean;
  • Learn the six methods of Error Proofing.

2.1.7 Lean Tools: Standardized Work & Single Point Lessons

  • Understand how to create standardized work;
  • Learn about the different types of Single Point Lessons and how they are used;
  • Learn how to effectively create a Single Point Lesson.