ACCELERATE YOUR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT JOURNEY
Is your company located in the St. Louis area and committed to continuous improvement? Are you seeking ways to accelerate your improvement journey, deliver better value to your customers, and engage your workforce? Join the AME St. Louis Consortium today and become part of a collaborative learning network of local companies that are committed to performance excellence and collaborative learning. Consortium membership is open to companies from any industry (manufacturing, health care, financial services, software, distribution, information technology, and more) in the St. Louis area with a desire to share and learn to become part of this practitioner-to-practitioner network. Leverage collective resources and knowledge and improve your approach to improvement!
Interested in joining? Get an introduction to the AME St. Louis Consortium and learn more about the benefits, offerings and more. Contact Jonathan Jones, AME St. Louis Consortium facilitator, at jonathan@jonathanjonesconsulting.com or 314-608-0783.
DON'T MISS:
Advancing the Manufacturing Community by Banding Together with Marc Braun & Jonathan Jones
The Manufacturing Executive is a growth strategy podcast for manufacturing leaders, hosted by Gorilla 76 thinker & founder Joe Sullivan. The podcast recently hosted Marc Braun, executive coach at MDB, chairman for the AME, former president of Cambridge Air Solutions, author, and volunteer and Jonathan Jones, AME consortium facilitator, CEO Peer Advisory Board Leader, executive coach, author and community leader. In this episode, they discuss:
Building relationships between companies and sharing best practices
How transparency encourages employee pride and engagement
Creating the right culture to develop leaders
Growth is not a riskless adventure
Accelerating the speed of innovation
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
601 Pearl Drive
St. Peters, MO 63376
Agenda:
9:15 a.m. - Arrival and check-in
9:30 a.m. - Intro - agenda and GMP
9:50 a.m. - Tour (gemba walk, receiving scheduling, manufacturing design, new product development
11:20 a.m. - Q&A
11:45 a.m. Cosmos minute - company-wide collaboration
12 p.m. - Closing
12:15 p.m. - Event adjourns
Cosmos Corporation Hybrid Plant Tour: Continuous Improvement Update
Cosmos Corporation invites you to attend a plant tour of their facility. This hybrid tour will offer in-person attendance and a virtual Zoom option. The tour will highlight multiple areas of continuous improvement at Cosmos, including:
Gemba walk
Visual management
Receiving / inbound freight scheduling
Cell design and line balancing
Business process excellence in NPD
Utilizing technology for project management, dashboards, and collaboration
Participant Benefits
Design tools
Layout for flow
Leader standard work
Management system reporting
Quality
Raw materials and waste reduction
Host Company
Cosmos Corporation is a recognized leader in natural health, wellness, and care products. From its beginning in 1980, it has been family-owned and operated in the Midwest, with headquarters today in Saint Peters, Missouri. Founded by a barber turned beauty products distributor, it's legacy in human haircare has since expanded to address consumer needs in personal care, pet health and wellness products, and household cleaning solutions under the Texture Theory™, TropiClean®, Naturél Promise®, and Urine Off® brands. Cosmos was established, with a mission, to provide for people experiencing poverty around the globe. Since the beginning, it has supported its founder’s call to meet essential needs like food, shelter, and education for underserved communities. From its humble roots, Cosmos has grown into a global manufacturer with the capacity to make an even greater impact by giving back to programs that serve those in need abroad and closer to home. https://www.cosmoscorp.com/
UPCOMING EVENTS
Consortia Members attend all St. Louis Consortium events free of charge! Contact Tina to receive event discount code to enter at registration.
Home in Home Company Visits
"Go See" - Visit a consortium member company to share, learn & grow.
Scheduling Now
Record visit in passport
Share your Highlights in passport and at the next board meeting
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
NEW TO THE CONSORTIA?
We are excited to have you as part of the AME St. Louis Consortium and look forward to the opportunity to share, learn and grow with your organization.
ST. LOUIS CONSORTIUM MEMBER COMPANIES
