Mississippi State University
Forest and Wildlife Research Center
Department of Forest Products
PO Box 9820
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9820
662-325-2116
The purpose of this project was to develop an advance Lean Production and Certification program to transfer various continuous improvement methods, techniques, and subsystems to wood products industry personnel.
Project objectives are:
1. Development of an 8-hour seminar to be used as a technical knowledge transfer vehicle.
2. An evaluation of success or failure of follow-up workshops.
3. Development of a certification process whereby personnel pass various requirements of LP implementation.
training, lean, lean production, lean certification, economic competitiveness, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, VA Tech, Virginia
US Forest Service Grant
$ 24,720
Cooperative Funding
$ 26,842
Total
$ 51,562
A well designed delivery of workshop materials was developed and is available to help train leaders in the industry how to apply advanced lean production techniques to improve the sustainability and competitiveness of hardwood processing operations. Project details are included in the final report listed below. For copies of workshop materials or questions about advance lean production techniques contact Earl Kline, VA Tech - Wood Science at kline@vt.edu.
For detailed results of this project, please see the references below.
