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TechTrends e-Newsletter I October 2003 Page 3 of 4 <br /> Winland Electronics Inc. a Mankato-based designer and manufacturer of custom <br /> • electronic control products and systems, recently announced that it had received <br /> registration to the new updated ISO 9001: 2000 standard for Quality Management <br /> Systems. <br /> Bayport-based Andersen Corp. has unveiled plans to build a 150,000-square-foot <br /> plant in North Branch. The new plant, which will create 135 jobs, will create vinyl <br /> and other types of composite moldings for the company's windows and doors. <br /> R <br /> Is G. Howard Lund, founder of New York Mills-based Lund Boat Co., died on Oct. 22, <br /> 2003. Lund, who retired from the company in 1981, was 91. <br /> OCalendar <br /> Nov. 5, 2003 <br /> Minnesota Technology, Inc., ISO Registration series, Brainerd <br /> Topic: Corrective and Preventive Action <br /> www.minnesotatechnology.org/events/TechForums/forum.asp?forumId=71 <br /> Nov. 6, 2003 <br /> Minnesota Technology, Inc., Tech Forum, St. Paul <br /> I Topic: Pursuing International Growth Opportunities <br /> www.minnesotatechnology.org/events/TechForums/forum.asp?forumId=88 <br /> R <br /> I <br /> March 1, 2004 <br /> Minnesota Technology, Inc., ISO Registration series, Edina <br /> 40 <br /> Topic: Customer Satisfaction Measurement <br /> www.minnesotatechnology.org/events/TechForums/forum.asp?forumId=82 <br /> March 4, 2004 <br /> Minnesota Technology, Inc., ISO Registration series, Brainerd <br /> Topic: Customer Satisfaction Measurement <br /> www.minnesotatechnology.org/events/TechForums/forum.asp?forumId=83 <br /> OPerspective <br /> A <br /> Fighting Trim <br /> gi <br /> fi <br /> Manufacturers discover you can never be too lean. <br /> II0 <br /> How is manufacturing like the high-fashion world? No matter which realm you're in, <br /> if you want to be rich, you'd better be lean. Competitive pressures, at home and <br /> 0 overseas, have prompted more manufacturers to examine their processes and <br /> figure out how to be more productive. Lean manufacturing, according to Dave <br /> P Ahlquist, a member of MTI's Lean Enterprise Team, is "a systematic approach to <br /> identifying waste and non-value activities to improve quality." <br /> 1 <br /> 0 While the Toyota Corp. pioneered lean manufacturing and American automobile <br /> 0 manufacturers embraced it in the 1980s, the principles and processes in lean can be <br /> applied in small shops and even among custom manufacturers, which are constantly <br /> changing the product they produce, says Ahlquist. Lean manufacturing principles <br /> • 1 <br /> emphasize a highly analytical approach. Typically, businesses implementing lean will <br /> look at plant layout, workstation organization, production processes, inventory <br /> turns, batch size and potential sites of wasted time or materials. "Fundamentally, <br /> companies are getting products to flow better," Ahlquist notes. <br /> 1 <br /> http://www.minnesotatechnology.org/publications/techtrends/2003/November/printVersi... 11/10/2003 <br />