FlowVision is a leading consultant on Lean and Flow Manufacturing. Our real-world expertise in lead-time
                        reduction and supply chain management make today's manufacturers more profitable and competitive.

FlowVision Presents it's Premier Line Design Workshop for the Green Industry in 3 Locations:

Raleigh, NC - December 11 & 12, 2007

Denver, CO - December 13 & 14, 2007

Toledo, Ohio - December 18 & 19, 2007

Learn what the Green industry leaders are doing to reduce cost in a very tight margin industry. Reduce cost by improving productivity, optimizing floor space, improving throughput, and reducing overproduction. FlowVision's flagship workshop is designed to help growers, nurseries, cloning labs,seed production facilities and vegetative farms become more efficient and reduce cost. Come and learn how Lean Flow techniques can be applied in an industry ripe for Lean. FlowVision’s robust Rapid-Lean methodology is based on a mathematical foundation that takes the "art" out of Lean, and replaces it with "engineering science" – the result is complete transformation in under six months rather than years.

Some of the topics covered in the workshop:

	Process Flow Charts		One-Piece Flow
	Product/Process Matrices		Line Staffing
	Standard Operation Worksheets		Resource Utilization
	Takt Time Calculation		Material Kanban Sizing
	Line Balancing		Visual Instruction Sheets
	In-Process Kanban (IPK) Sizing		Balancing Techniques
	Supermarket Dock Sizing		Implementation strategy
	Production Scheduling		Line Management

FlowVision Cover Story in GrowerTalks

Gerson “Gary” Cortes is the guy who brought lean flow to the green industry, first with Kerry’s Bromeliads and then with Ball Horticultural Company. Gary is a partner in FlowVision, of Dillon, Colorado, a consultancy that works with major firms such as Cisco Systems, John Deere and Ingersoll Rand. Gary has found that floriculture is very labor intensive. But at the same time, he doesn’t think we are unique or special— we are nothing more than “less-than-optimized factories.” Which means we are perfect candidates........

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“Utilizing lean/flow concepts in our packing and shipping area has allowed us to more than double our throughput with the same resources. FlowVision took the guesswork out of implementing lean/flow which facilitated our ability to accurately process more orders and grow our business.”

Karl Batschke
Production Manager
Ball FloraPlant
Costa Rica