Training - Webinars

Manufacturing Summit 2017

• Economic Development in the 21st Century  |  Jay Moon
• The Impact of Bringing Back Jobs: Transportation & Economic Development Implications  |  Chad Miller
• Truths and Misconceptions about Millennial Employees  |  James Vardaman
• A Successful Model for Raising Career Awareness  |  Garrett McInnis
• The Talent War: Can America Regain Our Manufacturing Edge?  |  Jack McDougle

Panel Discussion: The Talent War: Can America Regain Our Manufacturing Edge?

• The Mississippi Partnership Workforce Development Area  |  Gary Golden
• Ingalls Shipbuilding  |  Edmond Hughes
• Hunter Engineering Company  |  Ken Lowery
• Mississippi Department of Education  |  Mike Mulvihill

Reshoring Summit 2016

• Overview of Mississippi Make It in America  |  Clay Walden
• Reshoring-Bringing Industry and Services Back to Mississippi  |  Mickey Milligan
• InnovateMEP Make It In America  |  Jay Tice
• NIST MEP Make It In America National Perspective  |  Jay Tice
• Affordable Furniture Reshoring Case  |  Charles Boxx
• TheMaxBit-Made In America  |  Michele Morton
• Mississippi Automotive Manufacturing Supply Chain  |  Don Stoegbauer
• Reshoring Trends Update  |  Harry Moser
• Nissan Advanced Maintenance Internship  |  Gino Perkins
• Management & Supervisor Training  |  Chip Bailey
• ALGIX Adoption of Lean Six Sigma  |  Ryan Hunt
• Caterpillar Lean Certification  |  Rene Jeanfreau
• Reshoring at Hunter Engineering  |  Ken Lowery
• Walmart US Supplier Summit  |  Tony Jeff

Manufacturing Summit 2016

Disruptive Technologies in Manufacturing

• The Internet of Things  |  Roberto Gallardo
• Big Data and Data Science  |  Roger King
• Laser Based Additive Manufacturing  |  Scott Thompson

• New Pathway Model for Mississippi Workforce  |  James Williams
• Cybersecurity - It’s not if you will have a cybersecurity breach, but when! Are you prepared?  |  David Dampier
• Penetration Testing  |  Wesley McGrew
• Cyber Protection Team’s Benefit to Critical Infrastructure  |  Emmett Lawrence

Manufacturing Summit 2015

• Keynote Address: Mississippi Works  |  Governor Phil Bryant
• Regulatory Environment Update – Furniture and Home Furnishings  |  Bill Perdue
• Landscape for the Future of Manufacturing in Mississippi and the Region  |  Dr. Malcolm Portera
• MSU's Support for the Mississippi Manufacturing Landscape  |  Dr. David Shaw

Panel Discussion: The Future of Logistics and Transportation in Manuacturing

• Manufacturing Logistics  |  Christopher Bednar
• Container on Barge  |  Barry Hunt
• Rail Transportation  |  Dan Pallme
• Highway Transportation  |  Steve Puryear

Reshoring Summit 2014

• Make it in Mississippi  |  Clay Walden
• Make it in America Manufacturing Extension Parnership  |  Jay Tice
• To reshore or offshore? How to objectively decide   |  Harry Moser
• Total Cost of Ownership: How and When to Use it  |  Harry Moser
• Reshoring: A Manufacturing Strategic Perspective  |  Jay Moon

OEM Panel Discussion

• Huntington Ingalls Industries: Who We Are  |  Lori Harper

Success Stories

• Battle Bells  |  Stephen Caples
• Acco Brands  |  Bob Alley
• Innovate MEP Success Story/Coil Winding Cycle Time Improvements, Small Power Transformers  |  Wyatt Koerner

Manufacturing Summit 2014

Panel: Transportation and Logistics: The Road Ahead

• Career Accelerated Pathway "CAP"  |  Cole Bernstein
• Global Supply Chain  |  Cole Bernstein
• Transportation and Logistics  |  Lee Wagner
• Tranportation and Economic Development  |  Mary Ann Moon

Panel: Workforce Development: Opportunities and Solutions

• Workforce Development…The Road Ahead  |  Edmond Hughes

Presentations

• Regulatory Environment Update  |  Bill Perdue
• Supplier/Manufacturer Collaboration  |  Greg Brinkman
• The Affordable Care Act Update  |  Pepper Crutcher
• The Evolution and Future of Manufacturing Competitiveness  |  Jack McDougle

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Manufacturing Summit 2013

• Top Ten Employer Affordable Care Act Compliance Strategies  |  R. Pepper Crutcher
• Franklin Furniture Institute  |  Bill Martin
• Mississippi Furniture Industry  |  Bill Martin
• Where Are We Now? TB 117 2012, Prop 65  |  Bill Perdue
• Consumer Buying Attitudes and Behavior  |  Nicole Ponder
• Solutions for Surviving the Skilled Labor Shortage  |  Bill Renick
• Manufacturing in Northeast Mississippi  |  David Rumbarger
• Answering Consumer Questions with Certified Foam  |  Helen Sullivan
• Accelerating Jobs and Innovation Through Community and Economic Development in Rural Mississippi  |  Clay Walden
• Developing the Next Generation Workforce for the Furniture Industry  |  James Williams

Reshoring, Retaining and Growing Mississippi's Manufacturing Jobs

• Reshoring: A Manufacturing Strategic Perspective  |  Jay Moon
• Reshoring Initiative: Bringing Manufacturing Back Home  |  Harry Moser
• Support for Reshoring in Mississippi  |  Brent Christensen
• CAVS Extension…Impacting Mississippi  |  H. Glenn Dennis
• The Southern Motion Companies  |  Guy Lipscomb
• Multicraft International
• Navistar Defense-Armored Military Vehicles
• Quality Manufacturing Group

Furniture Flammability

Manufacturing Summit 2011

• Furniture Industry and Capital Market Environment  |  Howard Armistead
• Using an EMS to enHance the Environment and your Bottom Line  |  Mary Jean Gates
• Mississippi Workforce Training Solutions  |  Wanda Land
• Franklin Furniture Institute  |  Bill Martin
• Reuse, Reduce, Recycle  |  Don Meurer
• Washington in Review  |  Bill Simmons

Understanding Changing Consumer Behaviors

• The 2010 Consumer  |  Ray Allegrezza, Furniture Today
• What Do We Do Now?  |  Alvin Wight

Surviving in the Upholstery World of Over-Supply

• Employee Retention and Motivation During the Recovery  |  Beth Herman
• Unleashing Employees' Entrepreneurial Spirit  |  Michael Harbaugh
• Lower your Fabric Layout/Cutting Yardage Requirements, Increase your Plywood Yields on Every Frame You Cut, All with Production Run Quantities of One  |  Cliff Thorn
• Waste Reduction Value Engineering  |  Bob Cleary
• Federal Policy Implications and the Domestic Manufacturing Environment  |  Bill Purdue
• Federal Policy Implications and the Domestic Manufacturing Environment  |  Bill Simmons

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