Location:
Cabela’s – Wheeling
1 Cabela Drive
Triadelphia, WV 26059

Time:
9:30am – 12:30pm

Cost:
$75.00/person

Registration Deadline:
February 12, 2019

Questions?
David Carrick
412.327.9119
david.carrick@mail.wvu.edu

Dee Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

A cause for concern…

Cyber-attacks have quickly become a growing concern for companies of all sizes and industries. Our appetite for technology and being “connected” is quickly outgrowing our ability to protect it, leaving many vulnerable without even realizing it.

Cybersecurity Facts:

• Small & medium-sized businesses are attacked about 4,000 times a day

• Manufacturing companies are consistently a top 5 target

• 60% of small companies are unable to sustain their business over 6 months after an attack

• $445 billion is lost annually to cybercrime and espionage across the entire world economy

• Cybercrimes are projected to exceed 6 trillion by 2022

• Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), & NASA require compliance to cybersecurity standards

How will this workshop help?

If you are like many businesses, you may not know what is expected, or even how to get started. Join us for an event focused on understanding cybersecurity and how to best protect your company’s information. Attendees will learn:

• How to identify potential cyber-threats

• How to protect their employees and information from cyber-attacks

• What is required to be compliant with current cybersecurity standards

About the Presenters

Pat Toth, NIST/MEP

As Cybersecurity Program Manager for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Pat was part of the team responsible for creating the NIST 800-171 cyber security standard.

Chris May, Advantage Technology

As an Information Security Consultant, Chris works closely with your company to identify gaps in current IT practices, determine specific security needs and directives, and recommend best practice solutions to reduce risk.

Location:
Holiday Inn – Martinsburg
301 Foxcroft Ave.
Martinsburg, WV 25401

Time:
9:00am – 3:30pm

Cost:
$199.00/person
(includes lunch)

Registration Deadline:
March 6, 2019

Questions?
Staci Miller
724.610.3845
staci.miller@mail.wvu.edu

Dee Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

Do you have a new Quality Manager who needs trained?

Have you expanded your internal audit team?

Could your team benefit from education on internal auditing, corrective actions, and root cause analysis?

About the seminar:

This one-day course is designed to prepare auditors to conduct internal system audits, identify relevant root causes, identify opportunities for system improvements, and develop sustainable corrective actions.

The course is tailored to the participants, includes case studies, and applies practical application of the auditing process so that you can maximize the value of auditing without spending more time conducting the audits.

Who should attend?

• New quality managers, engineers, representatives
• New internal auditors
• An entire internal audit team
• Quality Leads needing ISO 9001:2015 education

About the Presenter

Staci Miller

Staci Miller has 20+ years of combined experience with both quality and environmental health and safety management systems. She has extensive experience with regulatory compliance and auditing and has worked in manufacturing and consulting capacities. In recent years, Staci has served in senior leadership positions for publicly traded companies and global manufacturing operations.

She has direct experience in developing and improving ISO 9001 & 14001 management systems, has trained nearly 100 internal auditors, and provides hands-on coaching and on-boarding for new quality managers.

Location:
Advanced Technology Center at BridgeValley Community & Technical College
1201 Science Park Drive
South Charleston, WV 25303

Time:
8:00am – 4:00pm

Cost:
$200.00/person

Registration Deadline:
March 12, 2019

Questions?
Dee Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

Jerry Biser
304.290.8425
gerald.biser@mail.wvu.edu

David Carrick
412.327.9119
david.carrick@mail.wvu.edu

Are you interested in learning how to improve your business by:

Reducing Cycle Times

Reducing Inventory

Increasing Capacity

Improving Lead Times

Standardizing Work

Improving Quality

Reducing Work-in-Process

Reducing Downtime

What is Lean Manufacturing?

In today’s ever-changing global economy, companies are faced with fierce competition, and have to continually find ways to remain competitive in their marketplace. The question is how does one improve product and customer value, while reducing cost?

Lean Manufacturing helps you to look at your operation in a manner that identifies and eliminates non-value added activities, more commonly known as WASTE!

Lean establishes a systematic approach to eliminating waste and creating flow throughout the whole company. It also helps you to develop and implement a long-term plan to streamline your operations for success by doing MORE with LESS!

How will this Workshop Help?

Throughout the day, you will learn about principles of Lean Manufacturing including:

o Operational Layout
o Visual Systems
o 5S & Workplace Organization
o Standardized Work
o Batch Size Reduction
o Teams
o Quality at the Source
o Point-of-Use Storage
o Quick Changeover
o Pull Systems/Kanbans
o Cellular Flow
o Total Productive Maintenance

You will first learn about these principles in a classroom, then you will apply the principles inside of a simulated factory through a series of exercises to help further understand the benefits of Lean Manufacturing.

Location:
Holiday Inn – Beckley
114 Dry Hill Rd.
Beckley, WV 25801

Time:
11:30am – 1:30pm

Cost:
$25.00/person Lunch will be provided

Registration Deadline: April 4, 2019

Questions?
Michael Goddard
304.222.4025
michael.goddard@mail.wvu.edu

John A. Frazer, Ph.D., CSP
304.303.3110
john.frazer@mail.wvu.edu

Are you interested in learning more about safety and health in the workplace?

Year after year OSHA publishes the top ten most frequently cited violations. The fact that this list remains similar, reveals the core safety and health management programs that need to be a greater priority for your workplace.  Attendees will enjoy lunch during the seminar.

Workshop Description:

This lunch and learn workshop is intended to arm attendees with the information, knowledge, and skills needed to recognize, evaluate, and control a wide spectrum of occupational safety hazards.  The training covers a variety of general industry safety and health hazards which a worker may encounter and is based on OSHA’s top ten most frequently cited standards.  This training will emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention, not OSHA specific standards.

About the Presenter

John A. Frazer, Ph.D., CSP
Industrial Extension Engineer-WVU

John Frazer is an OSHA-authorized outreach trainer and has nearly 21 years of safety and health experience at WVU-IE. He has provided industrial hygiene and safety consulting to small and mid-sized manufacturing firms throughout West Virginia by helping them identify hazards, design and implement hazard controls, and discuss the feasibility of such controls to eliminate or reduce occupational exposures in the workplace.

Location:
BridgeValley Advanced
Technology Center
1201 Science Park Drive
South Charleston, WV 25303

Time:
8:30am – 12:00pm

Cost:
$50.00/person

Registration Deadline:
April 30, 2019

Questions?
David Carrick
412.327.9119
david.carrick@mail.wvu.edu

Deedre Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

Do you want to learn more about implementing automation and robotics into your facility?

Manufacturers have a wide variety of opportunities for improvement in their facilities, and now automation and robotics have become more cost effective than ever before.

Learn what options are available and how they can be used to streamline, supplement, or improve existing manufacturing operations at this new workshop.

We will have collaborative robots on-site for demonstrations, hands-on experience, and more.

About This Workshop

This workshop will cover the following topics and more:
•  Overview of the types of automation and robotics currently available
•  Trends in automation and robotics
•  Real world solutions to practical manufacturing problems
•  Identifying opportunities for automation and robotics in your existing facility
•  Collaborative robot information and demonstrations

Location:
Cabela’s – Wheeling
1 Cabela Drive
Triadelphia, WV 26059

Time:
9:30am – 4:00pm

Cost:
$199.00/person

Registration Deadline:
May 15, 2019

Questions?
Jerry Biser
304.290.8425
gerald.biser@mail.wvu.edu

Dee Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

What DEP regulations and permits are required for your organization?

Would your company be ready if the DEP showed up at your facility?

Do the new Above Ground Storage Tank rules apply to your facility?

What is required in a Storm Water Pollution Prevention and Groundwater Protection Plans?

About the seminar:

This one day course is designed to inform and guide participants to a better understanding of the required permits by the WVDEP and EPA for West Virginia businesses and manufacturers in air, water, and waste.

Upon completion of this class, you should have a clear understanding of the appropriate regulations applicable to your facility, understand the permit process, develop and implement a compliant SWPPP/GPP, SPCC plan, and/or a Spill Prevention Response Plans (SPRP), in your facility.

If your facility already has a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan, or Spill Pollution Control and Countermeasures plan, participants will have a clear understanding of the requirements and possible violations when plans are not properly maintained.

About the Presenter

Dr. Terry L. Polen

This 6-hour seminar is being conducted in coordination with WVU Industrial Extension/ WVMEP and the WVDEP with Dr. Terry L. Polen, DM, PE, QEP, Ombudsman from the WVDEP.

Some of the topics Dr. Polen will cover:
• Required Permits
• Spill Pollution Control and Countermeasures (SPCC)
• Regulations for Used Oil
• Hazardous and Solid Waste
• Oil & Gas Permitting
• Toxic Release Inventories
• Developing Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP) & Groundwater Protection Plans (GPP)
• Above Ground Storage Tanks (AST) rules

Location:
Fairfield Inn & Suites – Lewisburg
273 Coleman Dr.
Lewisburg, WV 24901

Time:
8:30am – 12:00pm

Cost:
$50.00/person

Registration Deadline:
May 31, 2019

Questions?
David Carrick
412.327.9119
david.carrick@mail.wvu.edu

Michael Goddard
304.222.4025
michael.goddard@mail.wvu.edu

Why Innovation?

Whether it be identifying new products, or new processes, companies with a focus on innovation realize 50-100% more growth and profit over a three year period.

Product Innovation

The driving force behind this growth is a common thread between ideas, products, and markets. That thread is often a systematic approach to how companies not only define and evaluate good ideas and their market potential, but also the diversification of existing products and capabilities into new markets as well.

Process Innovation

Using a systematic approach to innovate internal processes and procedures is critical to the success of any company. This allows companies to maintain a competitive advantage over the competition by maintaining a stance as industry leaders, leaving the competition to try and keep up.

About This Workshop

Whether you have a new product idea, need to reduce cost, decrease turnaround time, or are interested in ideas for growing your business, this workshop will introduce a systematic process for identifying, vetting, and launching successful ideas.
Topics to be discussed include:
• Introduction to Innovation

• Identifying your vision for innovation activities

• Developing and defining good ideas

• Understanding potential threats to the success of an idea

• Calculating the potential financial impacts of ideas

• Choosing the right market for your ideas

• Finding a balance between new ideas and existing products

Location:
The Blennerhassett Hotel
320 Market Street
Parkersburg, WV 26101

Time:
8:30am – 4:00pm

Cost:
$150.00/person

Registration Deadline:
June 4, 2019

Questions?
David Carrick
412.327.9119
david.carrick@mail.wvu.edu

Dee Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

About the Workshop

Leadership can be extremely difficult. It requires balancing internal and external customer’s needs, production schedules, goals, unexpected problems, unforeseen changes, and personnel issues. How does one successfully juggle these responsibilities to ensure the successful future of the company?

During this day-long class you will be introduce to a variety of leadership skills that will help you to become a more effective leader.

Topics to be covered include:
•  Introduction to Leadership
•  Behavioral Styles and TeamDynamics
•  Staying Focused and TimeManagement
•  Managing Chaos – ChangeManagement
•  Coaching and Managing Conflict
•  Communication Skills

About the Presenter

Chuck Stump, founder of The Performance Group, believes that attitude is ultimately more important than skill. A Charleston native and graduate of West Virginia University, he uses his diverse background and experience as a corporate manager, a proven facilitator, a trusted consultant, and the owner of four different businesses to help his clients build their people, so their people can build their business.

Since 1998, he has presented over 1,300 fun and informative presentations in the areas of leadership, change management, individual and organizational behavior, client care, and communication. His seminars use more than 27 years of hard-learned life lessons that help people change not only the way they think…but the way they act!

His client list reads like a “who’s-who” of businesses of all sizes including successful companies like Amazon.com, McDonald’s, 3M, and City National Bank just to name a few.

Location:
Holiday Inn – Martinsburg
301 Foxcroft Ave.
Martinsburg, WV 25401

Time:
9:00am – 3:30pm

Cost:
$199.00/person

Registration Deadline:
July 16, 2019

Questions?
Jerry Biser
304.290.8425
gerald.biser@mail.wvu.edu

Dee Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

What DEP regulations and permits are required for your organization?

Would your company be ready if the DEP showed up at your facility?

Do the new Above Ground Storage Tank rules apply to your facility?

What is required in a Storm Water Pollution Prevention and Groundwater Protection Plans?

About the seminar:

This one day course is designed to inform and guide participants to a better understanding of the required permits by the WVDEP and EPA for West Virginia businesses and manufacturers in air, water, and waste.

Upon completion of this class, you should have a clear understanding of the appropriate regulations applicable to your facility, understand the permit process, develop and implement a compliant SWPPP/GPP, SPCC plan, and/or a Spill Prevention Response Plans (SPRP), in your facility.

If your facility already has a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan, or Spill Pollution Control and Countermeasures plan, participants will have a clear understanding of the requirements and possible violations when plans are not properly maintained.

About the Presenter

Dr. Terry L. Polen

This 6-hour seminar is being conducted in coordination with WVU Industrial Extension/ WVMEP and the WVDEP with Dr. Terry L. Polen, DM, PE, QEP, Ombudsman from the WVDEP.

Some of the topics Dr. Polen will cover:
• Required Permits
• Spill Pollution Control and Countermeasures (SPCC)
• Regulations for Used Oil
• Hazardous and Solid Waste
• Oil & Gas Permitting
• Toxic Release Inventories
• Developing Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP) & Groundwater Protection Plans (GPP)
• Above Ground Storage Tanks (AST) rules

Location:
Holiday Inn – Beckley
114 Dry Hill Road
Beckley, WV 25801

Time:
9:30am – 12:30pm

Cost:
$75.00/person

Registration Deadline:
July 30, 2019

Questions?
David Carrick
412.327.9119
david.carrick@mail.wvu.edu

Michael Goddard
304.222.4025
michael.goddard@mail.wvu.edu

A cause for concern…

Cyber-attacks have quickly become a growing concern for companies of all sizes and industries. Our appetite for technology and being “connected” is quickly outgrowing our ability to protect it, leaving many vulnerable without even realizing it.

Cybersecurity Facts:

• Small & medium-sized businesses are attacked about 4,000 times a day

• Manufacturing companies are consistently a top 5 target

• 60% of small companies are unable to sustain their business over 6 months after an attack

• $445 billion is lost annually to cybercrime and espionage across the entire world economy

• Cybercrimes are projected to exceed 6 trillion by 2022

• Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), & NASA require compliance to cybersecurity standards

How will this workshop help?

If you are like many businesses, you may not know what is expected, or even how to get started. Join us for an event focused on understanding cybersecurity and how to best protect your company’s information. Attendees will learn:

• How to identify potential cyber-threats

• How to protect their employees and information from cyber-attacks

• What is required to be compliant with current cybersecurity standards

About the Presenters

Pat Toth, NIST/MEP

As Cybersecurity Program Manager for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Pat was part of the team responsible for creating the NIST 800-171 cyber security standard.

Chris May, Advantage Technology

As an Information Security Consultant, Chris works closely with your company to identify gaps in current IT practices, determine specific security needs and directives, and recommend best practice solutions to reduce risk.

Location:
Advanced Technology Center at BridgeValley Community & Technical College
1201 Science Park Drive
South Charleston, WV 25303

Time:
8:30am – 4:30pm

Cost:
$1,545.00/person

Registration Deadline:
October 1, 2019

Questions?
Dee Hayes
304.376.3346
deedre.hayes@mail.wvu.edu

Jerry Biser
304.290.8425
gerald.biser@mail.wvu.edu

About This Workshop:

This 3-day Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement is being offered as a collaboration between WVU Industrial Extension/MEP and the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers.

Workshop Description:

This introductory 3-day course will give you a thorough understanding of Six Sigma and how to eliminate defects through fundamental process knowledge. You’ll be able to quantify the critical quality issues in a company and then apply statistics to provide probabilities of success and failure.

Learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics and engineering to achieve tangible results. As a Six Sigma Green Belt, you will be equipped to support and champion Six Sigma implementation in your organization.

Participants must participate in all three days of the workshop and will take IISE’s Green Belt exam on the final afternoon.

What You Will Learn:

• Design and develop Six Sigma projects
• Determine process capability
• Employ the DMAIC process
• Perform basic statistical analysis on process measurements
• Prepare root cause analysis
• Support and champion Six Sigma implementation in your organization
• Explain the Six Sigma philosophy

Certification:

Individuals who complete all of the course requirements, including passing the final test, will receive the Six Sigma Green Belt Certification from the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers.

Additional Information:

Please bring a push button calculator.