

Sportech is a product development company that has rapidly expanded its customer base and product portfolio as a major supplier to the powersports industry. Their business model is focused on designing, developing, and manufacturing products in close cooperation with leading OEMs.
Helen Swanson and her team will share the 3P process they used recently and the improvements they made in labor, floor space, throughput, future product design, cost, quality, and communications as part of that project.
Agenda
12 p.m. Welcome, introductions, and check-in
12:15 Sportech 3P overview
12:30 Discussion of improvements developed and implemented
1:00 Q&A and next steps
1:15 Upcoming Optima events and adjourn
Optima’s Leaders Roundtable group provides Executive CI Leaders an opportunity to meet other CI Leaders and learn from one another. Members of each Roundtable group are from non-competing organizations who have been on the Continuous Improvement journey and are willing to share their successes and their struggles along the way. Discussions help members to determine strengths and weaknesses in their organization’s CI journey and to gauge where their organization is at on the CI journey. Members not only get the chance to share their knowledge and experience, but also get to “sharpen the saw” by benefiting from others’ knowledge and experience. Roundtable groups meet quarterly.
The Paradigm President’s Group in MN and the Paradigm Group in ND were designed to foster strong relationships between our members and to unlock the value of real-world best practices. We meet monthly for ½ day at a member site and this is an opportunity for each member to benchmark the best practices (and the not so best practices) of other companies. Members, in utmost confidentiality, discuss their successes and failures and ask their fellow members for advice and analysis.