Advancing Lean Initiatives for Northern Ontario Industry! EMC is supporting Northern Ontario manufacturers and related industries through an initiative focused on building greater productivity success through a new Advancing Lean/Productivity and Cluster Initiative. Through funding support from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario (FedNor) and Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC), EMC is deploying a ‘Lean Management and Productivity Cluster Initiative’, designed to provide industry with enhanced productivity improvement knowledge, networking/benchmarking resources and new management and productivity system training. The Lean Management System training program is being deployed over ten 1-day modules, with added productivity cluster network events in each of the target regions. EMC is holding a series of Productivity Cluster events in Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay, Muskoka, Thunder Bay and Timmins. Also, available are one day learning events in Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay, Muskoka and Timmins to provide new subject-matter content, tools and methods to provide additional technical knowledge for implementation of lean. These events can be in a open public format, or as a private event in your facility. Upcoming SIG Events Marketing SIG Tue, May 11 8:30am Simcoe Muskoka IT SIG Tue, May 11 1:00pm Simcoe Muskoka Growing Out of a Pandemic Tue, May 11 1:30pm National Senior Managers' SIG Wed, May 12 8:30am Simcoe Muskoka Quality Production CI Mfg Eng.SIG Wed, May 12 1:00pm Simcoe Muskoka E, H&S SIG Thu, May 13 10:00am Simcoe Muskoka EMC Food and Beverage Sector Event - Change Management Thu, Jun 3 12:30pm ZOOM Supply Chain SIG Tue, Jun 8 8:30am Simcoe Muskoka IT SIG Tue, Jun 8 1:00pm Simcoe Muskoka Senior Managers' SIG Wed, Jun 9 8:30am Simcoe Muskoka Quality Production CI Mfg Eng.SIG Wed, Jun 9 1:00pm Simcoe Muskoka HR Annual Labour Law Update Thu, Jun 10 1:00pm Simcoe Muskoka EMC Food and Beverage Sector Event - Legislative Update - The Issues Impacting the Food Industry Thu, Dec 2 12:30pm ZOOM Recent Blog Posts Manufacturing Recovery and Support Program - An Ongoing Support Resource Fri, Apr 16 EMC Harvard Supervisory Certificate Program Graduates - Winter 2021 Tue, Apr 6 Building Collaborative Opportunities for Growth Mon, Mar 15 Canada's Safest Employer Awards Wed, Mar 3