Training Courses

All courses with links are open to the public. Click on a specific course and you will be connected to that course page on Georgia Tech’s Professional Education Web site, where there is information on the course, including dates, pricing, and registration.

In addition to the open enrollment offerings, all of the below courses can be brought to your facility to train your team. For more information about bringing a course to your facility, contact your regional manager or:

Tim Israel – Lean/Process Improvement and Quality Management courses
Bill Meffert – Energy Management and Sustainability courses
Don Pital – Strategic Business Development and Product Development courses

Strategic Business Development

Currently there are no training courses available

Lean / Process Improvement

Jump-Starting your Lean Effort: An Overview and Live Simulation of Lean Manufacturing – Gain a competitive edge by transforming your business into a Lean enterprise
Lean Boot Camp: Training a Lean Champion – Learn to apply Lean principles to positively impact profit, lead time, quality, and customer service
5S Workplace Organization – Learn to reduce accidents, improve efficiency and quality, and gain better workplace control
Lean Office and Administration – Identify improvements needed in administrative processes and immediately implement solutions
Lean Management and Tools for Manufacturing, Office, Healthcare, and Government/Education Sector (online course) – Tighten the way you do business and gain results you can see in your bottom line
Lean Overview and Simulation for Healthcare – Gain an understanding of the concepts, methods and approaches of a Lean management system and how they apply to healthcare
Lean Healthcare Training – How to Apply Lean Thinking to Healthcare Organizations – Learn to apply Lean principles to your healthcare organization
Lean for Healthcare: Turnover Time Reduction – Learn to apply Lean concepts to reduce the amount of time required to “change over” a resource
Setup Reduction/Changeover – Get the tools needed to quickly and efficiently set-up your machines
Lean Overview – Gain an understanding of the Lean tools and the eight wastes, as well as experience a simulation which illustrates how Lean works
Value Stream Mapping – Learn the tools and how to create current and future state maps to help guide your improvement efforts

Sustainability

Exploring ISO 14001 (online course) – Learn what you need to do at your organization to put an environmental management system in place and get registered
ISO 14001:2004 EMS Lead Auditor Training – Approach ISO 14001:2004 registration from an auditor’s point of view
Understanding OHSAS 18001 – Get the tools necessary to integrate a formalized health and safety initiative within your organization
Understanding ISO 14001 – Learn what is required and how to implement ISO 14001 in your manufacturing plant
Exploring Your Environmental Footprint: A Common Sense Approach to Environmental Aspects and Impacts – Learn to identify environmental aspects, determine and evaluate their impacts, and avoid common pitfalls
EMS: Making the System Connections – Develop the connections between your environmental planning results and additional areas of your environmental management system
Internal Auditing for ISO 14001 – Learn to implement an internal auditing process throughout your organization

Energy Management

Understanding ISO 50001 – Learn what is required and how to implement ISO 50001 in your manufacturing plant
Internal Auditing for ISO 50001 – Learn to implement an internal auditing process throughout your organization
ISO 50001:2011 Lead Auditor Training – Learn to approach ISO 50001 registration from an auditor’s point of view
Energy Performance for ISO 50001 Auditors – Learn the techniques to audit energy performance within an organization
Certified Practitioner in Energy Management Systems – Acquire the skills to help organizations become certified to Superior Energy Performance
Superior Energy Performance Lead Auditor – Learn to approach Superior Energy Performance from an auditor’s point of view
Superior Energy Performance Verifier – Acquire the statistical skills and knowledge to verify energy performance as it relates to the Superior Energy Performance program

Quality Management

ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor Training – Learn to approach ISO 9001 registration from an auditor’s point of view
ISO 9001:2008 Internal Quality Auditing – Learn to implement an internal auditing process throughout your organization
Root Cause Analysis – Get to the root of your company’s recurring problems and learn to identify, evaluate, and implement optimum solutions
Understanding ISO 13485: Quality Management for Medical Devices – Learn what is required and how to implement ISO 13485 in your manufacturing plant
Executive Introduction to ISO 9001 (online course) – Gain an overview of ISO 9001, examine the requirements of the standard, and receive information on registration
AS 9101 – Learn about the requirements within an aerospace quality management system and what to expect during an audit
TL 9001 – Learn about the quality system requirements for telecommunications suppliers and how these are audited
ISO/TS 16949 (includes training on APQP, FMEA, PPAP, MSA, and SPC) – Learn to develop a quality management system as it relates to the automotive industry
ISO/IEC 17025 – Learn the requirements needed to be registered to ISO 17025, the quality management standard used by testing and calibration laboratories
Food Safety Training (includes training on ISO 22001, HACCP, and cGMP) – Learn how to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption