The trip to the AAMA quarterly meeting on the 2/29/08 was an interesting occasion. Upon arriving at 9a.m. we sat in a workshop to listen to some of Alabama's top manufacturers talk about how they had instituted lean within their organizations. Lean is a process in which the an orginization tries to get rid of the non-value added processes in the dialy routine. The key note speakers for the event included representitives from Lear a company in Montgomery, ZF a compnay that supplies chasis for Mercedes in Huntsville, and several others. The second half of the day was spent at a luncheon where a key note speaker talked about site selection for the large automotive makers. His speach was extremely informational, there are so many aspects of the site selection that a normal person would never think about. Overall the trip was very interesting, and I'm sure that other students will enjoy the opportunity to go to the AAMA meetings in the future.
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