Medtronic Neurological Technologies

Medtronic Inc. is the world's leading medical technology company that manufactures and distributes powered surgical equipment to support surgeons throughout the world. This organization has accelerated its lean journey by focusing on employee empowerment and creating a continuous improvement culture. Learn how Medtronic built the critical foundation for their remarkable lean transformation which has resulted in a must-see deployment of lean tools and practices. On this tour you will see: visual management systems – rapid improvement techniques, value stream mapping, 6S, lean flow cells, kanban systems, team empowerment, heijunka boxes, factory certified exchange process, and high mix-low volume manufacturing cells.

Raytheon Lemmon Avenue Manufacturing Center

The Raytheon Lemmon Avenue manufacturing center is a high-mix, low-volume machining center. This lean supplier has built its success around an empowered team-based culture focused on continuous improvement. On this tour, you will see how this empowered culture has implemented lean tools, including the design for manufacturability and Raytheon Six Sigma, supported by metrics that link to all aspects of the business. Please note: The rules for DoD access to this site by non U.S. citizens have become tighter in recent months. All those on this tour must be pre-registered two weeks prior and have government identification with them. No cameras or cell phones with cameras allowed. Dress code requires no shorts or open-toed shoes.

Raytheon McKinney

Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS), headquartered in McKinney, produces mission solutions for networking, command and control, battlespace awareness and air traffic control management. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) is a leading provider of sensor systems, giving our warfighters the most accurate and timely information available for the network-centric battlefield. On this tour, you will see Raytheon Six Sigma TM integrated into the Raytheon culture as the way to use data to drive change and improve the business lean principles taught and deployed throughout Raytheon visual workplace, takt, WIP control, kanban, and pull systems in various stages of deployment on high-mix, low-volume, state-of-the-art products.