Running a Competitive Manufacturing Business in Louisiana

Feb
24
2026
Tue, Feb 24 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Topic: Managing a Business

Louisiana manufacturers face increasing pressure from global competition, workforce shortages, supply chain disruption, aging assets, and exposure to natural disasters. This executive-level training equips manufacturing leaders with proven frameworks to strengthen operational performance, reduce risk, and improve productivity.

Focused on practical execution—not theory—this course helps manufacturers improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and growth simultaneously.

Participants will gain a clear, actionable understanding of how to:

  • Identify and mitigate operational risks that threaten safety, uptime, and profitability
  • Detect and eliminate true productivity bottlenecks that limit throughput
  • Apply Lean manufacturing fundamentals to improve efficiency and performance
  • Strengthen workforce capability and frontline leadership
  • Improve supply chain resilience and supplier performance
  • Use data, metrics, and dashboards to support better decision-making
  • Evaluate Industry 4.0 technologies with a clear return-on-investment focus
  • Build a practical executive action roadmap for sustained performance

Speaker(s): Baxter Saucier, Operations Director at Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana

Co-Sponsor(s): SBA, LED, and MSU


Fee: No Cost

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