Running a Competitive Manufacturing Business in Louisiana
Feb
24
2026
Tue, Feb 24 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Online
Facilitated by LSBDC at McNeese State University: Main Office
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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