UPCOMING EVENT: 11/06/2025 – Lean Learning Tour: Fluke Corporation Plant Tour

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Be a part of AME Seattle Consortium

Is your company located in the Seattle area and committed to continuous improvement?

Join the AME Seattle Consortium today and become part of a collaborative learning network of local companies that are committed to performance excellence and collaborative learning. Consortium membership is open to companies from any industry (manufacturing, health care, financial services, software, distribution, information technology, and more) in the Seattle area with a desire to share and learn to become part of this practitioner-to-practitioner network.

Leverage collective resources and knowledge and improve your approach to improvement!

Our Vision

Build an engaging professional community that drives enterprise excellence.

Our Mission

To advance operational excellence by fostering continuous learning, applying lean principles across all sectors, and empowering the next generation of lean leaders.

Upcoming Events

Event List

Key Event Highlights

Lean Learning Tour: Fluke Corporation Plant Tour

Date/time: 01:00 - 05:00pm on 11/6/2025
Target learning area: visual management, tiered accountability process, daily kaizen activities
Key production process: assembly process, molding, distribution
Industry/product: test, measurement and monitoring products and software that are used in electronic design, manufacturing, and network troubleshooting, as well as in electrical, industrial, medical, process and calibration applications.

Lean Learning Webinar: Developing Your Leaders Every Day Through an ALL Leadership Huddle

Speaker: Katherine Reyes
Date/time: 09:00 - 10:00am PT on 11/4/2025
Key audience: Operational leaders at all levels, including C-suite
Key takeaways: How 30 minutes per day can develop lean leaders, create value for the organization and result in consistent organizational-wide transformation

Lean Learning Webinar: Understanding Customers - The Unique Way to Study Customers During Product Development

Speaker: Larry Navarre
Date/time: 01:00 - 02:00am PT on 11/17/2025
Key audience: New product development executives and leaders, R&D executive and leaders, operational executives and leaders; engineering practitioners and their organizational collaborators, in organizations that seek to apply principles of innovation excellence in organizations practicing operational excellence
Key takeaways: why development is so difficult to do well and with high reliability; LPPD is quite different than typical NPD with its emphasis on learning first, followed by design; LPPD applies lean principles in a toolset that is different from lean manufacturing; an introduction to several of the first principles of LPPD

Future events

11/04/2025 – Lean Learning Webinar: Developing Your Leaders Every Day Through An All Leadership Huddle - Virtual
11/05/2025 – Seattle Consortium Monthly Board Meeting - Virtual (by invite only)
11/06/2025 – Lean Learning Tour: Fluke Corporation - In Person
11/17/2025 – Lean Learning Webinar: LPPD: Understand Customers: The Unique Way that Lean Enterprises Study Customers Intensively During Product Development by Larry Navarre - Webinar
11/21/2025 – Lean Learning Workshop: Building Positive Relations with TWI Job Relations - Contact us for more information
10/26 - 10/29/2026 – AME Milwaukee 2026 Conference - In Person & Virtual

Company Tours

Fluke Corporation Tour

November 11

AME International Conference

AGENDA: TBD

The AME International Conference returns in Milwaukee in 2026!

At AME Milwaukee 2026, we embrace a "yes/and" approach to enterprise excellence. Learn how innovative organizations are using technology to elevate — not replace — people. Discover how they're creating sustainable systems that serve customers, employees, communities and the environment.

Experience operational excellence in action through local tours. Connect in hands-on sessions, interactive workshops and networking events. Be inspired by visionary keynote speakers and leave with ideas you can apply right away. Share, learn and grow with us in Milwaukee at the AME International Conference!

Join us Monday, October 26 – Thursday, October 29, 2026, at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the 42nd annual AME International Conference. Designed by practitioners, for practitioners, this global gathering brings together continuous improvement professionals from every industry and at every level — from the front office to the front lines.

For an introduction to the AME Seattle Consortiums benefits, offerings and more. Contact Ryan Zeng, AME Seattle Consortium Executive Director, at Ryan@AMESeattle.Org or 206-228-9122.

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