Association for Manufacturing Excellence

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Founded in 1985, under the direction of Lee Sage, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) is a not-for-profit association helping manufacturers in the pursuit of excellence through the facilitation of practitioner-to-practitioner learning. Providing valuable tools and programs such as Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, and other Lean initiatives. The AME provides hands-on events and workshops from practitioners who want to share their experience.

The AME currently operates in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia with over 5000 members.

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The AME holds an annual conference featuring workshops, presentations, tours and keynote speakers.

Conference locations: 2010 - Baltimore, Maryland 2009 - Covington, Kentucky 2008 - Toronto, Ontario

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