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Tour

X Underwriters Laboratories (UL)

Tour Code: TT-07
Day and Time: Bus leaves 9:00 AM, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
Length Including Travel Time: 6 hours

Tour Code: WT-06
Day and Time: Bus leaves 9:00 AM, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012
Length Including Travel Time: 6 hours

Cultural Revolution in a 100+ Year Engineering Services Firm

Not your grandfather’s product safety testing lab

On this tour, you will see how senior leadership has established a compelling vision for change at UL, a 118-year-old engineering services-based company. Today, UL's front-line managers are creating an environment of learning and coaching that drives continuous improvement every day. The tour will highlight changes in the company's product safety testing business and show you how UL is attempting to move away from primarily project-based continuous improvement to embedding continuous improvement into the way it operates every day.

UL has been implementing lean for seven years, and during this tour you will see just how much that journey has changed them.

X Underwriters Laboratories (UL)

UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: product safety, environment, life & health, knowledge services and verification services. Its mission statement is: Working for a safer world since 1894.

Joshua Ebert

Joshua Ebert has spent 20 years working in various roles at UL, including as laboratory technician, engineer, principal engineer, engineering manager and lean sigma program manager. In his current role, Joshua leads an internal team that seeks to facilitate the transfer of lean sigma knowledge, promote continuous learning within the organization and partner with each of the business units in applying lean sigma thinking to achieve the desired business objectives.

  • No competitors allowed
  • Leather-like closed toe shoes must be worn


Please come to the Tours Registration Desk on the 4th Floor to sign up


Intermediate