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Whatever your organization's operational, quality or growth challenges are, Auburn works to help your organization improve its competitiveness, increase efficiency, explore market expansions and gain business improvement.


Auburn Technical Assistance Center (ATAC) is how Auburn works in these areas. Through hands-on partnerships with its clients in manufacturing, business, government and non-profit organizations, ATAC provides nationally recognized assistance, training and education in the key service areas of:


Rapid changes in a global economy dictate that businesses and organizations improve and innovate. As Alabama's first university assistance for existing industry, ATAC is a business consultant and training group that helps manufacturers and service industries improve their performance utilizing the expertise and resources of Auburn University. Since 1976, ATAC has served thousands of manufacturers and organizations.

For more than three decades, our project work has been recognized by the National Association of Management and Technical Assistance Centers and the Southern Growth Policies Board.


Our business consultant expertise is in Lean Manufacturing training and implementation, Six Sigma training and assistance, business growth, and community festival development. We are an affiliate of the Alabama Technology Network and an Economic Development Administration University Center. As an arm of the Auburn University College of Business Outreach program, ATAC provides business and technical assistance, customized instruction, and consultation in implementing value-added strategies to manufacturers and other businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies in Alabama and the Southeast.

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Six Sigma Green Belt #2 at Auburn, AL

July 8, 2013 at 8am to August 15, 2013 at 5pm
Six Sigma training creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization who are experts in statistical process control and improvement methods. The training consists of lectures, exercises, and team-learning competitions. There is no project for Green Belt. The course follows the five-phase DMAIC approach. Students learn how to first DEFINE opportunities. The next step is to MEASURE the performance of the process. The third phase is how to ANALYZE the opportunity, and seek out the…See More
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CLASS CLOSED: NFPA 70E Electrical Arc Flash Safety at Auburn Center for Developing Industries Building

June 28, 2013 from 8am to 12pm
NFPA 70E - Fundamentals Training CourseWhat You will Learn:Employees will understand the purpose of the new 2012 standard and why it is important from OSHA’s perspective. Topics addressed include: basic electrical principles and safety, general electrical hazards, OSHA regulations, LOTO principles, electrically safe work conditions, energized electrical permits, and safety program requirements. Also included is a discussion of electrical arcs and their associated hazards, an overview of shock…See More
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SPECIAL EVENT -- Lean Healthcare Certificate Series, Montgomery, AL; (Special Event Discount: PAY FULL PRICE FOR ONE SEAT AND GET A SECOND AT HALF OFF!) at Jackson Hospital -Goode Building 11th Floor Training Rooms

June 11, 2013 at 8am to June 14, 2013 at 12pm
20% DISCOUNT TO FIRST 6 REGISTRATIONS!Healthcare systems need to eliminate anything that does not add value to the customer (the patient). Lean management focuses on standardization and improving processes and reducing or eliminating waste and unnecessary activities, motion, or waiting. Lean management's techniques are elegantly simple to understand. But putting them into practice takes perseverance. Our Lean Healthcare Certificate Series is an intense 4-day course that covers the Lean tools…See More
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ATAC NEWS: ATAC AWARDED EDA UNIVERSITY CENTER GRANT

Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:42am 0 Comments

The Auburn Technical Assistance Center (ATAC), an outreach arm of Auburn University’s College of Business, has been re-funded as Auburn University’s EDA University Center. The designation carries a $129,000 operating grant, which ATAC is required to match up to $100,000 through its outreach services.

EDA-funded University Centers conduct applied research, provide technical assistance to public and private-sector organizations, and conduct other activities with the goal of enhancing…

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ATAC NEWS: ATAC's David Mixson to talk 'innovation' to Mobile manufacturers

Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:22am 0 Comments

 

David Mixson of the Auburn Technical Assistance Center (ATAC) is the guest speaker for the Business Retention and Expansion Committee meeting Aug. 14 in Mobile.

Mixson, one of the trained "Innovation Engineering" facilitators with the Alabama Technology Network (ATN), of which ATAC is a member center, will…

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Baldwin County set for Lean treatment

Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:08pm 0 Comments

Baldwin County Lean Government

 

Published: Friday, January 27, 2012, 8:21 AM

Connie Baggett, Press-Register
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Lean program helps Gulf Shores save money

Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:04pm 0 Comments

Gulf Shores Lean Government

 

BY JOHN MULLEN

theislander@gulfcoastnewspapers.com | Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:00 am

GULF SHORES, Ala. – David Peleschak had seen this before. Or at least he thought he had.

The city had signed up for a nine-class program called the…

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