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News from Gothia Logistics

2010-07-02

Result of trip to China

We now translate our first course in Mandarin.
We chose our course 5S - Order and method.

2010-06-10

China trip

Our CEO Kjell-Åke Rönnberg is flying to China today for a 10-day trip. There he will meet with customers and prospective customers among Swedish industrial companies that are established in China.

Kjell-Åke will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Kunshan.

2010-04-01

New course: Basic Lean Production

We have now extended our course library with yet another course. The new course is called Basic Lean Production.

The course contains basic information about how to a company can prepare before starting an implementation of the tool Lean Production.

The course takes you through the world of manufacturing companies, from history and background to how the future can be shaped to lead to success with help from Lean Production.

This is a wide course where the participants can develop their knowledge and also lay the foundation for further studies in this sublect.

Read more about the course here >>

2010-03-05

General agreement with Aros Quality Group

Gothia Logistics has entered a general agreement with Aros Quality Group regarding educational and consultancy services.

AQ is one of Sweden’s leading suppliers of components and systems for industrial customers with high demands. They deliver to industries in Sweden but also to export markets.

AQ group includes about 20 manufacturing units in Sweden, China, Estonia, Bulgaria and Italy.

2009-09-25

New course in 5S - order and method

We have once again extended our international course library with a course in 5S. This new course is called 5S – Order and method and is an introductory course to the working method 5S.

Read more about the course 5S - Order and method>>

2009-01-21

New courses in Supply Chain Management

We have developed two new courses in Supply Chain Management, how to manage coordinated information and material flows, plant operations and logistics.

The course Basic Demand Planning deals with how to project aggregate demand for production planning. Read more >>

The course Basic Supply Service deals with how best to organize resources to meet the customer’s needs. Read more >>

2008-12-01

More new courses

We have today released two new courses: Basic Logistics and Introduction to Inventory Management.

Read more about Basic Logistics here >>

Read more about Introduction to Inventory Management here >>

2008-09-01

Extended English course library

Even though we have enjoyed the summer, the sun and the warm weather, we have still managed to create yet another course to our international course library. The course is called Purchasing and Supply and is for you who are working, or are about to start working with purchasing issues, procurement of material, sales etc.

Read more about the course here >>

2008-07-01

New course: Distribution and Logistics

The development department has been working hard here at Gothia Logistics and a few days ago we released yet another course in English. This time the subject is distribution and logistics and pertains to the flow from producer to consumer.

The course is called Distribution and Logistics and is for you, who work with transports, purchasing, distribution and/or inventories.

Read more about the course here >>

2008-06-12

Extended English course library

We’ve now produced yet another course for the English course library. This time the subject deals with logistics and production economy. The course explains and discusses the connection between economy and logistics and the basic terminology used in daily work situations.

Read more about the course here >>

2008-05-22

New course in Purchasing

We’ve now added yet another English course to our course library. The course is called Purchasing and Supplier Planning and is intended for people who are working with purchasing issues, procurement of material, sales, project management, designing specifications of requirement or have a cost responsibility regarding maintenance and supplier contacts.

The course shows how you, as person responsible for daily purchasing decisions, can get a structured grip on the entire purchasing process.

Read more about the course here>>

2008-04-23

Yet another article with Gothia Logistics

The Swedish magazine Perspektiv - ledningssystem och utveckling (nr. 162) has this week mentioned us in one of their articles. The article is about Emba Machinery AB in Örebro, Sweden, the work with Lean Production and the fact that they have used our courses to train their personnel in Lean Production.

Read more about our courses in Lean Production>>

2008-04-22

Global education project

We have now signed a general agreement with a global multinational company with the purpose to organize an education project for their personnel. The education will deal with the subject Supply Chain Management and will include subjects such as purchase, production and distribution. The course material will be translated into a number of languages depending on the students’ whereabouts.

2008-04-07

New product - Education Subscription

We can now offer you education at a fixed cost, no matter how much your staff studies. The courses in this new developed system are short intensive courses (2-5 study hours) and are perfect for studies during unplanned and planned production interruptions.

Thanks to this new system, your employees can study whenever they want, as much and as often as they want. The courses are always available online in order to turn non-productive time into effective education.

Does this sound like an excellent way to further educate your employees? Please, contact us so that we can discuss your needs and put together a course library that suits your company.

Read more about Education Subscription>>

2008-04-03

New student follow-up system

In order to improve the contact with our students, and to support our student in the best possible way, we have developed a new student follow-up system.

The system detects student that for example have difficulties maintaining a regular study routine, who use a questionable study technique or if someone is in need of extra support in their training.

The system also lets us know if a student has done an excellent job in the first part of the course so that we can send him/her a message with some extra praise.

Thanks to this system we can coach all of our students, the ones who need extra support but also the ones who manage on their own. Through the system we can support the students either in their course book, by sending them an email or simply by calling them and asking how they are doing.

The purpose of the system is to help as many as possible to pass their courses. This proves that studying over the internet does not have to mean that you have to make it on your own.

2008-03-05

The magazine Perspektiv writes about us

The Swedish magazine Perspektiv - ledningssystem och utveckling (nr. 161) has this week publiced an article about us and our educations. The article discusses our work with Lean Production through e-learning, development work and networks.

Read more about our courses in Lean Production>>

2008-02-15

Article about us in Inköp & Logistik

The Swedish magazine Inköp & Logistik has this week published an article about us and our e-learning courses. The article also brings up our cooperation with Alfa Laval and how personnel from their factories all around the world have studied our e-learning courses.

Read more about our courses >>

2007-12-21

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Christmas is approaching and we’re closing the office to celebrate Christmas. We’ll return on January 2nd.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

2007-11-05

Article about us in Dagens Industri

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri will this week publish an article about us and our work with Lean Production in their supplement that deals with the subject of Lean Production. The article also brings up the experiences that Metso Minerals in Trelleborg have concerning the cooperation with us and how their factory has drawn profits from educating their personnel in 5S and Lean.

Read more about our educations in Lean Production>>

2007-10-23

Ericsson studies course in materials flow

Ericsson in Katrineholm, Sweden has just begun studying a customized course in materials flow and warehousing. Thanks to our flexible system, we have developed a unique course, which is composed by different parts of our existing courses in order to suit Ericsson’s demand and wishes. We wish our students at Ericsson good luck with their studies.

Read more about how we customize courses >>

2007-09-26

Gothia celebrates 15 year anniversary

This year Gothia Logistics is celebrating its 15th anniversary. This means that we have now worked with organizational development and education in logistics since 1992 and have over 15 years of experience.

During the last 10 years we have also put focus on developing the modern training method e-learning. Nowadays, more and more companies have realized that by using studies over the internet they can make their organization more efficient and at the same time develop their personnel.

2007-09-07

New Subscription courses

We have now extended our course library with seven new Subscription courses. The various courses deal with the subjects Production logistics and Warehouse and distribution.

This method has been created in order for companies to be able to utilize down time, for example when experiencing production malfunction or other interruptions of operations. These courses comprise 2-3 hours of studying.

Read more about our Subscription courses >>

2007-08-21

ITT Flygt learns Lean

ITT Flygt in Emmaboda, Sweden has just begun studying a customized course in Lean Production. The course has been adjusted to fit their needs and wishes and includes company-specific information as well as their own material. We wish our students at ITT Flygt good luck with their studies.

Read more about our course in Lean Production >>

2007-08-13

We welcome Johanna

We welcome our new co-worker Johanna Wieselgren. She will mainly work with developing and maintaining our courses.

2007-07-30

Lean Production Education for Ericsson

During this spring and summer Ericsson in Katrineholm have started an education project with our Swedish course in Lean Production for the main part of their staff. By the end of July the first hundred of these students have finished the course and received their course certificates. We wish the rest and future Ericsson students good luck. You can read about our English course Introduction to Lean Production here >>

2007-07-16

New Course for Alfa Laval

We have, during this spring, finished another company specific education for Alfa Laval. This time it is an English course in Global Purchasing. The course is now deployed and the first students in Sweden, Denmark, UK, USA and India have started there studies. You can read about our standard courses in Purchasing here. >>

2007-05-15

We welcome Maria

We welcome our new co-worker Maria Jonsson. She will mainly work with customer contacts and student coaching.

2007-04-10

New course in Lean Production

We have now extended our course library and added another course in Lean Production. The course is called Introduction to Lean Production and is a short introductory course in the methods and pronciples concerning Lean Production

Read more about the course Introduction to Lean Production >>

2007-03-30

We’re changing our name

We’re now changing our name back to Gothia Logistics AB. In connection to this change of name we also give our home page a new look. However, the name Instant education is kept as the name for our education platform.

The reason for the change of name is to clarify our work with organizational development and logistics.

Read more about Gothia Logistics' history here >>

2007-03-29

New homepage

In connection with the name change, we have also made some changes to our home page. Besides graphical improvements and improvements in content, the big news is that our course library is now generated directly from our database. Thanks to this new function, our courses will always be up to date and include the latest information.

2007-02-05

Customized Production Techniques

In the beginning of this year we started working on a customized variation of the course Production Techniques for Alfa Laval in Lund, Sweden. Alfa Laval wanted the course to contain information and material about the Lean Production philosophy and working with Six Sigma.

Read more about how we work with Customized Courses>>

2007-01-29

Lean Production Education at Ericsson

We have started an extensive education program for Ericsson AB in Sweden. The purpose of the education is to give the company’s employees a mutual knowledge about Lean production in an efficient and easy way.

Read more about our e-learning course Introduction to Lean Production >>

2007-01-10

E-learning in Russia

In the end of last year we talked to Uponor in Moscow, Russia. They had heard about our education projects with Alfa Laval and wanted a similar education in Inventory Management. Course start was held over the phone and internet in the beginning of 2007.

Read more about our e-learning course Inventory Management >>

2006-11-20

Customized Course in Purchasing

Together with Alfa Laval, we have developed a variation of the course International Purchasing, which will be studied worldwide within Alfa Laval. The course includes customized material from Alfa Laval’s organization and fits their needs and wishes.

Read more about how we work with Customized Courses >>

2006-11-13

New Course in Supply and Distribution

We have yet again expanded our international course library. The newest course is called Physical Supply and Distribution and discusses what happens during the transportation of goods – from the beginning of the process until the end; from subcontractor to end consumer.

Read more about Physical Supply and Distribution >>

2006-08-21

Alfa Laval University Technical Faculty

Our international courses are now part of Alfa Laval’s program for further training - Alfa Laval Technical Faculty. Alfa Laval has also decided to use our company-adjusted educational solution called Instant Academy. By using this solution, the courses are integrated in their intranet in order to function as smoothly as possible.

Read more about how such a solution can facilitate your studies under Instant Academy >>

2005-10-13

New course – Lean Production

Our newest addition to our course library is a short, intensive course in Lean Production called Lean Production – introduction. Read more about this course in our Course Library