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Q3 Classes | 2025

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United States

12 AUG 2025 to 15 AUG 2025

Red X Apprentice - Product Performance
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Dates: 12 Aug 2025 – 15 Aug 2025
Time : 8:00 AM – 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time (North America)

Boost reliability and reduce warranty costs with Red X Product Performance Apprentice. Learn to troubleshoot full assemblies and systems—whether during design validation or after production—by tackling Malfunction and Destructive Event problems with tailored and proven strategies. Develop expertise in measurement system analysis, confirmation testing, tolerancing, and corrective action tracking to design more robust, failure-resistant products.

Ideal for engineers focused on product design, validation, and warranty failure resolution.

19 Aug 2025 to 22 AUG 2025

Red X Apprentice - Manufacturing Performance
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Dates: 19 Aug 2025 to 22 Aug 2025
Time : 9:00 AM – 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Matt Peterson

Having repeat failures that cause scrap? What about defects causing shipping delays? Red X Manufacturing Performance Apprentices (RXMPAs) gain experience using tools to help uncover the hidden causes that keep producing errors. Solve problems once and for all.

23 Apr 2025 to 25 Apr 2025

Red X Reliability
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Dates: 23 Apr 2025 to 25 Apr 2025
Time : 8:00 AM – 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Instructor: John Abrahamian

Where did the reliability problem originate? That’s the first focus of the Red X Reliability course. Focusing on the patterns of failure to set the strategy for resolution. Students learn advanced reliability strategies, how to address no trouble found situations, accelerated testing strategies, how to address fatigue failures, and much more.

15 SEP 2025 to 18 SEP 2025

Red X Journeyman
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Dates: 15 Sep 2025 to 18 Sep 2025
Time : 8:00 AM – 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Tim Hudgens

Ready to level up? Take your problem solving skills to the next level with advanced tools and techniques to drill down to and confirm the root cause of hidden cause problems in your manufacturing operations. Learn when and how to implement designed experiments, how to establish tolerances based on results, and much more.

20 May 2025 to 22 May 2025

Transaxional Apprentice
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Dates: 20 May 2025 to 22 May 2025
Time : 8:30 AM – 12:30pm Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Matthew Peterson

Do you have a logistics, HR, accounting, or purchasing process that isn’t performing like it should? TransaXional Apprentices learn a strategic framework to zero in on hidden causes of process failures. Then, they will implement corrective actions to fully resolve the errors.

17 Jun 2025 to 18 JUN 2025

Transaxional Journeyman
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Dates: 17 June 2025 to 18 June 2025
Time : 8:30 AM – 12:30pm Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Matthew Peterson

Enhance your productivity and efficiency with business process optimizations. As a TransaXional Journeyman, students learn additional features of function modeling to enable them to analyze and optimize more complex systems as well as integrate them with process and value stream maps.

06 May 2025 to 09 MAY 2025

Red X Master
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Dates: 06 May 2025 to 09 May 2025
Time : 9:00 AM – 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Matthew Peterson

Coaching requires skills beyond problem solving. Specifically, a coach must become reflectively competent. During this course, participants develop a deeper understanding of both the application of advanced problem-solving tools and strategies as well as the skills needed to coach and develop other problem solvers. This is the final course in the certification pathway.

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Mexico

22 JUL 2025 to 25 Jul 2025

Red X Apprentice - Manufacturing Performance
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Dates: 22 Jul 2025 to 25 Jul 2025
Time : 8:00 AM – 2:00pm Central Time (North America)
Language: Spanish (MX)

Having repeat failures that cause scrap? What about defects causing shipping delays? Red X Manufacturing Performance Apprentices (RXMPAs) gain experience using tools to help uncover the hidden causes that keep producing errors. Solve problems once and for all.

20 Aug 2025 to 21 Aug 2025

Transaxional Apprentice
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Dates: 20 Aug 2025 to 21 Aug 2025
Time : TBD
Format: TBD
Instructor: Sergio Lizarraga
Language: Spanish (MX)

Do you have a logistics, HR, accounting, or purchasing process that isn’t performing like it should? TransaXional Apprentices learn a strategic framework to zero in on hidden causes of process failures. Then, they will implement corrective actions to fully resolve the errors.

17 Jun 2025 to 20 Jun 2025

Red X Journeyman
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Dates: 17 June 2025 to 20 June 2025
Time : 8:00 AM – 2:00pm Central Standard Time (North America)
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Ernesto Rascon
Language: Spanish (MX)

Ready to level up? Take your problem solving skills to the next level with advanced tools and techniques to drill down to and confirm the root cause of hidden cause problems in your manufacturing operations. Learn when and how to implement designed experiments, how to establish tolerances based on results, and much more.

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Europe

07 Jul 2025 to 10 Jul 2025

Red X Apprentice - Manufacturing Performance
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Dates: 07 Jul 2025 to 10 Jul 2025
Time : TBD
Format: Virtual
Instructor:
Language: German

Having repeat failures that cause scrap? What about defects causing shipping delays? Red X Manufacturing Performance Apprentices (RXMPAs) gain experience using tools to help uncover the hidden causes that keep producing errors. Solve problems once and for all.

21 Jul 2025 to 24 Jul 2025

Red X Apprentice - Manufacturing Performance
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Dates: 21 Jul 2025 to 24 Jul 2025
Time : TBD
Format: Virtual
Instructor:
Language: English

Having repeat failures that cause scrap? What about defects causing shipping delays? Red X Manufacturing Performance Apprentices (RXMPAs) gain experience using tools to help uncover the hidden causes that keep producing errors. Solve problems once and for all.

02 Jun 2025 to 05 Jun 2025

Red X Apprentice: Product Performance
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Dates: 02 June 2025 – 05 June 2025
Time : 8:00 AM – 2:00pm CET
Language: English
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Patrick Goden-Leydecker

Boost reliability and reduce warranty costs with Red X Product Performance Apprentice. Learn to troubleshoot full assemblies and systems—whether during design validation or after production—by tackling Malfunction and Destructive Event problems with tailored and proven strategies. Develop expertise in measurement system analysis, confirmation testing, tolerancing, and corrective action tracking to design more robust, failure-resistant products.

Ideal for engineers focused on product design, validation, and warranty failure resolution.

16 Sep 2025 to 18 Sep 2025

Red X Journeyman
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Dates: 16 Sep 2025 to 18 Sep 2025
Time: TBD
Format: Virtual
Language: French
Instructor: 

Ready to level up? Take your problem solving skills to the next level with advanced tools and techniques to drill down to and confirm the root cause of hidden cause problems in your manufacturing operations. Learn when and how to implement designed experiments, how to establish tolerances based on results, and much more.

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China

We have no pre-scheduled classes for this region in the coming quarter. 

21 Apr 2025 - 23 Apr 2025

Red X Apprentice - Manufacturing Performance
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Dates: 21 Apr 2025 – 23 Apr 2025
Time : 9:00 AM – 3:00pm China Standard Time
Language: Chinese (Simplified)
Location: Hangzhou
Format: Face to Face
Instructor: Derek Bian and Jay Zhu

Having repeat failures that cause scrap? What about defects causing shipping delays? Red X Manufacturing Performance Apprentices (RXMPAs) gain experience using tools to help uncover the hidden causes that keep producing errors. Solve problems once and for all.

15 APR 2025 to 18 Apr 2025

Red X Journeyman
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Dates: 15 Apr 2025 to 18 Apr 2025
Time: 9:00 AM China Standard Time
Format: Face to Face
Location: Wuxi
Language: Chinese (Simplified)
Instructor: Derek Bian and Jay Zhu

Ready to level up? Take your problem solving skills to the next level with advanced tools and techniques to drill down to and confirm the root cause of hidden cause problems in your manufacturing operations. Learn when and how to implement designed experiments, how to establish tolerances based on results, and much more.

17 Jun 2025 - 19 Jun 2025

Red X Apprentice - Manufacturing Performance
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Dates: 17 Jun 2025 – 19 Jun 2025
Time : 9:00 AM – 3:00pm China Standard Time
Language: Chinese (Simplified)
Location: Hangzhou
Format: Face to Face
Instructor: Derek Bian and Jay Zhu

Having repeat failures that cause scrap? What about defects causing shipping delays? Red X Manufacturing Performance Apprentices (RXMPAs) gain experience using tools to help uncover the hidden causes that keep producing errors. Solve problems once and for all.

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Brazil

15 Apr 2025 to 17 Apr 2025

Red X Apprentice: Manufacturing Performance
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Dates: 15 Apr 2025 – 17 Apr 2025
Time : 8:00 AM – 2:00pm Brasilia Time
Language: Portuguese
Format: Virtual
Instructor: Rafael Cardoso

Master the fundamentals of Red X Problem Solving to solve faster and with greater accuracy. Gain the skills to quickly isolate dominant causes in your manufacturing processes. This course equips engineers with proven strategies to address Feature, Property, Defect, and Malfunction Event problems, enhance measurement system analysis, implement confirmation testing, and drive corrective actions with confidence.

Designed for engineers in manufacturing environments, this course helps you solve technical issues in assemblies and components efficiently.

08 Jul 2025 to 11 Jul 2025

Red X Journeyman
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Dates: 08 Jul 2025 to 11 Jul 2025
Time: 8:00 AM-2:00 PM (Brasilia)
Format: Virtual
Language: Portuguese
Instructor: Rafael Cardoso

Ready to level up? Take your problem solving skills to the next level with advanced tools and techniques to drill down to and confirm the root cause of hidden cause problems in your manufacturing operations. Learn when and how to implement designed experiments, how to establish tolerances based on results, and much more.

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Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

TRANSAXIONAL® BUSINESS
PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Business processes deliver critical functions. But sometimes processes break, and the root cause is not clear. TransaXional® Business Projects focus on what must go right in a process for it to deliver the desired result every time.  The  TransaXional® Business Project of the Year Award recognizes projects that focus on process-based problems. Projects that win this award will demonstrate:

  • The impact of the problem on the company and the team. 
  • The use of the DETAIL™ project format.
  • Creative & effective use of the Shainin TransaXional® tools.
  • The timeline of resolution from initial discovery through project closure.
  • Explanation of how to leverage and implement project results.

Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

RESILIENT ENGINEERING®
PROJECT OF THE YEAR

The goal in a new product or process development is a trouble-free launch. Resilient Engineering® focuses on the critical factors that must go right in the product design and manufacturing process. The Resilient Engineering® Project of the Year Award recognizes projects that focus on what must go right to ensure a successful launch. Projects that win this award will demonstrate:  

  • Critical factor identification in the design phase.
  • Prioritization of the high-risk functions to focus on.
  • Development of function models linking the high-risk functions to critical input features, properties, and parameters.
  • Potential or perceived impact for the customer, the company, and the production line.
  • Effective use of the Shainin Resilient Engineering® tools to identify, prioritize, design, test, and control the critical factors.
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John Abrahamian

Executive VP - Problem Solving

John Abrahamian is a highly respected problem solver as well as an expert in the field of Lean manufacturing, with a career spanning over three decades. Throughout his career, John has become renowned for his innovative approach to problem-solving and his unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction. 
  
After receiving his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1985, John began his career as a design and development engineer at Pratt & Whitney. It was during this time that his interest in problem-solving first emerged. By 1994, John had become a Continuous Improvement Manager at the company. During his tenure, John led Pratt & Whitney’s efforts in Lean manufacturing and Value Engineering. 
  
In 1990, John began pursuing his MBA in Operations Management, where he was first introduced to the concept of Lean manufacturing, and this influenced the direction of his career. In 1996, he was encouraged by his Pratt & Whitney team to take Shainin Red X training, building on his Lean manufacturing efforts. This training proved to be a turning point in John’s career, igniting his passion for problem-solving and setting him on a path to becoming one of the industry’s most respected experts. 
  
In 1998, John joined Shainin, where he has spent the last 25 years pursuing his passion for problem-solving. During his time here, John has developed innovative approaches to problem-solving, having received a US Patent for a problem-solving method. He also integrated function analysis into Shainin methods, seeding what would ultimately become Resilient Engineering.  
  
Despite his busy schedule, John still finds time to pursue his hobbies, which include golfing, stand-up paddleboarding, and skeet shooting. He especially enjoys traveling with his wife and spending time with family, including his three grandsons. 
  
Having the opportunity to work in a wide variety of industries, experiencing different cultures and meeting new and interesting people gives John the kind of job satisfaction that makes him grateful to be in this field of work. He truly enjoys creating meaningful relationships with his customers and inspiring ordinary engineers to become extraordinary problem solvers. 

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Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

This category of awards is for project teams who have demonstrated outstanding application of Shainin methodologies in solving complex problems within their company.

To be considered for this award, the submission must meet the following criteria:

  • Speed and efficiency of the problem solved
  • Technical difficulty and complexity of the problem solved
  • Project impact and leverage across the organization
  • Creative use of Shainin technologies
  • Clarity of the project documentation