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Workshops

In the afternoon you will be able to get hands on practical advice during our three workshops. The profiles and breakdown of the individual workshop content is provided below.

Sponsors:
DAK Consulting
PP Business Improvement
Productivity Europe
Works Management
Craig Wood

3MCraig Wood
Operational Development & Technical Manager
3M SPSL

3M will present a Case Study: Changing the shop floor reality.

Craig will set out how 3M SPSL accelerated performance gains by engaging their operational management and front line teams with Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) as part of their existing Lean Sigma continuous improvement process.

How fit is your improvement process?

Dennis McCarthyDennis McCarthy
DAK Consulting

How fit is your improvement process?

The aim of this short workshop is to guide delegates through a 10 point organisational health check so that they can systematically assess the strengths and weaknesses of their organisations continuous improvement process.

The format of the review is designed to focus on generic business improvement issues so that it can be of value to organisations using a mix of improvement tools including Lean, Six Sigma or TPM.

Participants will work in small groups to encourage discussion of the review outputs, and share experiences of their own improvement journey. In addition, there will be time for Questions and Answers to cover with specific issues raised by the review process.

The workshop content includes an explanation of the improvement road map and tactics adopted by well known and award winning organisations to deliver year on year improvement in performance.

The supporting material also includes briefing notes setting out 10 flexible low cost/no cost projects which can be used by delegates to address areas of weakness and build on the strengths of their current improvement programmes.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness KPI

Malcolm JonesMalcolm Jones
Director
Productivity Europe Ltd

This workshop will focus on the Overall Equipment Effectiveness KPI, originally developed as part of TPM in the 1970's and now the standard way to measure machine performance.

The workshop will cover:

  • What OEE is, and what it is not
  • How to Calculate OEE
  • How to Measure OEE
  • When OEE is important and when it is not
  • How to spot when OEE is being gamed
  • How to use OEE for Continuous Improvement

The workshop facilitator, Malcolm Jones, has twenty years' experience introducing TPM in varied industries in a dozen countries and is a frequent presenter at TPM conferences in the UK and USA.