Lean Manufacturing Conference

Timetable

Attendees are all those with responsibility for contributing to continuous improvement in the strategies and operational efficiency of the enterprises that they serve. According to company size, this will include managing directors and directors and managers of finance, operations, production, supply chain, design and IT.

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Agenda

08:30		Registration

09:00		Introduction

09:15		Steve Severs, Site Operations Director Saint–Gobain Glass UK Saint–Gobain Glass UK has held both the title of Britain’s best factory and its best process plant as well as featuring in the Sunday Times 2010 list of best green companies. From 2007 onwards, it rolled out an extensive world class manufacturing programme, playing a key part in the development of the programme across Saint-Gobain’s multinational operating facilities.

10:15		David W Fox, Chairman and CEO, Power Panels Electrical Systems Ltd Power Panels, the winner of a whole clutch of Best Factory Awards, has become a company to emulate. It sets standards in quality and delivery beyond the reach of other world class pretenders, turning ‘adding value’ into tangible, living reality. Above all, it takes decent, hard working, ordinary people and turns them into a committed workforce whose skills and attitude put them at the very top of the industrial tree.

11:15		Coffee

11:30		Colin Larkin, World Class Manufacturing Manager, Case New Holland. Opened in 1964, the company’s Basildon plant has for more than 40 years pioneered tractor production, earning its place as a CNH Centre of Excellence where a combination of advanced technology and experience are put to work, designing and developing sophisticated products to meet customer needs. The plant is heavily into lean manufacturing and has reached an advanced stage of applying its benefits through its assembly lines and sub assembly areas.

12:30		Networking lunch

13.30		Case Study 3 – TBC

14.30		DAK Consulting – How fit is your improvement process? Providing attendees with a 10 point organisational health check for their organisations.

15.30		Productivity Europe – Setting Improvement Priorities with the Pocket Matrix This short workshop focuses on the levelling up approach to improvement, which enables companies to take a balanced, progressive approach to implementing a shop floor improvement strategy.

16:30		Summary and close

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