Lean Manufacturing Conference

Workshops

In the afternoon you will be able to get hands on practical advice during our workshops.

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How fit is your improvement process?

Dennis 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.

Setting Improvement Priorities with the Pocket Matrix

Malcolm Jones
Director
Productivity Europe Ltd

This short workshop, led by Malcolm Jones of Productivity Europe, focuses on the leveling up approach to improvement, which enables companies to take a balanced, progressive approach to implementing a shopfloor improvement strategy.

Participants will work in teams through a leveling up case study before being shown how Productivity Europe clients have used this approach to set up their improvement teams and audit their improvement activities.