Britain’s leanest manufacturers to share secrets
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Three of Britain's leanest manufacturers are to share the secrets of 20 years' worth of sustained corporate and operational improvement next week. The three, identified by the US-based international lean guru Professor Richard Schonberger (pictured) as being among a small handful of UK-located companies demonstrating improving trends spanning more than two decades, will be appearing at Works Management magazine's 2009 Lean Manufacturing Conference.
From Molins plc CEO Dick Hunter will be discussing how this £100 million turnover engineering business focused on Lean from a strategic, business perspective – a story of diversification, disposals, acquisitions and outsourcing in the pursuit of corporate and operational improvement.
Coats' Supply Chain Director for Europe and Asia Hizmy Hassen will describe how the global leader in sewing thread manufacture has worked on the implementation of lean principles among suppliers.
Darren Wilson, Operations Manager at British Gypsum will present a case study in achieving success through world class manufacturing.
The conference, to be held at the manufacturing organisation EEF's Woodland Grange in Leamington Spa next Wednesday (14 October), also features an in-depth case study from 3M's operational development specialist Craig Wood, setting out how the company's secure systems and printing operation accelerated performance gains by engaging its people in continuous improvement.
The presentations will be followed by two hands-on lean workshops with conference partners Productivity Europe and DAK Consulting.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness KPI: a workshop focusing on OEE, what it is, when it's important and when it's not, how to calculate and measure it, how to spot when it's being gamed, and how to use it for Continuous Improvement
• How fit is your improvement process? a workshop including an improvement road map and tactics used by award winning organisations to deliver added performance and 10 low cost/no cost projects for delegates use in their own improvement programmes.
A limited number of places are available at £195 plus VAT . Call Julie Knox on 01322 221144 or visit www.leanbusiness.co.uk for more details.
