Five days left for AME lean manufacturing conference registration

The event is running at the Heritage Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire, and is organised in association with the DTI’s Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) and Manufacturing Computer Solutions and Works Management magazines. AME chairman Bob Davis (also managing director of Deltron-Emcon) says the conference content will “blow you away.” He claims AME’s lean participants – which include manufacturers large and small – achieve on average: inventory reduced 82%, set-up times down 79%, lead times cut 84%, production floor space halved, labour requirement reduced 29% and product development lead-times also halved. The event is aimed at managing directors, finance directors and operations directors and managers, and will explore lean opportunities, methods, secrets and successes in companies’ factories, back and front office functions, supply chains, even engineering design departments. Speakers include the legendary Joe Booth – lean advocate with 30 years manufacturing experience – and Chris McKellen, who set up a world class manufacturing plant for a global automotive components manufacturer in Shanghai. McKellen specialises in modern manufacturing techniques, lean supply chain thinking and appropriate IT. Price for delegates is £175 – and that includes membership of AME UK for the rest of 2006 free. AME UK is the UK chapter of the US not-for-profit Association of Manufacturing Excellence networking organisation for senior business executives. Its goals are to promote manufacturing competitiveness through learning the how-to and why-to of turning to modern lean thinking. Go to www.leanbusiness.co.uk for conference information and booking.