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Program -- Continuous Improvement 101 Track
Make Your Employee Suggestion Program Work for You 10:00 a.m. -- 11:00 a.m. An employee suggestion program should be carefully constructed and launched with organizational commitment, clarity and ongoing communication in order to have a positive impact on your bottom line and your employee motivation and enthusiasm. Learn how rewarding a successful employee suggestion program can be and the best tactics to achieve it. Speaker  Mel Stojakovich -- Manager of
Continuous Improvement, Magee Rieter -- 2006 IW Best Plants Winner
Mel Stojakovich is the manager of continuous improvement for Rieter Automotive Carpet operations (formerly Magee Rieter Automotive Systems). He is responsible for the overall continuous improvement efforts of Rieters North American automotive carpet operations located in Bloomsburg, PA, Shreveport, LA, and London, ON. Rieter's North American automotive carpet operations have approximately 800 associates and are represented by the UNITE HERE! formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees. Stojakovich holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from West Virginia University and continued with graduate studies in Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University. He has held a variety of corporate and manufacturing positions of increasing responsibility in industrial engineering, human resources, and operations management throughout his professional career. His passion is engaging shop floor associates in identifying areas of waste and opportunities for product and process improvements. He has been a key team member of the Rieter Automotive carpet business for four years. He helped lead the Bloomsburg Operation into one of the top manufacturing facilities in North America with its recognition as a Top 25 IndustryWeek Best Plant finalist in 2005 and a Top 10 IndustryWeek Best Plants winner in 2006. The Rieter leadership team follows the guiding principle of involving all associates on the team beginning with regular and ongoing communications related to both the day to day operations, and performance to established operational goals. Much of the success at the Bloomsburg plant can be attributed to associates being actively involved by bringing forward new ideas and solutions and the sense that we are all in it together. How to Create a Continuous Improvement Culture 11:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. Culture change takes time and the involvement of all associates in a plant or company. This cannot be done just by bringing new tools in such as Lean and Six Sigma as a stand alone pieces. There must be a holistic systematic approach to changing the way people think and work. This is the only way that continuous improvement can be sustained. The Milliken Performance System was implemented in 1996 with Japanese influence that lasted over 10 years. Today, the system is in place and as new tools such as Lean and Six Sigma come into focus, they are integrated into the system. Individual pieces work but they work much better when integrated into an existing system. This presentation is about how to develop the system that creates the continuous improvement culture. Speaker  David Rowland, Director of Milliken
Performance System, Milliken & Company
--> Prerequisites for Lean Success: Learning from Toyota 2:00 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. How was Toyota so successful in implementing its Toyota Production System? Learn why overall operational stability was a prerequisite for Toyota to be successful just as it is for Lean success. Speaker Vince Engelman, GE Healthcare Intro to Toyota Production System 3:15 p.m. -- 4:15 p.m. This session will describe the principles of the Toyota Production System and how each is used to improve manufacturing operations. Speaker Steve Schaus, Partner, Lean Horizons Consulting Steve Schaus is a partner with Lean Horizons Consulting and has been a leader in Lean Six Sigma Enterprise Transformation in both industry and consulting roles. As vice vresident, operational excellence at Sequa Corporation, a $2B diversified, global manufacturer, Schaus launched and led a Lean Sigma transformation driving significant improvement in economic profit. He was a Lean pioneer at Andersen Consulting, helping launch and grow the manufacturing productivity practice. He has experience in factory, office, new product development and supply chain processes in industrial and consumer products as well as aerospace and defense. He is a frequent speaker at Lean Sigma conferences. Thursday, April 3 Beyond the Traditional 5S for Lean 8:45 a.m. -- 9:45 a.m. Introduces and describes the principles of 5S and its importance in the manufacturing environment. Goes beyond traditional emphasis on clean-up and discusses best practice benchmarking and key performance indicators that influence manufacturing operations. Also introduces Visual Enterprise Content along with examples of visual management. Provides a roadmap for sustaining 5S or using visual standards throughout a plant or factory floor. Speaker Bob Winter, Executive Coach, Milwaukee School of Engineering's Business Excellence Consortium Bob Winter has held executive and technical level positions in research and development, operations and manufacturing. He has led major organizations through productivity improvement initiatives in multi-cultural and international environments. He also has extensive experience with executive one on one and leadership team coaching. Socio-Technical analysis and Whole System Thinking is integrated with hands-on implementation of Employee Involvement, Statistical Process Control, Total Quality Management, Theory of Constraints, Demand Flow Technology and Lean Manufacturing. Implementation of cellular, agile, mixed model, short cycle and high volume lines utilizing kanban and buffer management have resulted in breakthrough performance improvement. Winter has developed product life cycle systems to guide product development through full life cycle management incorporating principles of Lean and Six Sigma. Hands-on and leadership experience includes but is not limited to primary metal fabrication, machining, high tech electronics, wire harness, injection and compression molding, wood products processes, etc in defense, commercial, automotive, furniture, building and medical industries governed by compliance to DOE, DOD, FDA, UL, CSA, and ISO requirements etc. A New Breed of Supervisor: The Performance-Focused Lean Leader 10:00 a.m. -- 11:00 a.m. With the changing manufacturing environments driven through lean transformations, first-line supervisors need to have the tools and ability to understand and act on various human performance issues. The culture of the leadership pool is changing, and as a result, more defined, performance centered development initiatives are required to reduce gaps in leadership performance. This session identifies some of the critical areas of development needed by supervisors to sustain a lean manufacturing culture. Speaker  Doug Stone, Leadership Development,
Case New Holland
Doug Stone is responsible for people development for Case New Holland (CNH) North America. CNH is a world leader in the agricultural and construction equipment business. He spent 15 years in the United States Air Force in various roles leading into training management. After his military career, Stone worked for Quad Graphics, a printing company, and helped lead one of their divisions' lean transformation efforts. Stone currently is delivering team building, leadership assimilations, and performance management sessions and designing manufacturing level skill and leadership based training programs. He is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). He is most passionate about creating organizational value through people development. How to Identify and Execute Successful Kaizen Events 11:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. This presentation will give you the keys to implementing a structured approach to selecting and coordinating kaizen events. You'll learn when it is best to use kaizen events as your lean tool; how to prioritize them to maximize the benefits; a step-by-step approach to execute the events; and how to assure the events are successful. Speaker Guy Morgan, Managing Director and Head of the North American Operations Advisory Group, BBK Guy Morgan has more than 30 years of experience in plant management and operational improvement processes. He specializes in program launch, lean manufacturing, and interim management in the automotive manufacturing realm. Guy has successfully turned around troubled plants, restoring profitability and customer confidence in quality and delivery. Morgan has his master's in Operations and is well known and regarded in the manufacturing community. Conference speakers, topics, and sessions are liable to change at any time. Last Updated March 5, 2008. |
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