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Program -- Workforce Development Track Track sponsored by Tooling U
Developing Lean Leaders 8:50 a.m. -- 9:50 a.m. Manufacturers are faced with the challenge of maintaining a thoroughly trained and competent group who can lead their lean programs into the future. This session will explore several strategies that can help manufacturers cultivate new lean leaders and take full advantage of their most valuable commodity. 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. Safety First: Getting the Point Across to Your Workforce 10:10 a.m. -- 11:10 a.m. An operation's most valuable resource is its workers, and keeping them safe is a top priority. This session is designed to help corporations understand best practice essential elements in eliminating injuries, claims, and associated workers' compensation costs to make safety a team effort and build awareness to create safer, more productive plants. It will also examine risk factors and effective abatement recommendations utilizing practical cost effective solutions without disrupting the integrity of manufacturing's operational processes. Speaker  Ken Vandenberghe, OTR/L, CIPS,
CEES, Corporate Health and Safety Manager, Rea Magnet Wire
Ken Vandenberghe, CIPS, OTR/L, CEES, MBA, is a Certified Infrastructure Preparedness Specialist (Department of Homeland Security), Certified Ergonomic Specialist, Occupational Therapist, and the Corporate Health and Safety Manager at Rea Magnet Wire. He is responsible for facilities throughout the United States, Mexico, and China. Vandenberghe has developed and implemented his measurable, goal orientated injury reduction system in a wide variety of businesses and corporations including Fortune 200 and 500 companies for the last 15 years. He has successfully implemented process improvements, sustaining long term process capabilities that helped businesses reduce the number of workplace injuries and unnecessary operating expenses that may result from poor safety practices. This includes facilitating Lean Six Sigma Projects, OSHA compliance, 5S systems, TAP-Root Analysis, and the development of world-class health and management systems. Vandenberghe has also developed industrial rehabilitation centers for top leading hospitals included in the U.S. World and News Report 100 Top Hospitals. In the last 5 years under Vandenberghe's guidance, Rea Magnet Wire has reduced their injury rates by 94%, and workers' compensation exposure by over 3.3 million. In 2007, Rea Magnet Wire was awarded one of America's top ten safest companies by Occupational Hazards Magazine. Vandenberghe has also guided Rea Magnet Wire's Las Cruces, N.M. facility to be recognized as one of IW's 2008 Best Plants Finalists. Vandenberghe is the first therapist nationally to have his own radio talk program focusing on injury prevention, ergonomics, and health promotion. He has been featured in Advance Magazine, Health Week Magazine, OT Week, and Occupational Hazards Magazine. Vandenberghe was a recipient of the 2006 J.J. Keller National Safety Professional of the Year Award. He graduated from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, completed residency at Princeton University Medical School, Princeton, New Jersey and completed his master's in Executive Business and Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. Best Plants Winners Panel Discussion 1:40 p.m. -- 2:40 p.m. Speakers TBA The Changing Role of First-Line Supervisors 3:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m. Serving as the link between management and the plant floor, first-line supervisors have a critical role. But despite most of their time being spent on the production floor, the position also answers directly to management on a regular basis. This session explores some of the issues facing first-line supervisors today, and how these supervisors are learning to deal with the various pressures they face every day. Speaker TBA Wednesday, April 29 Future of Manufacturing: Optimizing for an Aging Workforce 8:35 a.m. -- 9.35 a.m. With plant workers staying in their jobs longer and older workers rejoining the workforce, companies are facing labor related-issues that have not arisen in the past. This session will explore some of these issues and how to resolve them through altering work environments and a risk-based approach to safety. This session will explore the most typical age-related sensory and motor changes facing the aging worker. It will discuss how these changes may impact the employee as he/she strives to deliver a job well-done. Furthermore, we'll detail how work environments can and should be altered to maximize productivity for the aging workforce. Finally, it will look at how a risk-based approach to workplace safety management can improve productivity for employees of all age groups. Speaker  Franz Schneider, CEO, Humantech
Franz Schneider, chief executive officer of Humantech, founded the organization in 1979. For over 30 years, he has been a consultant to companies around the globe, implementing ergonomics initiatives to assist companies in improving their competitiveness. Schneider has developed and delivered thousands of training and engineering programs for health and safety professionals, engineers, ergonomists, facilities managers, and ergonomics committees. He also helps organizations integrate ergonomics with business performance objectives including Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, design for assembly, and systems reliability. Schneider holds dual bachelor's degrees from the State University of New York in Physiology and Systems Engineering. He obtained a master's in Ergonomics from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Canada, and completed post-graduate studies at the University of Cologne in Germany. Developing People with A3 Thinking 9:55 a.m. -- 10:55 a.m. Speaker  Jamie Flinchbaugh, Founder and
Partner, Lean Learning Center
Jamie Flinchbaugh is a founder and partner of the Lean Learning Center in Novi, Michigan, and the co-author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road. He shares his successful and varied experiences of lean transformation as a practitioner and leader through companies such as Chrysler and DTE Energy. He also has a wide range of practical experience in industrial operations, including production, maintenance, material control, product development, and manufacturing engineering. Flinchbaugh is a graduate fellow of the highly regarded Leaders for Manufacturing Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research thesis was on implementing lean manufacturing through factory design. He also holds a bachelor's in engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn. and a master's in engineering from the University of Michigan. In 2006, he was named to Crain Detroit's 40 Under 40 list for his accomplishments. Recruiting, Selecting and Training 21st Century Employees 11:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. With technological advancements and manufacturing trends developing at such a fast pace, finding skilled individuals to fill essential positions has become a serious issue. And, it is not only finding them that is a challenge, but also quickly training them for niche roles and retraining existing employees to fill more roles. This session addresses specific models and strategies that can aid your operation in identifying and retaining labor that keeps pace with the times. Speaker  Leo Reddy, CEO, Manufacturing Skill
Standards Council (MSSC)
Leo Reddy is the chairman and CEO of the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC). The MSSC is a nationwide system of industry-led standards, training, assessment, and certification for production and production support workers in all sectors of manufacturing. He has personally conducted major plant-level projects using MSSC standards as a basis for developing comprehensive workforce development systems tailored to individual plant needs. Reddy's leadership of the MSSC grew out of a series of federally-funded industrial skill standards projects that he directed when he was building the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM). Founded by Mr. Reddy in 1989, NACFAM is an industry-led, policy research organization in Washington, D.C. that provides manufacturers and government -- reinforced by academia, research, manufacturing extension centers and labor -- a non-partisan, non- adversarial forum to work together in the development of policies and strategies that strengthen U.S.-based manufacturing. Before entering the private sector to lead NACFAM in 1989, Reddy had a highly successful, 28-year Foreign Service career in the U.S. Department of State where he rose to the rank of "Career Minister" (the diplomatic equivalent of Lt. General). He was a leading State Department expert on NATO, arms control, and defense policy, serving on the NATO Desk, the National Military Command Center, and as State Liaison to the National Security Council at the White House. A prolific author and frequent speaker, Reddy has published two books, numerous research studies, and many articles. Conference speakers, topics, and sessions are liable to change at any time. Last Updated January 5, 2009. |
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