Be our guest at an executive networking breakfast

Attend this complimentary networking breakfast and hear from industry luminaries on the latest lean manufacturing practices!

Voice of the Customer

Join Activplant, along with Harbour-Felax Group and Microsoft in welcoming Parker Shannon of Toyota at the Executive Breakfast. Hear how Toyota achieves lean by embracing technologies including Activplant.

Performance Breakaway

To keep ahead in a competitive and global marketplace, manufacturers must constantly surpass the benchmark and break away from the competition. Responding to these challenges can be complex and demanding.

Event Overview

Activplant, an innovator in the manufacturing intelligence community in partnership with the Harbour-Felax Group, a leader in automotive industry consulting and benchmarking, invite you to attend an exclusive executive breakfast. By sharing best practices from industry forerunners and thought leaders, this event will utilize an intimate and interactive platform to ensure that you gain valuable insight into maximizing plant floor performance. Get a solid understanding of the industry landscape and recent trends facing automotive OEM's and suppliers and see what the leaders are doing to improve their product launch success rates in less time and with fewer resources. Learn how identifying true chronic constraints and having the right data at the right time can help manufacturers save on operational costs and increase production throughput.

Agenda

7:30am - 8:30am      Executive Breakfast and Registration
8:30am - 10:30am      Laurie Harbour-Felax, President, Harbour-Felax Group
Dennis Cocco, Founder and Chief Product Strategist, Activplant Corporation
Parker Shannon, Manager Manufacturing CAO, Toyota - TMMK
... along with other key manufacturing speakers including Microsoft
10:30am   Q&A Session


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Laurie Harbour-Felax Laurie Harbour-Felax has 18 years of experience providing the automotive industry with benchmarking, manufacturing assessments, performance enhancement and strategic planning. She is currently president of the Harbour-Felax Group, responsible for directing the company’s daily activities, strategy, business development and industry diversification.

Laurie works closely with automotive and manufacturing companies and their suppliers to analyze their strengths and weaknesses identify existing gaps and risks and develop a strategic transformation process to achieve sustainable improvements, ultimately mitigating risk and improving the health of organizations. Laurie’s passion is the supplier community – particularly small and middle market suppliers. Her company’s programs are designed to help companies develop a proactive supplier-development program that focuses on reducing risks among their supplier base.

Executive Breakfast
Automotive Sector

Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Location: Automotive Hall of Fame
21400 Oakwood Boulevard
Dearborn, MI

Automotive Hall of Fame

For additional information call Kathryn Clark at (519) 668-7336 x378 or email kclark@activplant.com.

Attendees may take advantage of a complementary one day performance improvement assessment conducted by Activplant.

One lucky attendee will receive the Harbour-Felax Report entitled: Automotive Competitive Challenges: Going Beyond Lean. Retail value is $7,500.



Registration Deadline:
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

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