Performance Breakaway through Lean

Are you fighting to survive or preparing to thrive?

What automotive OEMs and suppliers need to compete in today's global marketplace.

Now it's time to take control, or be controlled by operational costs. Surviving in today’s global economic marketplace is a challenge facing all manufacturing companies. The ability to identify key performance improvements with rapid return on investment may mean the difference between continuing operations in North America or moving them to Asia. Learn how manufacturers are embracing new technologies to drive accountability for their continuous improvement teams. By identifying and eliminating manufacturing waste with clear and visual constraint identification, you can be on the path to reducing your operational costs by 15-25% in a matter of weeks. Learn how applying this leading technology to your plant floor is a must in today's ever changing marketplace.

Agenda

Colin Masson, Research Director at AMR Research, Inc., will discuss his findings on lean management and elaborate on industry trends including the importance of software technology as a key enabler of lean programs and processes.
Kyle Solomon, Vice President Worldwide Marketing & Product Management at Activplant Corporation, will explore lean manufacturing in practice and how companies can drive operational costs down by focusing on constraint management.
There will be a live Q&A session - you can forward your questions in advance to: marketing@activplant.com

Keynote

Colin Masson brings more than 20 years of experience with a strong foundation in real-time manufacturing technologies and applications to his role as research director at AMR Research. He currently leads the firm’s Chemical & Process Research practice. Colin has leveraged his background aligning manufacturing and corporate IT by coining the term Supply Network Operations (SNO) as a way to highlight the new role of manufacturing within a demand driven supply network.

Activplant Corporation: An enterprise manufacturing intelligence market leader, Activplant’s performance management system has set the standard in operational excellence within the world’s largest and most admired manufacturers. Aimed at high-volume, high-automation plants, Activplant’s solution consolidates plant floor data into relevant real-time and historical information, enabling productivity gains by optimizing product, people, equipment and processes. With Activplant solutions, plant managers and manufacturing executives can focus on the key issues in their facilities that ultimately improve product quality, accelerate new product launches and drive performance gains.