tHE MANUFACTURER dIRECTORS’ cONFERENCE 2010 17-18 NOVEMBER Chesford Grange, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
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17-18 NOVEMBER CHESFORD GRANGE KENILWORTH WARWICKSHIRE
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You and your team are invited to attend The Manufacturer Directors’ Conference (MDC), the annual flagship event for The Manufacturer magazine. This year the conference will deliver two days of thought leadership, intensive learning and inspiration for manufacturing leaders. High-end networking and professional development opportunities for 200 senior UK manufacturers make this an event not to be missed. THE GREAT RESET 2008 saw the financial world crumble. To recover, the global economy has been reset and now government, business, industry and society are following suit. This great reset is driving fundamental changes in the structure of society and economy. How will your organisation reposition to excel in the new conditions? The Manufacturer invites you to join your peers and share in the knowledge of how to pursue excellence throughout your business. The Manufacturer Directors Conference 2010 will provide a forum for leaders, a platform for visionaries and a practical learning opportunity for those seeking constantly to improve. Join us at the MDC 2010, we look forward to meeting you and your team Jon Tudor MDC Programme Director
The 2010 MDC will provide you and your team with: 5 Thought leadership keynote presentations 12 Manufacturing case study presentations Exclusive pre-conference workshops (November 17) Lively manufacturing debate
Three events – Two high impact learning and networking days: 17th November Pre-Conference full day workshops 09:00–17:00 18th November
The Manufacturer Directors’ Conference 09:00 –17:00
18th November
The Manufacturer of the Year Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner 18:00-Midnight
day one – 17th november
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Choose from four full day hands-on workshops:
Richard Holland, Managing Director, TBM, UK, India, S.Africa ENABLING LEAN SUCCESS THROUGH LEADERSHIP AND CULTURE
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Harness the hearts and minds of your people to build a culture of continuous improvement. Ask any lean leader today and you’ll get passionate discussion about what it takes to truly transform into a lean enterprise. Everyone will agree that it is imperative to change the mind-set of people and that sustaining change requires passionate leadership. Lean leaders must translate the benefits of lean at every level of the organization. A lean leader creates an unwavering passion and excitement for a lean growth strategy and drives cultural transformation across the enterprise. The result: sustained competitive advantage and increased shareholder value. Explore common characteristics of lean leaders. Find out how to transition from being a leader to being a LEAN leader. TBM will highlight approaches to implementation and outline standard work for executing a lean transformation. Leave with energy and ideas to help clarify your role in creating a lean culture. In the end, you’ll find ways to go faster and create a sense of urgency throughout your organization.
Gwendolyn Galsworth, President, Quality Methods Int. VISUAL THINKING: VISUAL WORKPLACE A Visual Workplace is not about buckets and brooms or posters and signs – or, for that matter, kanban or a handful of metrics boards. It is a compelling operational imperative, crucial to meeting daily production goals, central to a company’s war on waste, and fundamental to vastly reduced lead times and an accelerated flow. Workplace visuality is the language of excellence made visual and then imbedded into the process of work. Gwendolyn is a leading expert and accomplished award winning author from the USA. At this workshop:
Discover the ten core visual workplace technologies & key visual outcomes of each. Learn how they work together to create significant bottom line results. Learn to diagnose visuality in your own company & identify your current level of visual competency. Discover the three biggest mistakes of a visual initiative and how to avoid them. Learn about the I-Driven conversion—the vital journey of the individual as the company converts to sustainable visuality. Learn to energize and unite your workforce through visual functionality, even in a multilingual/ multi-cultural work environment. Learn how to measure bottom line visual results & how to track impact on people. Learn the vital difference between measures that monitor and measures that drive. Discover the three biggest mistakes when launching a visual initiative & how to avoid them.
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Nigel Newman , Director, Edward de Bono Foundation CREATIVE THINKING FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT This one day workshop will ensure everyone can contribute to their full potential in a collaborative environment working with individuals and groups, to move laterally across thinking patterns to chair and run effective meetings and discover new ideas and concepts. The workshop will focus all participants to learn and use the Six Hat Thinking tools to move away from our traditional approach of thinking about everything at once, to parallel exploration of a subject. It will also combine three of Dr de Bono most powerful Thinking Tools - Lateral Thinking, Direct Attention Thinking and the Six Thinking Hats. Topics of the workshop include:
Thinking as a skill Perception and thinking Direct attention thinking tools The Six Thinking Hats Lateral Thinking Evidence and case studies
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Keynote Speaker Spotlight 18th Nov Lunchtime Keynote: T H E G R E AT R E S E T
day two – 18th november
Clifford Burroughs
Group Chief Information Officer, United Biscuits (UB)
Driving simplicity through the UB value chain
For the past two years, UB UK has been driving a new way of business thinking through the implementation of value stream thinking to deliver increased consumer value and consequent profitability. Focusing on cross-functional value streams alongside functional agendas, this approach is embedded across UB UK building on a century of exceptional business growth. The approach was simple; using lean thinking as its catalyst, the business needed to reset and manage its horizontal value flows throughout the enterprise. Utilising meaningful top-to-bottom profitability data, UB were able to unlock insights that facilitated a step change in performance of these value streams and provides the basis of further ongoing transformation. The Manufacturer magazine invites you and your team to see and hear more of this manufacturing excellence case study.
Other keynotes include: Ross Warburton
Executive Director, Warburtons
Nigel Newman
Director, Edward de Bono Foundation (UK)
Mike Gregory
Head of Manufacturing, Ifm, Cambridge University, MDC Panellist Chairman
Chris Daffy
Founder of The Academy of Service Excellence
THREE MDC BREAKOUT STREAMS Select from 12 breakout case studies including: MDC Stream One Enablers of Excellence Gwendolyn Galsworth, President, Quality Methods International Company leadership is responsible for the corporate intent: finding and focusing targets for strategic growth and tactical improvement, driving those improvements through metrics-based problem solving—and then turning results into operational best practices. In this session, you build your understanding of how executives, managers, and supervisors can learn to use the language of visualisation to grow, align, and drive the enterprise—how to deploy Visual Leadership.
Jim Wade, Principal JCB Academy Jim will give an overview of the establishment of UK’s first new Technical Academy and relate his experiences of building industry partnerships for the mutual benefit of young people and industrial advance in the UK. Students from The JCB Academy will also participate in the presentation to talk about how their education at The JCB Academy has influenced their view of industry.
Robin Johnson, Partner, Eversheds Robin is a leading cross border M&A lawyer who also heads up Eversheds’ Industrial Engineering sector group. He is consistently ranked, by Mergermarket, in the top 10 lawyers in Europe for the last five years and has been voted for two years in a row as the Insider Corporate Lawyer of the Year. Robin has lectured extensively in terms of cross border M&A both in Europe and in the United States and is a regular thought leader on such topics. He is a member of the American Bar Association.
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MDC Stream Two Excellence in Practice Craig Sams, Rio Tinto Alcan UK Service Delivery Manager This workshop will demonstrate how Rio Tinto Alcan, a global leader in mining, processing and manufacturing industry, is driving continuous improvement in their supply chain operations. Highlighting how the creation of an effective, flexible supply chain is driving performance and creating value, whilst at the same time reducing working capital and supporting Rio Tinto Alcan’s manufacturing and operational performance goals.
Steve Nevey, RedBull Racing
MDC Stream Three Excellence in Strategy Jonathan Duck, CEO, Amtico Int.
Jonathan will cover the challenges he faced joining a management buyout, restarting growth and then leading Amtico into a highly geared secondary management buy-out. He will describe how Amtico has been able to post record results and how the company has made its West Midlands factory cost competitive with China. This has let Amtico repatriate manufacturing from the Far East to its UK and US factories, and play its own part in rebuilding the UK’s manufacturing base.
Steve Clarksmith, Head of Supply Chain, Alstom Mainline
Steve will provide insights and best practice into the application of effective management systems to Red Bull Racings manufacturing and design technologies, to reduce costs and improve lead times. Steve will identify improvements that really make a difference, and the key lessons learned in effective collaboration. He will also share best practice in designing and manufacturing a high precision product with extreme time to market requirements.
Steve’s first lean journey was in Alstom’s Birmingham factory, using the experience gained in implementing the Alstom Lean Production System (APSYS) for train manufacture. He later led the effort to introduce lean improvement principles in Alstom’s UK train maintenance business. As a Six Sigma black belt and business improvement manager, Steve has played a leading role in establishing a programme to help improve train performance, reliability and maintenance efficiency during planned downtime.
Allan Harley, Continuous Improvement Manager, Vaillant Group
Nigel Stansfield, Senior Vice President Product and Innovation, Interface FLOR
Vaillant is a shining beacon of how to deliver manufacturing excellence, exceptional financial performance and corporate and social responsibility. This presentation will illustrate how Vaillant has achieved a 47.2% increase in direct hours, 30% reduction in costs for temporary staff, absence levels down 31%, 33% reduction in downtime caused by suppliers and 80% drop in lost time due to skill shortages.
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