Three inspirational days that could transform your business www.themanufacturer.com May 2009 Vol 12 Issue 4
The UK/US Shingo Summit provides operational and enterprise leaders with three days of hands-on workshops, best practice factory tours, hard-hitting presentations and inspirational speakers from both sides of the Atlantic. Whether you are lean enlightened or a lean beginner, you will witness the ʻhowʼ and ʻwhyʼ of those making exceptional gains in operational excellence – businesses that are turning todayʼs economic challenges into productivity and profit.
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Discover how to take lean beyond the shop-floor and into the whole enterprise – from the boardroom to the back office. Learn about the underlying principles behind The Shingo Prize philosophy and approach, regarded as ʻThe Nobel Prizeʼ for operational excellence and internationally recognised as the blueprint for lean transformation.
Steven Spear, Ph.D.
Max Brown
Author of ‘Chasing the Rabbit’ and ’Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System’
Speaker ‘Carrot Philosophy’
Norman Bodek
John Bicheno
Author of numerous lean books and articles on the Toyota Production System
Author of ‘The New Lean Toolbox’
Robert D. Miller
Drew Locher
Senior Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Director O.C. Tanner Company
President PCS Inc.
Can renewables energize British industry?
Senior Research Fellow Lean Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff Business School
Executive Director, The Shingo Prize, Utah State University
Principal Change Management Associates Author of ‘The Complete Lean Enterprise – Value Stream Mapping for Office and Administratice Processes’
Jerry M. Wright, P.E.
Professor Peter Hines
Vice President, Lean and Enterprise Excellence DJO, LLC
Chairman Lean Enterprise Research Centre Author of ‘Staying Lean’
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Shingo Prize recipient
Green economy needs green skills
Design and innovation University links with industry
Supply chain
Freight forwarding economics
www.themanufacturer.com May 2009 Vol 12 Issue 4
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