A conference and hands-on learning experience for senior executives.

Whatever stage you've reached in your Lean programme, this one-day summit is an unmissable opportunity to learn from your peers and get involved in a series of hands-on workshops.

Who should attend?
All those with responsibility for contributing to continuous improvement in the strategies and operational efficiency of the enterprises they serve. According to company size, this will include managing directors and directors and managers of finance,operations, production, supply chain, design and IT.

What you will learn
In the morning you will be sharing in the Lean experiences of your manufacturing peers and, in the afternoon, you will participate in a choice of six streams of intensive, hands-on workshops.

Specifically, you will hear about:

• Meeting the challenges of implementing a lean programme in a non-automated environment.
• Maintaining UK production in a market sector that has otherwise all but decamped to low cost countries.
• How workforce response helped a dramatic improvement in turn-round, a hike in productivity and improvement in on-time delivery.
• Developing and implementing a lean production system to meet arequirement for a step change in output volume

...and then hone your skills in a series of workshops.

• Meet genuine lean manufacturing practitioners.
• Hear top class business study evidence.
• Work and learn in expert-led workshops.
• Try and test tools and techniques.
• Participate in simulation exercises.
• Takeaway plans for action

Summit agenda:

Event Date:
13th March 2008

Address:
The Derby Conference Centre, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Website:
http://www.leanbusiness.co.uk/