DAY ONE

LEAN MAINTENANCE
Monday, Dec. 12

Case studies of best practices
How manufacturers have done "more with less" by employing lubrication best practices.  Case studies are applicable to all industries, highlighting the Steel, Automotive, Chemical, and Cement industries. The methodologies described here can have immediate bottom-line impact if employed upon return to your facility.

Using predictive methods & CMMS to 
eliminate non-essential lubricant-related PMs
How best-in-class manufacturers are evaluating their PM programs to eliminate wasteful and/or meaningless LMs that have been done by rote over time. This is an aspect of Lean Manufacturing, considering only the highest priority PMs can be done with limited resources. Learn how to more effectively coordinate predictive methods so that the right PMs are done, only when needed.

Bringing it all together with lubricant focused CMMS:
Learn how a newly developed, Web-based, lubrication- focused CMMS can effectively address the often missing aspect of lubrication in today's mainstream CMMS offerings. The large expense and time needed to develop a CMMS-specific lubrication module can be avoided.  Whether using this newly developed software or developing your own module, this session describes the critical success factors for development and desired outcomes of a fully functional lube management CMMS.

AMERICAN AIRLINES
Frankie Meza, continuous improvement director, Tulsa Maintenance and Engineering Base, presents “A New Model for Lean Maintenance.”
Includes the creation and launch of AA’s landmark Working Together program with its labor union, initial successes of cooperative Lean Maintenance initiatives and progress toward the company’s goal of turning its Tulsa Maintenance & Engineering Base from a cost center to $500 million in savings and revenues by the end of 2006. This presentation is a must-attend event for any company with a union shop.

NAVSEA NAVAL SURFACE
WARFARE CENTER (NSWC)
Ben Harkness, division manager,
Microwave Technologies Division
NSWC Crane is a multi-mission, multi-service product center with both a fleet support and industrial base mission. In fulfilling its industrial base mission, NSWC Crane acts as a steward of microwave tubes, printed wiring boards, pyrotechnics, radiation hardened devices and batteries. NSWC Crane is unique among all Department of Defense installations in its co-location of a range of diverse capabilities complemented by NSWC Crane’s acquisition professionals, material logistics expertise, and product test ranges on a 100-square-mile property.

RAYTHEON MISSILE SYSTEMS
Mike Burmood, deputy director of facility services, presents "A Lean Journey: Facility Services in Raytheon Missile Systems and Raytheon Principles of Manufacturing for a Lean Environment.”
Content includes actions leading up to Raytheon Missile Systems being awarded the SHINGO Prize for Manufacturing Excellence and the role Lean Maintenance plays in the complex defense industry.

LEAN MANUFACTURING
Tuesday, Dec. 13

SAS INSTITUTE
Marisa Langford, Six Sigma software training specialist, presents “An Executive Overview of Six Sigma.”
This course is suitable for people from manufacturing or transactional backgrounds and includes an overview of Six Sigma concepts, required infrastructure, expected benefits, enterprise level metrics, and the DMAIC method for achieving breakthroughs in performance.

Course contents
• What is Six Sigma?
• Three elements of Six Sigma
• How Six Sigma fits into the company
• Integration of lean into Six Sigma deployment
• DMAIC roadmap
• Expected benefits of Six Sigma
• Management infrastructure for Six Sigma
• Roles and responsibilities
• Executive staff and champions
• Black belts, green belts and all employees
• Business goals, objectives, and dashboards for Six Sigma
• Alignment of Six Sigma to business goals and objectives
• Dashboards: use and purpose
• DMAIC Breakthrough Methodology:
     Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control
• Implementation issues and timelines
• Six Sigma deployment model
• Project selection
• Black belt selection
• Reviewing progress and maintaining accountability
• Next steps

WRIGHT TOOL
Terry Taylor, president of Wright Tool, presents “From Quality Circles to Six Sigma — Our Lean Odyssey.”
Content includes a history of this premier American hand tool manufacturer’s more than 30-year journey of continuous improvement from Quality Circles to its Six Sigma initiatives today. In the highly competitive hand tool market, this company knows what it takes to stay on top. Taylor is a member and past president of the Association for Quality and Participation. He is a member of American Society of Metals, American Society for Quality, American Society for Training and Development, and the Society for Manufacturing Engineers. He is a past chair of the excellence team of the Ohio Manufacturing Association.

WHIRLPOOL  
Larry Dunfee, manager of consumer centered manufacturing, presents “Top Ten Keys to Lean Manufacturing Success.”
Content will focus on the top 10 (or so) key things to do (and some to avoid) to drive a successful Lean manufacturing transformation. Key learnings gleaned from Whirlpool’s six-year Lean process and cultural transformation will be shared.

AMERICAN LASER PRODUCTS
Bill Henry, Sr., president of ALP, presents “ALP’s
Lean Transformation.”
This presentation provides a textbook example of how Lean Manufacturing principles and tools have been used to accomplish a dynamic turnaround at ALP. From bleak conditions before the transformation began through laying the Lean groundwork, working through the transformation to achieve initial, then sustained results, and on to a new outlook, mission, operational model and profit goals, this company’s journey presents the entire Lean journey in microcosm.

DAY THREE

LEAN ENTERPRISE
Wednesday, Dec. 13

SIMPLER CONSULTING
Mark Gooch, manager of client services, presents “Creating Flow in Administrative and Transactional Environments.”
This in-depth workshop teaches managers how to identify and eliminate waste in administrative and transactional environments and provides numerous illustrations of successful Lean Enterprise best practices. Simpler Consulting has become the world’s largest and fastest-growing lean-focused consulting company by holding itself accountable for helping its clients achieve lasting, measurable results and a culture of never-ending improvement. The company learned from the original key members of Toyota’s Autonomous Study Group.

GE HEALTHCARE
PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS
Bharat Monteiro, Lean leader and Six Sigma master black belt, presents “The Lean Revolution in Healthcare.”
Contents include case studies of how Lean tools utilized by leading healthcare providers are transforming the healthcare industry from the admissions desk to the operating room. The future of healthcare is right here. Think how many of these examples can relate to your front office, your back office and your Lean enterprise as a whole.

MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Larry Rubrich, professional engineer, adjunct professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and founder of WCM Associates, presents “10 Reasons Why Lean Implementations Fail.”
Larry has over 25 years of experience in engineering and manufacturing in the automotive, industrial, and consumer products areas including work with a top-level Japanese consulting group hired by a U. S. company to implement the Toyota Production System (TPS) in its plants. In addition to co-authoring the widely acclaimed book, Implementing World Class Manufacturing – Business Manual, Larry’s second book, How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures …. 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur, was published in September 2004.