Manufacturing Summit Division presents AMERICAN MANUFACTURING SUMMIT MARCH 10-11, 2015 Loews Chicago O Hare Hotel www.manusummit.com Tomorrow s Connection Today Driving business Performance through process and technological innovation PROGRAM
PROGRAM DAY ONE: MARCH 10 08:00-08:30 BREAKFAST 08:30-08:40 CHAIRPERSON S OPENING REMARKS 08:40-09:20 KEYNOTE KEEPING YOUR MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE Aligning the corporate culture. Sustaining efforts. Focusing on continuous improvement. Exploiting technology. Finding and keeping the right talent. 09:20-10:00 Peter Holicki Corporate VP Manufacturing and Engineering PLENARY REDUCING COST WHILE MAINTAINING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AT ALL SITES Saving on capital spending whilst improving process efficiency and productivity globally. Adopting a holistic approach to investing in existing facility enhancements. Combating rising costs of manufacturing with COG reduction. Building COG reduction into the development of the facility of the future. Incorporating existing lean and green initiatives into your cost reduction strategy. 10:00-11:35 ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS 11:35-12:10 Bill Seaton VP Global Engineering and Operational Excellence PLENARY: LEAN MANUFACTURING RESTARTING AND REVITALIZING YOUR LEAN INITIATIVE Establishing a strategy to rapidly ENERGIZE a stalled or unsuccessful effort. Developing a sustainable model to generate better results with bottom line accountability. Engages leadership to focus on transformational aspects with a ownership based approach. Driving successful change in culture, buy in, and metrics to get things right. Dr. Bob L. Zimering Director Lean Six Sigma p2
12:10-12:45 IoT AND ITS IMPACT ON MANUFACTURING USE CASES ACROSS THE VALUE CHAIN FROM R&D TO SALES Connected Products How are manufactures connecting their products and what is the value proposition? Smart Factories IoT is enabling manufacturers to lighten their manufacturing floor increasing OEE. End-to-End Supply Chain Synchronization How manufacturers are digitizing information to increase visibility. Omnichannel Using connected products to improve sales and customer service in the field. Randal Kenworthy Director Customer Value Acceleration Manufacturing Industry Lead * with support from Dan Boutell and Nandu Nandakumar 12:45-01:45 TECHNOLOGY PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS ENABLES LEAN PULL MANUFACTURING Predictive analytics based solution to solve complex planning and scheduling challenges in real time operations. Improve performance by bridging the gap between forecast driven planning and Lean order-driven execution. Simultaneously schedule across supply chain tiers to improve coordination and agility. Predictive modeling provides powerful insights into true production system capabilities. Alf Sherk Founder & CEO NETWORKING LUNCH 01:45-02:25 PLENARY: WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT TALENT MANAGEMENT FOR THE GLOBAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: THE VALUE OF WORKFORCE PLANNING Talent management as a driver of operating results and an opportunity to decrease labour costs. Managing your talent in rapid growth markets: developing a pipeline of manufacturing leadership. Investment decisions that translate into well-designed programs and approaches that produce desired attraction, development, productivity and retention outcomes. Best practices in responding to talent drivers and trends: focus on critical workforce segments rather than attempting to forecast for the entire organization. 02:25-03:00 Leah Curry Vice President OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Developing a demand flow production system that can handle complexity. Accounting for market opportunities: Establishing an OpEx program that drives manufacturing agility. How to constantly drive Continuous Improvement from key multifaceted operational metrics. Safety, Cost, Energy, Quality and Moral as key quantifiable components to sustainable OpEx deployment. Optimal ways to drive efficiency in people, process and technology. Phil McIntyre Sr. Director Business Development TECHNOLOGY LEVERAGING MODELING TO ACCELERATE LEAN RESULTS Process modeling friend or foe. Process Analytics: Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive, Prescriptive. Live VSM s key to understanding the physics of the process. The Virtual Kaizen, your insurance policy. Sustaining the gain. Bruce Gladwin VP Consulting p3
03:00-04:20 ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS 04:20-04:55 PLENARY: TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING: ENTERING AN ERA OF HYPER-INNOVATION Equating R&D investment with manufacturing optimization New technologies and collaborative business models as a driver for operational excellence. Rationalizing increased spend on innovation as a driver for bottom line growth. Understanding the impact of 3D printing collaboration and supply chains in decreased manufacturing costs and speed to market. 04:55-05:30 Dr. Soeren Wiener Director Technology Programs PANEL THE EVOLUTION OF MANUFACTURING EXAMINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AUTOMATED PRODUCTION AS A DRIVER TO SHIFT HISTORICAL BELIEFS IN GLOBAL FOOTPRINT OPTIMIZATION Understanding the intersection of technology and geography as a strategic manufacturing opportunity as automation changes the game. Automation and process efficiency as countermeasures to opportunities in decreased labor cost, generating the ability to do more with less. Understanding the knowledge economy as an essential requisite to remain competitive in a developing market. Driving cost reduction through the establishing manufacturing as a core strategic lever rather than a cost management exercise. Envisioning the Dark Factory what happens when we pull people out of the factory and what does this mean for society? Moderator Mark Podemski VP Development Wade Watson VP Operations Michael Chaney VP Product Supply Dr. Bob L. Zimering Director Lean Six Sigma 05:30-05:35 CHAIR S CLOSING REMARKS 05:35-07:00 NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION p4
PROGRAM DAY TWO: MARCH 11 08:00-08:30 BREAKFAST 08:30-08:40 CHAIRPERSON S OPENING REMARKS 08:40-09:20 KEYNOTE VALMONT S LEAN JOURNEY PEOPLE, PROCESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY Value stream mapping as an ongoing essential tool in driving lean transformation, understanding the Valmont way. Key steps to change management that help offset potential dips in the manufacturing process and production optimization. Developing a data centric approach to lean structure complexity and implementation time. Cultural enablers and Continuous Process Improvement as important variables in your Cost of Evaluation strategy. 09:20-10:00 Stephen LeGrand VP Operational Excellence & Corporate Officer PLENARY FACILITY OF THE FUTURE: LOOKING AT THE LONG-TERM PICTURE Modern manufacturing: How technology is transforming it. Consumer demand as a driver towards manufacturing agility and improved technology. Blurring the boundaries between research, design, production and services. Establishing improved integrated working relationships thought the value chain and across the product life-cycle. 10:00-10:35 Keving Nolan VP Technology HOW TO ENSURE ROI FROM YOUR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT APPROACH Deploying a CI model that generates immediate ROI and engages the workforce. Getting immediate line of sight to potential value capture from CI. Increasing enterprise-wide visibility into the status of CI and the value obtained from it. Driving individual employee accountability for improvement. STRATEGY CRITICAL FACILITY LOCATION PRACTICES TO MAXIMIZE PROFITABILITY Who do you need on your team to make the right choice in selecting a site for a new facility? How can you determine the most important factors in site selection and maximize profitability for your company? What should you be looking for as you visit sites or buildings? How can you keep the site selections on time and on budget? Roger Price CEO Jennifer Lantz Executive Director p5
10:35-11:25 NETWORKING AND REFRESHMENTS 11:25-12:00 PLENARY: CREATING A HIGH PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATION (HPO) IN YOUR MANUFACTURING DIVISION Driving Quality of management: developing actionable levels of accountability enterprise wide. Playing the long game through partnerships with suppliers and customers, extending long-term commitment to all stakeholders. Continuous improvement and renewal with a focus that simplifies and aligns its processes, innovating products and services and creating new sources of competitive advantage to respond to market changes. Developing a resilient and flexible workforce to enhance productivity, effectiveness and overall manufacturing performance. 12:00-12:35 Dennis Johnson Director Global Continuous Improvement TREK CUSTOM BICYCLES CASE: HOW TO REDUCE LEAD-TIMES IN HI-MIX OR CUSTOM PRODUCTION OPERATIONS Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) a methodology tailored for the task. Manufacturing Critical-path Time (MCT) a metric to measure systemic waste and improvement. Shop floor work Cells an organizational change to orient the team. Quick Response Office Cells (QROCs) how the upstream office can help out. Scott Forest Global Director of Continuous Improvement 12:35-01:45 STRATEGY WORKING WITH UNIVERSITIES FOR PEOPLE, IDEAS AND TOOLS OF THE FUTURE Understanding the faculty as an entrepreneur whose products are trained students and ideas and who knows the pulse of future disruptive technologies. Taking advantage of research enterprise built by universities. Integrating material research and manufacturing process and equipment research for sustainability. Jian Cao Associate VP for Research & Professor of Mechanical Engineering STRATEGY LUNCH Benefit from some additional networking and ask your questions about specific topics and at your dedicated Strategy Lunch. Places are limited so sign up in the registration area during DAY ONE and the morning of DAY TWO. 01:45-02:45 PLENARY: STRATEGY COMPETING IN A GLOBAL MARKET BY UNLEASHING THE CAPABILITY AND CREATIVITY OF YOUR TEAM How to gain and sustain competitiveness by building a Culture of Continuous Improvement. How to create the environment that enables your team to add maximum value. How to focus your team s energy to optimize your organization s rate of improvement. Thomas Hartman Senior Director Operations p6
02:25-03:05 CLOSING KEYNOTE HARNESSING TODAY S MANUFACTURING INNOVATION FOR THE BUSINESS OF TOMORROW How to utilize disruptive technology and spur innovation. Developing and leveraging the human capital needed to push the boundaries and challenge the status quo. Examining the Manufacturers who are the most innovative and ahead of the curve - what can we learn? 03:05-03:15 CHAIR S CONCLUDING REMARKS AND CLOSE OF SUMMIT Dean Bartles Executive Director Digital Manufacturing & Design Innovation Institute p7