Siemens MR Magnet Technology

Find out how kaizen has helped Siemens boost the number of magnets produced per employee by 100% and make sweeping reductions in inventory value.

The plant supplies magnet technology to life saving MRI scanners and a stunning improvement effort helped the site to a Best Factory Awards double two years ago. Over 70 lean projects have saved more than 7,500 hours in production time since 2009. The campaign has delivered six figure cost savings and helped Siemens pay back on the significant capital investment required to develop magnet technology. Half of the overall savings have been distributed back to employees through a recognition based reward scheme. The employees have earned every penny with staff suggestions netting a £4.4 million saving and counting.

Agenda

09:30 – 10:00 Arrival and registration
10:00 - 10:45 Introduction to Siemens Magnet Technology
10:45 - 12:00 Our Lean Journey
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch and Networking
12:30 - 14.30 Smaller Group Factory Tours to include;

• Factory Orientation - our product and process flow
• Overview of our Lean Improvement Projects
• Actual Lean Projects from our Cell Leaders
• Aligning ‘everyone’ to our Business KPI’s

14:30 - 15:00 Questions, Feedback and Close

Event Dates:

Wednesday April 17th 2013

Event Location: Eynsham, Oxfordshire

Individual Ticket Price: £350 per place excluding VAT
Bookings of 3 or more people: £315 per place excluding VAT

Limited to 30 places per visit

• Winner:

• 2012 Best Engineering Plant
• 2012 Supply Chain Award
• 2012 Innovation Award
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• Highly Commended:

• 2012 Skills Development Award

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Aimia Foods

Britain’s official Best Factory opens the doors of its all conquering Haydock site. The plant mixes market leading innovation with manufacturing excellence. The site is eternally adding value delivering £4m growth to one customer by improving the client’s original product design. Aimia has just created new easy open opercule cups for airlines that will make watching the cabin crew struggling to get the foil out your brew a thing of the past.

The Haydock site is an exemplar of Six Sigma, using data to eliminate manufacturing waste and win business.

However, it’s the men and women at Haydock who really earned Aimia its Factory of the Year crown at this year’s Best Factory Awards. An astute management team have fostered a target smashing shopfloor through the development of transparent daily objectives that pull towards a grander corporate strategy. The success has been powered by the adoption of Hoshin Kanri, which has banished non value adding activity and high performance work teams who are the engine room of improvement activity that has generated over 250,000 in savings.

Find out what it takes to turn your factory into the best by signing up to the Aimia tour.

Agenda

09:30 – 09:45 Welcome in reception, tea/coffee and Team picture.
09:45 – 10:00 Introductions.

10:00 - 10:15 Hoshin Deployment and Company Video.
10:15 - 10:30 Prepare for Gemba walk.
10:30 - 10:50 Corridor and SFDC tour with Patrick Mroczak.
10:50 - 11:30 Factory Gemba Walk with Dry production team.

11:30 - 11:50 Engineering workshop visit.
11:50 - 12:10 Factory Gemba Walk with Malt Vault production team.

12:10 - 12:30 Factory Tour with Wet Blending and Production team.
12:30 - 13.00 Lunch.

13:00 - 13:30 Questions and Answers.
13.30 - 14:30 Break out session. Time to look further into what aspects of the tour you are most interested in.

14:30 - 15:00 Close out session.

If you are interested in visiting Aimia Foods, please email jknox@findlay.co.uk and if we secure another date, we will let you know first.

Event Location: St Helens, Merseyside

Individual Ticket Price: £350 per place excluding VAT
Bookings of 3 or more people: £315 per place excluding VAT

Limited to 10 places per visit

Winner:

Toyota Material Handling Factory of the Year 2012
2012 Best Household & General Products Plant
2012 Best SME
2012 People Management Award (joint)

Renishaw

Visit iconic Renishaw plant

Take a tour of the UK’s top electronics & electrical plant, which exports a host of world beating metrology products across the globe.

Renishaw has been a powerhouse in the world of metrology since the touch trigger probe was invented by the firm’s co founder Sir David McMurtry in 1973.

Renishaw’s showpiece Woodchester assembly plant in Gloucestershire manufactures over 840,000 products a year including strain gauge probes, scanning probes and laser tool setters.

The Woodchester factory wowed judges at the 2012 Best Factory Awards with its impressive supply chain management, which has delivered zero stock holding and £850,000 savings. Judges also noted outstanding strategic operations planning and class leading automated technology as they awarded the site the Best Electronics & Electrical plant prize.

Attend this tour and you’ll see how:
-Next-day customer service expectations dictate a five-week finished goods stock policy
-Woodchester produces 70,000 different assemblies each month (batches from one to 5,000)
-Advanced Planning and Scheduling is used to control manufacturing and help to ‘see’ several months ahead

Agenda

10:45 - Arrival - coffee & biscuits
11:15 - Presentation
12:15 - Buffet Lunch
13:00 - Tours of the factory
14:00 - Q&A and refreshments
14:45 - Depart

If you are interested in visiting Renishaw, please email jknox@findlay.co.uk and if we secure another date, we will let you know first.

Event Location: Woodchester, Gloucestershire

Individual Ticket Price: £350 per place excluding VAT
Bookings of 3 or more people: £315 per place excluding VAT

Limited to 15 places per visit

Winner:

Best Electronics & Electrical Plant