Session Highlights
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Seattle, Washington
Jonathan Geiger
Director, Future Airplane Production
Boeing Commercial Airplanes' recently-introduced 787 Dreamliner
raises the bar for global collaboration and for Boeing's next frontier,
the lean dream production system. As independent companies have
improved their operations and are becoming more productive, the next
horizon of lean opportunities is in overall system performance of the
interconnected and interdependent supply chain networks. Geiger
discussed the challenges and opportunities that Boeing faces in
creating a system that most efficiently transforms customer
requirements and raw materials into commercial aerospace products.
Boeing Executive Summary (22.0 kB pdf)
Medtronics Global Business Solutions
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Renee Cveykus, Senior Finance Manager/Master Black Belt
Rick Pottratz, Director of Finance
Medtronic's unique blend of Lean and Six Sigma principles have been
strategically applied to core financial processes across the company's
seven global businesses. Cveykus, a Lean Sigma Black Belt, and Pottratz
shared this Lean journey through their participation in "waves" of
training classes that developed the infrastructure so necessary for
change. They discussed the implementation of a new IT system that
accelerated the rapid adoption of Lean Sigma, and how manufacturing
process improvements were applied to accounts payable transactions.
Medtronic Executive Summary (21.2 kB pdf)
Poli-Film America, Inc.
Hampshire, Illinois
Gary Mooney, Materials Manager
Geoff Davis, President
Poli-Film America produces polyethylene-based adhesive-coated
surface protection film for a broad range of industry sectors. Facing a
national economic downturn linked to the desperate need to switch
direction and philosophy, the management team set about a program of
change under new leadership in 2003. Within four years Poli-Film
America more than doubled sales volume, tripled manufacturing
throughput rates, and consistently increased profitability. Mooney and
Davis detailed how this success is supported by wholly-owned regional
sales and distribution warehousing linked to a central ERP system.
Poli-Film Executive Summary (30.7 kB pdf)
Topflight Corporation
Glen Rock, Pennsylvania
Nancy McHenry
Vice President of Supply Chain
Topflight Corporation specializes in printing and converting
flexible materials, and increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of
the business systems surrounding those products. It is a worldwide
producer of specialty information and signal delivery, including
printed labels and conductives, RFID labels, and security solutions.
The company's "Operation Eliminate", the result of an ERP-to-ERP data
interchange utilizing real-time client information for production runs,
eliminates the need for inventory, lead times, lot sizes, purchase
orders, invoices and warehousing. McHenry described Operation
Eliminate's production value and its strategic value in eliminating
steps in the supply chain and providing opportunities for total cost
reduction.
Topflight Executive Summary (21.6 kB pdf)
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