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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2008
8:45am–12:15pm

Opening Remarks and Keynote Presentations

Steven Spear, PhD, Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and author of Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System, Harvard Business Review (1999)

Dan Dolan, Chief Operating Officer, Tinnerman Engineered Products

George Wyeth, Director of Policy and Program Change Division, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
12:15pm-1:00pm Luncheon
1:00pm-1:50pm General Session: How Small Deficiencies Can Lead to Big Consequences
2:00-6:00pm
WORKSHOPS		 Lean 101 Lean 201 Lean Office TPM Innovation
A1 Lean Fundamentals A2 Strategic Planning, Part 1 A3 Admin Value Stream Mapping, Part 1 A4 Autonomous Maintenance A5 Innovation Leadership
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008
7:00am-7:50am Leadership Forum and Daily Remarks
8:00am- 12:00pm
WORKSHOPS		 Lean 101 Lean 201 Lean Office TPM Innovation
B1 Value Stream Mapping A2 Strategic Planning, cont’d A3 Admin Value Stream Mapping, cont’d B2 Maintenance Manager 101 B3 The Strategy of Innovation
12:00pm-1:00pm Luncheon
1:00pm-5:00pm
WORKSHOPS		 Lean 101 Lean 201 Lean Office TPM Innovation
C1 Building a Cont. Improvement Culture Using 5S C2 Value Stream Management C3 Lean Admin. Simulation, Part 1 C4 Focused Improvement C5 Lean Innovation, Part 1
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2008
7:00am-7:50am Leadership Forum and Daily Remarks
8:00am-12:00pm
WORKSHOPS		 Lean 101 Lean 201 Lean Office TPM Innovation
D1 Standard Work D2 Value Stream Analysis C3 Lean Admin Simulation, cont’d D3 Maintenance Planning C5 Lean Innovation, cont’d
12:00pm-1:00pm Luncheon
1:00pm-5:00pm
WORKSHOPS		 Lean 101 Lean 201 Lean Office TPM Plant Tour Innovation
E1 Quick Changeover E2 Establishing Flow E3 Leading the Lean Enterprise E4 Maintenance Pillar of TPM E5 Lochinvar Corporation E6 Lean Product/Process Design Using 3P, Part 1
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008
7:30am-8:30am
CASE STUDIES
F1 Delta Faucet F2 Donnelly Custom Mfg. F3 Revere Copper Prod. F4 Miller Brewing F5 Alliance Compressors F6 Lean and the Environment at Plymouth Tube Company
Innovation
8:45am-9:45am
CASE STUDIES
G1 Whirlpool G2 Thomas & Betts Corp G3 Pelco Products G4 Kennametal G5 Dillon & Associates
E6 Lean Product/Process Design Using 3P, cont’d
(8:00am–12:00pm)
10:00am-11:00am
CASE STUDIES
H1 Lochinvar H2 Capital One Financial H3 Delta Airlines H4 GE Fanuc H5 Sensus Metering Systems H6 U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center
11:15am-12:15pm
CASE STUDIES		 I2 Snap-On Tools I3 Bally Technologies I4 Cascade Engineering
12:15pm-1:00pm Luncheon
1:00pm-5:00pm Lean 101 Lean 201 Lean Office TPM Innovation
J1 Team-Based Problem Solving J2 Mixed Model Kanban J3 Lean Office Through Kaizen J4 Cost Deployment...Beyond OEE J5 Four Fields Mapping
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008
7:00am-7:50am Leadership Forum and Daily Remarks
8:00am- 12:00pm
WORKSHOPS		 Lean 101 Lean 201 Lean Office TPM
K1 Intro to TPM K2 Leveling K3 Team-Based Problem Solving K4 Integrating TPM/Six Sigma
12:00pm-1:00pm Wrap Up