Edmonton 2007 Lean Conference ~ Bulletin #6
600 Lean Practitioners from 26 US States, 8 Canadian Provinces, & 6 Countries, attended in 2005

8 Top Keynoters with Powerful Messages

Douglas Rushkoff was one of the first social commentators to identify the impact of new media on culture, commerce, and communication. He will reveal the unprecedented opportunity to re-integrate our new perspective with the work we actually do. Instead of running around trying to "think outside the box," now is the time to "get back in the box" and improve the way we do our jobs, run our operations, and drive innovation from the ground up.

Tours Show Lean Improvements in Action

Lucerne Edmonton Ice Cream Plant – The Lucerne Edmonton Ice Cream Plant is part of the supply chain for Canada Safeway Ltd. Safeway is a leading grocery retailer in Western Canada, and is a subsidiary of Safeway Stores Inc. in the US. On this tour site you will see best practices in use such as Product waste and scrap reduction, Visual Manufacturing (posting of process details, posting of shift performance, daily staff meetings at start of shift) and 5S.

Inspiring Workshops Accelerate Your Journey

What roles do senior managers and other functional departments play in supporting a lean organization? - This half-day workshop addresses the frequent challenges that many companies face after 1 -2 years of adopting a kaizen philosophy. In this workshop Peter Kropf, & Keith Batie will focus specifically on non-production functions, including business owners, upper management, senior, management, supply chain and human resource management and the quality organization.

Visual Workplace … You Won’t Get Lean Until You Get Visual! -Rhonda Kovera will illustrate the differences bet-ween 5S and

Visual Workplace and provide a strategy that will eliminate information deficits in the workplace. You may not have realized it before now, but you won’t get lean – until you get visual.

36 Presentations in 4 Value Streams

The four streams focus on: People, Process, Culture, and Organization. Leaders have been selected from companies who have achieved success in these areas such as:

Continental Airlines, Chelsea Food Service Division - Continental Airlines, Chelsea Food Services Division set out on a Lean Journey due to a necessity after September 11 th. This presentation will discuss how with the Lean journey they utilized six super stars from the current team and encouraged full involvement from the top to the bottom of the organization. Continental has turned their costs around by creating a Lean environment in their catering kitchens.

 Barrick Gold - Their Lean journey started 5 years ago and today, they have over 70 full-time Continuous Improvement Coaches on 26 operations worldwide dedicated to supporting their journey from good to great. This presentation will explain how they started. What type of leadership and the approach used to get results and change the culture along the way. The presentation will also include how they are extending the implementation of Lean to the suppliers which in-effect is looking at improving the entire value stream

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for new program details as they unfold this week.

An Opportunity for the Next 30 Companies

If you are among the first of 30 companies to register4 team members - a5 th team member can come FREE .
There will be no other future promotions! Once 30 companies have signed up - all remaining registrations will be at the full price.

Register online at the conference website: www.measureupforsuccess.com
Or, simply call Edrea at 224-232-5980 x223