Session ID:
VS2-06
Audience Rating: u Advanced
Company: Teleflex Canada
Speaker: William Marquis, Operations Manager
Title:

Teleflex’s Lean Manufacturing Journey.
Learn about the value of lean tools through the lean journey of Teleflex employees as they make changes to the culture and systems to achieve future state.

Presentation
Abstract : 		The presentation reviews the structured plan of implementation of Lean using metrics and data to drive resources in achieving Hoshin objectives. Teleflex began to document the current state of metrics and roles in their company and described a future state that aligns measurable data at all levels of the organization. Using Lean Production Systems, roles and responsibilities and principles of the House of Lean, they built a scorecard aimed at company strategic and financial success.
About the
Company:

Teleflex Incorporated is a diversified industrial company that is committed to creativity and innovation, building on new ideas and creating opportunities for profitable growth. For more than 60 years, we have grown by providing engineered products that help our customers meet their business requirements. Today we have annual revenues of $2.5 billion, operations in 24 countries, and more than 20,000 employees. Most important, we are leaders in many of our niche markets.

Speaker
Biography:

William Marquis, Operations Manager

William Marquis is the Operations Manager for Teleflex Canada in Richmond BC. He has nine years experience in manufacturing which includes working for Magna and Van Rob Stamping in the automotive industry. In addition, William has ten years experience as an entrepreneur. He is committed to teaching lean manufacturing as a way of consolidating his own learning.