|
MONDAY, JUNE 21 SESSION ABSTRACTS |
SIX (6) Pre-Conference Workshops at Ford Conference & Event Center
SESSION TIMES: 1:00-2:30pm AND 3:00-4:30pm
(Advance Registration Required. No additional fee with full conference registration.)
Justifying Manufacturing Operations Management to Business Leaders
Charlie Gifford, Chief Manufacturing Consultant; 21st Century Manufacturing Solutions
Darren K. Riley, Sr., Manufacturing Consultant; Rockwell Automation
Dave Frede, Global Marketing Manager of Operations Management Software; GE Intelligent Platforms
(same session offered from 1:00-2:30pm AND 3:00-4:30pm)
Discuss with industry leaders and domain experts the topic of constructing a compelling business plan with a defendable ROI business justification for operations management systems in today's competitive market for scarce funds. Exchange ideas, ask questions and get answers! Understand how other companies attack the issue of justifying plant and corporate investments in Manufacturing IT projects and learn what tools and processes help.
End users, vendors and integrators must work together to build the adaptable 21st Century manufacturing plant for a "pull" economy. Only by working together can the best approach to justify operations management solutions for a sceptical business and/or IT leaders as THE methodology/technology combination for fast market response and creation can be achieved. Explained are how to quantify the form of operations process, its inefficiencies, its solutions alternatives/compromises, benefits and plant migration path. Also discussed are risk management and mitigation strategies, solution competition (internal/external), impact to decision makers, business drivers and the overall capital approval process. The discussion concludes with a specific discussion of the challenges of scoping and justifying an MES project to the CIO/CFO level of a company. Justification is not a software demo or even an ROI study, it is contextualizing the business value to the business drivers while quantifying the risk. The audience will be armed to understand and address the competition (internal and external) for scarce resources that exists in today's manufacturers.
MESA Education Program: Real-Time Enterprise, 11 Function Model and MES Product Selection
Mike James, MESA EMEA Treasurer; Group Managing Director, ATS International BV
(session runs from 1:00 - 4:30pm)
Both the user and supplier communities, who want to learn more about MES or who are interested in offering MES blended learning programs, can benefit from Mike James and Peter van Vliet. Learn from a captivating, interactive workshop, touching on three subjects:
Real-Time Enterprise - one of the drivers for an MES business case. During this session, come to understand how MES can turn the plant into a truly responsive and dynamic part of the overall supply chain.
The Famous 11 Function Model - it's been around for years. During this session you will learn about how important and robust the 11 Function Model is and how it can be used to define your MES implementation.
MES Product Selection - every organization is different, yet there are some fundamental rules for choosing the right product for your plant or plants. Attend this session and learn how to make the right choice.
Working Session for MESA's Quality and Regulatory Compliance Guidebook
Khris Kammer, Sr. Information Solutions Consultant, Rockwell Automation
(session offered from 3:00-4:30pm ONLY)
Join Khris Kammer and other members of MESA's working group, working to finalize this guidebook for a live discussion and review session based on the current draft. This will be a working session - essentially a live version of the conference calls attended by the working group members as they have authored the paper thus far. The intent is to discuss final changes or additions that should be considered prior to publication. Bring your creativity, an open mind, and any experience that might add value to this upcoming MESA work.
Performance Management Benchmark, Practices and Roadmap
Mitchell Weisberg, Managing Director, Lumen, Inc.
(session runs from 1:00 - 4:30pm)
Most companies fail to achieve the goals of their performance management program because they don't consider their organization's readiness. Participants will learn how to adapt metrics initiatives to their organization's performance management maturity and to increase the likelihood that their dashboards are supported by strong methodology, metrics, and data, and that they are used. We will evaluate your organization's metrics methodology/process, automation/data and organization/culture. Participants will use data from actual workshop attendees to benchmark their performance management maturity relative to cross-industry benchmarks and to other (anonymous) attendees at the MESA Conference. The interactive session will enable participants to hear first-hand from colleagues on what works with deploying metrics and what doesn't.
In this workshop you will share challenges and solutions, while receiving insights from each other. Mr. Weisberg will add the best practices and observations to create a session that will be both powerful and pragmatic.
Participants will leave this workshop with immediate actions they can take home to enhance the value of their performance management programs. Participants will be requested to complete a brief confidential online assessment in advance of the workshop, however individual data will be confidential and only collective data will be shared.
General conference attendees not attending the workshop will have the opportunity to complete a confidential Performance Management Maturity Assessment and will receive an individual summary report.
Survive to Thrive
Jan Snoeij, MESA EMEA Working Group Chair; Principal Consultant, Logica
(session offered from 1:00 - 2:30pm ONLY)
Given the current economic situation, surviving has become the sole aim for many manufacturers. Too often their policies are limited to drastic cost cutting activities without a clear vision of how to achieve operations excellence and thrive. In the last decade before the crisis, however, trends like shorter product life cycles, globalization of the market, expanding regulations and increasing price pressure strongly influenced the policy of industrial companies. Today, it is even more important to be addressing these challenges, ready for when the upturn occurs.
Companies that lead in demand-supply chain management show superior business performance and deliver superior shareholder value. Value-stream-mapping, lean, kan-ban, TOC, six sigma and TPM are accepted methods to improve Supply Chain and Manufacturing performance: methods that focus on optimizing the material flows and availability of assets. Surprisingly, the related information streams are frequently left untouched. This is remarkable, while optimizing, performance necessitate that the right people, get the right information at the right moment; in other words: provide the right overview and insight to take the best possible decisions to evolve performance levels. Above clients and suppliers in the demand-supply chain count on accurate information these days. Many companies are aware of the room for improvement, but quite a few lack time and routine to succeed in implementing change. Providing the right information, in the right format, at the right moment, to the right person, is key for enabling integrated decision making and execution.
"It's not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones that are the most responsive to change," according to Darwin. If you want to improve, you even need to initiate change! In this Survive to Thrive workshop, you will learn more about the activities required to effectively manage that change, like:
• Build a shared vision to mobilize your organization
• Find out where the major opportunities are
• Identify the indicators which secure improvement of your production and correlate to improved business performance
• Create end-to-end scenarios that ensure implementation of vision and business strategy goals and subsequently shape the to-be architecture
• Evaluating what is the best software for you to use
• Ensure return on investment and establish new ways to get more value from your Manufacturing IT
The best practices and explicit examples presented in this workshop are based on the results and experience of a large number of projects in various industrial sectors.
Optimizing Manufacturing with MES
Rob Markevics, Director, MES Discrete Business Development; Siemens
(session offered from 3:00-4:30pm ONLY)
ABSTRACT COMING
EVENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION AND BANQUET
Reception begins at 5:00pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Game Plan for Success
Lou Holtz, Legendary Coach and ESPN Analyst
One of the most celebrated and accomplished coaches in sports history, Lou Holtz has made a career of inspiring others and motivating them to be winners. Most notable for taking the struggling Notre Dame football program and building it into being a national powerhouse, Holtz is the only coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings. Holtz's humor and humility endear him to his listeners as he helps them learn to assess their strengths, work as a team and embrace the values that can help improve organizations. Whether it's helping people understand what's important, encouraging people to hold themselves accountable or making leaders of followers, Holtz's advice puts audiences on the road to achievement. Holtz currently brings his experience and charisma to ESPN as an analyst for the network's college football coverage. He is also the author of the best-selling Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success, The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame and Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography. Click here to read full bio.
