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NOTICE OF MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Location:
The Plainsman Restaurant, Hwy. 5, 3 km west of Hwy. 6, Dundas Agenda:
Non-member guests are welcome
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| Lean thinking has, and remains to be, a cornerstone of the continual improvement movement behind real and lasting value stream management. The size of the prize to those organizations that are truly committed is without parallel. However, the “lean as a lifestyle” journey is difficult and for the uneducated and/or unprepared lean practitioner it is one strewn with roadblocks along the way. Having a sufficiently robust, strategic plan of deployment based on the sequential realization of the five lean principles: understanding customer value, analyzing the value stream, improving product flow, developing pull systems, and the pursuit of excellence, is not enough. Success, as measured through long-term sustainability requires that those assigned the responsibility for effectively achieving the plan not only have a sound grasp of the lean toolbox (5S, TPM, SMED, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, etc.), but also the added knowledge, experience and skills of enterprise thinking, adaptation, innovation, collaboration and influence. Only lean people can make a lean enterprise, and the focus of this presentation is on learning how to become a lean person. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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For More Information Please Contact |
Greg
MacDougall in his current role as Manager,
Total Quality Systems is responsible for the direction of quality management
and continual improvement at Cogent Power, a division of Corus, located in
Burlington.
He has been with the company four years most recently with the added
assignment of lean, being certified in 2004 as a Lean Coach through the Lean
Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School in the UK.
Greg has found the rigors of the Cardiff training in association with
Cogent’s continued partnership with this group to be instrumental in his
management of the constant demands of an emerging lean organization.
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