10 Special Interest Sessions
The Practitioner Idea Exchange Café is a great example of one of our 10 Special Interest Sessions. If you do not feel ready for a prime time presentation but would like to present some of your company's best practices, the Practitioner Idea Exchange Café provides you with the opportunity to share and learn in six facilitated Continuous Improvement sessions. This peer-to-peer learning café-style forum has received rave reviews and promises to be one of the highlights in Baltimore. The Practitioner Idea Exchange Café is exclusively for the sharing of Continuous Improvement ideas between practitioners. There are two ways in which practitioner attendees to the AME Annual International Lean Conference can participate. You can post a best practice on the café walls. 1. Bring your examples with you to the conference, attach your business card to them and then use the masking tape in the Café to post your best practices, program outline or visual example documents. Promotional or advertising material is not permitted in the Café. 2. Attend one of six facilitated sessions. During these sessions, the attendees are the presenters. A facilitator will guide the conversation so as many attendees as possible can either contribute to the idea sharing or ask questions to harvest ideas to take back to their facility.
It is time to complete the cycle and engage your front-end team members in creating a complete Lean Enterprise! The Lean Enterprise is neither complete, nor as successful, unless you address the front end of your value streams - product/service development and customer knowledge. Many organizations struggle with how to be ‘Lean' in product development. Work in that area is different, as are the highly technical experts who do the work - engineers, scientists, software developers, designers, creative and research types. Their needs and approach to tools and Lean practices may be different, BUT the fundamental principles apply and are key to a vibrant enterprise.
This series of Special Interest Sessions will to help you determine what it means to be ‘Lean' in development and translate it into a successful framework for your organization. Through a series of interactive sessions, dialogue, learning and networking sessions, you will go back to your organizations armed with a roadmap to complete your Lean enterprise that you will have helped create. So what does it take to make Excellent product development in a Lean Enterprise for your organization? Bring your development team to figure that out!
Session 1 - 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Developing a Framework for Lean in Product Development (Beginner)
Presentation by Jim Luckman
Session 2 - 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Three Pillars of Excellence (Beginner/Intermediate)
This session dives deeper into the three pillars of knowledge and skills that drive results, with three presentations:
Flow from Concept to Launch - Andy Krupp, National Instruments
- addresses how to create fast learning cycles and integration events.
Robust Product Knowledge - Dr. Durwood Sobek
- provides the methods for gathering critical knowledge.
Knowledge Capture & Continuous Improvement - A. Kennedy
- knowledge capture and reuse builds organizational capabilities to support your product portfolio and accelerate future learning.
Session 3 - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Dialogue on Making Excellent Product Development Happen (All Levels)
Open Forum, Tricia Sutton, Facilitator; Speakers from Sessions 1 and 2 and Dan Shoenhair, Ping
Open forum to refine the framework and explore how to make it happen:
- How do you get started?
- Dealing with roadblocks.
- How does leadership get engaged?
- What was the single biggest impact?
- How long does it take to get results?
- Dealing with expectations for instant gratification.
Statistical software programs have a proven track record of benefiting the bottom line of an organization. This year’s conference, Minitab will be demonstrating with hands-on interaction the capabilities of their All-in-One Statistical Software and if a statistical software system is right for your organization.
Minitab will be hosting two separate Special Interest Sessions; one session focusing on the Tips and Tricks that will help you navigate their program easier, taking full advantage of what a statistical software system has to offer, while the second separate session will cover what is new in the upcoming Minitab 16 version.
If you use Statistical Analysis or are considering the investment in the future, this Special Interest Session is a must to attend. Both sessions will be one hour in length.
Join this special session to understand and learn more about the AME, SME, The Shingo Prize and ASQ Lean Certification Program.
This first hour of this session will feature a success story on how Halliburton integrated the Lean Certification program into their culture with measurable results! An overview of the Lean Certification Program will precede the presentation by David Swiderski, Manufacturing Excellence Manager, LBC, who will explain the journey of how the company leveraged the Lean Certification Program as a framework for its Lean leaders.
The last hour will comprise of an interactive portfolio Q&A session, including writing tips and knowledge sharing. It will be moderated by Lean COA members, who will share their portfolio experiences for each levels of certification. Your portfolio documents both the project's results and personal growth and development experienced through your Lean journey. Bring questions and share with others your Lean certification experience.
Use this valuable information as a springboard for Lean conversation in your own organizations or to start your own Lean certification journey.
Lab #1 - Getting Started: A User-Centric Approach to Business Process Improvement
Whether you are embarking on your first project or launching a new one, picking the right project and building the right plan are key. In this interactive session, design experts from Global 360 will work through a mock project, starting with the selection and justification of the process initiative. We will then focus on how to drive your process improvement, by documenting your processes and designing new ones, using Visio as a mapping tool. Throughout, we will share approaches to accelerate and sustain adoption by employing a user-centric approach.
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify key aspects of a project that make it ripe for process automation
- Build a business justification for a project
- Take a user-centric design approach to accelerate discovery and adoption
- Rapidly define your solution using process visualization, collaboration and mapping tools like Visio 2010, SharePoint and analystView
- Use configurable tools to build user-centric workbenches and manager dashboards
Lab #2 – Using Business Process Analysis Technology for Continuous Improvement
Interested in Business Process Management (BPM) techniques and Business Process Analysis (BPA) tools? This session be conducted by business process experts from Global 360 and will focus on business and operations analyst who want to use BPA to perform Continuous Improvement activities. We will share approaches for revisiting the user experience to further improve key business processes. We will then focus on methods to ensure changes are rapidly adopted and also retained over time, within the organization. Participants will have the opportunity for hands-on interaction with methods and technology that can take your continuous improvement efforts to the next level.
Participants will learn how to:
- Use advanced analytics and simulation to continuously improve your processes
- Apply a user-centric approach to revisiting processes for continuous improvement
- Use visibility tools to set and monitor KPIs (key performance indicators)
- Extend process improvement using BPM tools to gather performance metrics
- Learn about Visio-based simulation and leveraging BPMN
All attendees of both sessions will receive a free copy of Global 360’s analystView, the new Visio-based simulation tool available with Microsoft Office Visio 2010. We look forward to seeing you!
Speakers: Donna Tellam , Director of Technology and User Experience, Global 360
Speaker TBA, Solutions Specialist, Global 360.
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), along with the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC), have established a benchmarking Community of Practice. Created by the founding partners: AME, APQC, Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. The purpose of this Special Interest Session is to provide an open forum for organizations and individuals to come together and share ideas and best practices.
Designed to help transform its members from casual (industrial tourists) to highly effective benchmarking practitioners. Two of the biggest barriers to an organization starting their benchmarking journey to excellence are: 1) finding a group of trusted peers who are interested in benchmarking, and 2) actually starting the process.
This special session will feature the AME Manufacturing Award winners, who will be sharing with others their best practices on their journey to enterprise excellence, and the value of participating in the AME Manufacturing Excellence Award Process. Then, the National Association for Manufacturers will share a study dealing with manufacturing operations, here and abroad, and how companies are rebalancing them. The trend of re-shoring will be discussed, with an explanation of how to make an informed business decision using the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)Tool.
You already have a 100% money-back guarantee that you will gain value from this Conference. This year’s conference offers even more to anyone looking for Consortia-related value. In addition to the world-class value the 2010 Conference will provide, you will be able to choose from a menu of 9 value-adding activities and events that will enhance your Consortia experience and take-away value!
It all begins with the Consortia Reception from 5 - 7pm on Monday, November 15th, where introductions, networking and exchanges will explode! In addition to meeting everyone, each Consortium will share a quick snap-shot of their ‘best practice’ which you may find of interest. And this is just the beginning.
Keep a sharp eye out for coming Consortia details and be prepared to select from this year’s largest ever Consortia Menu of value. For starters the program includes:
- A designated Pin to recognize all Consortia members
- Monday night’s Consortia Reception
- A get-to-know-each-other seating arrangement on the first day (Tuesday)
- Wednesday morning, you will be able to attend Steven Spear’s workshop on how to gain your “High Velocity Edge”
- Meeting nightly in your own Consortia Room to review the day and prepare for the next
- Two, one-on-one opportunities for you to meet and talk directly with world-renowned experts, like Steven Spear and George Koenigsaecker - for George, be sure to bring along your questions/issues on ‘making Lean transformations successful’
- Access to some of Plant Tours hosted by Maryland Consortium member companies
- A course on ‘How to start your own Consortium’ for those not members of a Consortium who want to know how to get started
- Learn how AME plans to support Consortia in the future
Although there will not be additional charges for these events, you will be asked to register, as space will be limited on the workshops. Details on how to do this will be coming shortly.
North American Consortiums are expanding. And the driving force is competitiveness and profitability, which requires the acceleration of innovation and continuously improving value provided to the customer. Consortiums are providing needed leverage of human and physical resources of other non-competing companies faced with the need to compete and win in the global market place. For many Consortium members, it means accelerating the velocity of their journey to world class and that means adopting a common language of Value and Lean Thinking.
What is social media? As a Lean professional, how do I use social media to effectively share ideas and make my team more productive?
Presented by members of AME’s social media council, Social Media for Business will offer two hour-and-a-half-long sessions for conference attendees. One, a beginner's session, will discuss LinkedIn and how easy it can be to connect and collaborate with fellow Lean and operations professionals. The second session, for advanced social media users, will include a recap of various social media platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) and their use for business. The advanced session will also explain the fundamentals of AMEConnect, AME’s private social network. You will learn how to share documents with fellow association members, start your own blog and exchange messages with association members.
Come participate in a hands-on event! Learning Kaizens give you the opportunity to spend a day offsite, working under the direction of an experienced kaizen facilitator, and alongside employees from the host site, to improve a process of the host site’s choosing. This year, there are two day-long Learning Kaizen opportunities – one at the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday, November 16th and one at Northrop Grumman on Thursday, November 18th.
Attendance for each event will be limited to a small number of participants learning together in a dynamic environment. Experienced subject matter experts will help guide participants through the day’s activities.
You will leave the hotel in the morning and return in the afternoon, after having assisted with improvement initiatives at one of these sites. Detailed schedules will be here soon!
USHUD - Learning Kaizen
Tuesday, November 16th
Government agencies must become more productive in response to increasing customer demand, and likewise proficient regarding what these customers want and when they need it. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has been working to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its processes, through relentless Continuous Improvement involving customer participation, and recognizes its remarkable effect on their organization and the satisfaction of its customer partners! Share in this USHUD success story.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN - Learning Kaizen
Thursday, November 18th
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, located in Linthicum, Maryland, is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of advanced electronics for military, civil and commercial use. The sector provides a variety of defense electronics and systems, airspace management systems, navigation systems, precision weapons, communications systems, marine systems, space systems, government systems and logistics services. Northrop Grumman’s vision is to be the preferred global security and infrastructure solutions provider, and to be number one in terms of creating value for its customers, owners, partners and people.
The company’s mission is to provide the best solutions for sensing, understanding, anticipating and controlling the environment, enabling rapid, overwhelming advantage for its customers and their operations.
