60 Practitioner-to-Practitioner Presentations

Learning directly from your peers who have lived through real world experiences is the most powerful way to increase your knowledge. AME members are dedicated to improving the competitiveness of their organizations. By sharing, learning and networking we increase our ability to grow our businesses. The ultimate goal is to achieve the highest return possible on our investment of time and effort.

Value Stream 1
FUNDAMENTALS OF LEAN

• Building Our Future on Foundations of Lean
• Fixed Cycle Mixed Model Scheduling
• Lean Implementation from a Value Stream Perspective
• Lean Success in a Low-Volume/High-Mix Manufacturing Environment
• Lean Tools and Cellular Manufacturing
• Quick and Simple Simulations
• STOP! The transformative power of encouraging your employees to stop the line
• Weighted Average Lead Time (WALT)

Value Stream 2
SUSTAINING LEAN & DELIVERING RESULTS

• Develop and Sustain Your Lean Strategy through Employee Ownership
• Integrating Safety into Lean
• Leader Standard Work - The Key to Sustainment
• Lean Away from Landfill
• The Journey to Go Lean
• The ShawCor Manufacturing System (SMS)
• Value Stream Management Magic
• Wrecking Yard Lean

Value Stream 3
LEADERSHIP, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, CULTURE

• Building and Sustaining the Improvement Kata
• Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement Using A3s
• Getting Your CI Projects on the Fast Track
• Leveraging a Sustainable Lean Transformation through Policy Deployment
• On the Mend
• The Art of Effective Lean Communication
• Using Policy Deployment to Drive Cultural Change
• Visual Management at ESCO
• You Say "Lean," I Think "Change"

Value Stream 4
LEAN BEYOND MANUFACTURING

• A Different Kind of Manufacturer - Lean in the California Oil Fields
• Applying Lean Thinking to Service Value Streams in Banking
• Lean for Better Lending
• Lean Implementation: 40 Hospitals, 50,000 Employees, 24 Months - No Problem!
• Leveraging Lean Across Your Entire Supply Chain
• Our Journey on the Road to Perfect Care — From Vision to Reality
• Profiting from Lean in the Non-Profit World
• Statewide Collaboration to Improve Emergency Department Patient Flow
• To Flow or Not to Flow

Value Stream 5
OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO LEAN

• A Journey to Lean Overhaul at an Endoscopy Practice
• Do We Turn Back Now or Press On with Lean?
• Navigating Lean in a Challenging World
• Resistance at Every Level
• See the Obstacle - Don’t be the Obstacle
• Starting Over
• Swimming up the Value Stream
• Three Strikes and You’re Out
• What Happens When Irresistible Change Meets Immovable Resistance?

Value Stream 6
COLLABORATIVE & INNOVATIVE LEAN

• Accelerating through the Learning Curve with Cross-Sector Collaboration
• Community Collaboration Builds Workforce of the Future
• Creating Value In the Supply Chain - Creating Strategic Relationships
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Increasing Innovation Opportunities through Lean
• Internal Collaboration to Drive External Customer Success
• Lean PD — Lessons Learned from the First Two Years
• Legos Equals Engagement
• Toyota Supported Non-Automotive TPS Applications

6 Featured Keynote Speakers

An AME conference provides the added value of hearing true leaders of industry and society provide inspiration and knowledge. These are people who throughout their lives and careers understand the power of building Excellence Inside. Here are three of the six. As the other three are confirmed we will post them here.

• Captain Mark Kelly
  Mark Kelly became the center of international attention after the January 2011 assassination attempt on his wife, former U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
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• Mike Abrashoff
  Mike Abrashoff took command of the worst-performing ship in the fleet. He made it #1 by changing his leadership style and the culture, not the crew.
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• Jason Jennings
  Jason Jennings is one of the most successful and prolific business and leadership authors in the world.
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• Doctor Patricia A. Gabow
  Dr. Patricia Gabow is nationally recognized for her work in increasing access to basic health care for all Coloradans, particularly those who are underserved, most of whom are women and children.
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• Daniel T. Ariens
  Dan Ariens, great-grandson of Ariens Inc. founder Henry Ariens, joined the company in 1983 and became president and CEO in 1998.
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• Daniel H. Pink
  Daniel Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work.
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35 Best Practice Plant Tours

From its inception, AME has been unlocking the doors of the best factories around North America to manufacturers that are hungry for knowledge. Our hosts graciously open their doors so their employees can proudly show others what they have achieved.

• Abbott - FULL
• Ace Metal Crafts - FULL
• Bimba Manufacturing Company - FULL
• Douglas Dynamics
• FedEx Corporation - FULL
• MillerCoors

• PortionPac Chemical Corp. and Chicago Center for Green Technology
• S&C Electric Company
• StandFast Group, LLC
• Winzeler Gear - FULL
• X Acme Alliance, LLC - FULL
• X Bison Gear & Engineering - FULL

• X Cancer Treatment Centers of America
• X Caterpillar, Inc. (Aurora) - FULL
• X Chicago Tribune - FULL
• X DE-STA-CO - Camco
• X Elkay Manufacturing Company
• X Navistar, Inc.

• X Rexnord Gear
• X Senior Flexonics
• X Tri-State Industries, Inc.
• X Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
• X University of Chicago Medicine
• X Whiting Corporation

40 Insightful Workshops

All AME Workshops are led by some of industry’s leading consultants. Experts that share lean knowledge that you get to borrow with pride. Learn from proven solutions that show how innovative, lean practical thinking can help transform complex processing challenges. Each AME Workshop leader is selected based on his/her industry-endorsed reputation. Enjoy the learning.

Special Interest Sessions

• The Idea Exchange Café
• AME Revitalization of Manufacturing Initiative
• Discovering Lean Certification
• AME/APQC Benchmarking Community of Practice (BCoP)
• Voice of the Customer
• Employee Ownership Plan

Featured SIS

• Once again, the Idea Exchange Café will be open for the interactive sharing of best practices among all participants. There will be six facilitated sessions on a variety of relevant topics taking place over two days. Come for the coffee - stay for the ideas! (read more...)