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Roy Firestone
Tuesday, May 16,
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Sponsored by Chevron
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Emmy® Award-winning broadcaster, entertainer
and author Roy Firestone will present his Up
Close show during the opening general session.
The program encompasses the best of sports and entertainment
in a way that will make you laugh and leave you inspired. Logging 22 years
with ESPN, Firestone has interviewed more than 3,000 people, including
nearly every major sports figure. What you may not know is that Firestone
is also an accomplished singer, impressionist and humorist. You won’t want
to miss this entertaining and energetic kick-off to a great week!
Sponsored by
Tuesday - May 16, Noon
Taking Six Sigma to the Extended Enterprise for Strategic Gains
Rusty Patterson, Vice President, Raytheon
A knowledge based process using six sigma tools is in place
and transforming the culture at Raytheon. In this keynote, Six
Sigma and Customer Supply Chain V.P. Rusty Patterson will
share how six sigma concepts are being applied across the entire value stream including suppliers, customers and partners to deliver quantifiable bottom line results.
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Mark Birmingham |
Wednesday - May 17, Noon
“Walk A Mile in Their Shoes”
John Stollenwerk, President and CEO;
Mark Birmingham Chief Operating Officer
Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation
98.5 percent of shoes consumed in the U.S. are
imported. How can an American manufacturer compete?
Top leaders from Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation, including CEO John Stollenwerk and COO Mark Birmingham, will explain how this company has thrived through leadership, rigorous standards and lean manufacturing.
Thursday - May 18, 11:30am
The Five Signs of Lubrication Excellence
Jim Fitch, President and CEO, Noria Corporation
The financial and operating benefits of a sound lubrication program
are well-documented. Yet few manufacturing professionals
can identify the tell-tale signs that their lube program is inetuned
and hitting on all cylinders – or conversely missing badly.
Join industry leader Jim Fitch as he describes his vision of a high-performance, ROI producing lubrication program, and shares his five-step plan for driving your plant towards lubrication excellence.
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How Reliability Helps Drive Our Plants:
Views from the Top
Wednesday, May 17 8:00 - 9:50am
If your plant’s reliability initiative doesn’t have the support and backing of
corporate management, you are fighting a losing battle. Do they know the
good that you do or can do? In this plenary panel discussion, we have assembled
a half-dozen industry leaders - corporate vice presidents and presidents
who understand the important role equipment asset reliability plays in
achieving the company’s objectives (profit, shareholder value, customer satisfaction, risk management, profit, etc.). They will share how they view reliability and what they expect from it.
Moderator:
Dan Bradley - Director, SKF Reliability Systems
Panelists:
- John Stollenwerk, President and CEO, Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation
- George Stoe, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Worthington Industries
- Ole B. Dam, Vice President of Operations, Antioch Company
- John Winch, President and Chief Executive Officer, Minster Machine Company
- Joe Tisone, Vice President of Global Operations, Energizer
Movin’ On Up: Plant Managers that Get Reliability
Thursday, May 18 8:00 - 9:50am
Plant managers stay in tune with dozens of manufacturing metrics. These
metrics help them understand the true health and productivity of their plant.
But is reliability one of the important items being tracked? If not, a huge
opportunity - for maintenance, production and the plant as a whole - is being
missed. In this plenary panel discussion, a handful of plant managers discuss
what helped them see the light in terms of reliability’s impact on total site
operations. They get it. Does your plant management?
Moderator:
Paul Arnold, Editor, Reliable Plant Magazine
Panelists:
- Pat Gathman, Plant Manager, Cargill
- David Mason, Plant Manager, Georgia Pacific
- David Thompson, President, Kennedy Manufacturing
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