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Mike Baker
Mike is a Senior Field Service Advisor with the Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC). During his 6 years with EMC he has facilitated and launched consortiums all across Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Mike's background includes public and private sector work in Canada and overseas in human resources, employment, training, education and the humanities over the past twenty five years. Mike possesses a unique ability to establish relationships with key stakeholders at all levels of industry and mobilize people to engage in the activities EMC delivers. |
Stanley ShantzMr. Shantz has been assisting International Fortune 1000 companies within the Manufacturing, Utilities Distribution, Electrical Generation, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG), Mining, Service and Governmental (facility and fleet management) sectors; to develop and implement reliable, sustainable and cost effective Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives - without major capital investment - based on Their Company's Goals, Directives and Objectives. The focus of Stan's work has centered on the realization for the need to create a culture that empowers managers to "Manage The People, Who Manage Your Assets™". |
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Andy HoffmanAndy has held operational senior management positions at multi-national registrars throughout his career, including KPMG Quality Registrars Inc. as Vice-President of Operations. He brings over 30 years of experience in management systems as a second and third party auditor. He regularly audits and provides training throughout North America and has spent significant amounts of time with world class organizations involved in aerospace, automotive, banking, consulting, law, manufacturing, marketing, road construction and engineering, and vehicle construction. |
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This blog is for Presidents, CEO's, Plant Managers, Production Managers, Continuous Improvement Leaders, Quality Managers, Lead Hands, Supervisors, Health & Safety, HR Managers...everyone in your business today who has a critical function in manufacturing.
Benchmarking, networking, sharing, and learning from manufacturers in both similar and different sectors are not always natural behaviours for manufacturing professionals. For many these are learned behaviours!
FACT: Successful manufacturing businesses in the future are those that can accept that they don't know everything; that there is always something to learn from others; and that there is lots to learn from manufacturing sectors outside your own.
Take heed to these guidelines if you sincerely want to successfully improve your business! This blog series will cover the following themes to help you:
1- The Mindset
2-Conduct Prior to and During Event
3-Post Benchmarking/Networking Activity
The Mindset: My father (who is a great guy by the way at 81 yrs of
age) worked in the textile industry for 43 years following the boom
after WW2. He started from the ground up at the CIL munitions plant
in Beloeil Quebec and worked his way into the lab and into the
textile division. Through true grit his career survived several
corporate sell-offs and evolved into yarn design, quality control
and customer relations. He also became part of the "old school"
mindset in manufacturing of the times where they kept their
processes and practices to themselves for fear of their expertise
falling [...] read more »
Once you have the "Financial Impact" list for each of the root
causes; your management team, now needs to focus and understand the
"Impact" and "Risk Management" [...] read more »
With each Root Cause you now need to understand the financial
cost or impact of each of these areas of [...] read more »
How do you use OEE, MTTR and MTBF to drive continuous
improvement? These measurements help your management team find
Continuous Improvement (CI) opportunities -that match YOUR Goals,
Objectives and Directives - in: Process, Reliability,
Maintainability, Throughput, [...] read more »
This is what benchmarking for world class is about in Waterloo Region! On June 10, 2009 Rutherford Controls in Cambridge hosted over 80 people attended 4 networking and benchmarking learning events across 4 disciplines: Sr Managers, Continuous Improvement, and Health & Safety, and HR. If you are a manufacturer and would like to participate, you are most welcome!
SR [...] read more »
The majority of mangers do not fully understand the impact equipment reliability has on their bottom line. If you are trying to:
Increase Equipment Reliability
Increase First-Time-Through Quality
Increase Mean-Time-Between-Failures
Increase Production Manpower Efficiency
Increase Maintenance Manpower Efficiency
Gain Full Control Of Your Equipment
Lower Mean-Time-To Repair
Lower Maintenance Costs
Lower Inventory Costs
Lower Energy Costs
Then you need to focus on Equipment Reli [...] read more »More than 80% of successful companies today have one thing in common: they depend on cross functional teams to achieve their aggressive goals. While balanced score cards and similar tools are essential to functional integration, so too are integrated internal audits.
It is indeed a pleasure to have the opportunity to contribute to the improvement of organizations in the Waterloo Region through this Blog. Viral tools such as a Blog help us all develop our skills in these times of rapid change and increasing demands on our time.
I have had the opportunity over the past few years of contributing thoughts [...] read more »In Part 1 of this series we briefly talked about the exchange
rate [...] read more »
These days it can seems as if everything is working against the
manufacturing sector. I could go into all of the challenges
manufactures [...] read more »
Welcome to this new series of blogs. The purpose of me writing these blogs is to help local companies meet Their Goals, Objectives and Directives. This series of blogs are designed to give your organization suggestions on were to look to profitably compete and, second; how to successfully change your organization for sustainable growth. We will from time to time have blogs that deal with specific events that are unfolding. Also If you have any specific topics you would like addressed please feel free to email me and I will try to address them in my blogs.
Over my 18 years of working with [...] read more »
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