Build Velocity, Not Inventory
This presentation will present the basics of QRM and provide examples of companies that have successfully adopted it to achieve better customer service while improving financial performance and growing market share. Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is a strategy that helps companies design their business to build products and provide services much faster so they can serve their customers more effectively without tying up as much cash and resources.
Bill Ritchie - Tempus Institute
Using Life Cycle Assessment to Answer Burning Questions
In this interactive session, learn what a Life Cycle Assessment is and what questions it can help companies answer. Hear case studies about how Hypertherm is using LCA to identify the hot spots in their product, reduce environmental impacts throughout its supply chain, guide their communications around sustainability, and incorporate tools to enable product developers and others, not just LCA experts, to understand the environmental impacts of future design changes.
Shelly Severinghaus - EARTHSHIFT
Make It Better, Keep It Better; The Short & Long Term Benefits of Automatically Collecting OEE Data
This presentation describes the fundamentals of a rock-solid automatic data collection system, and explains how to overcome the two most common roadblocks. In addition; this session will introduce the single most important concept for identifying the actionable items that will lead to real change. The only way to collect data real-time is to do it automatically.
Keith R. Magnant - ShopFloorConnect
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