| Day One8th October
2008 |
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| 08:00 |
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Registration and refreshments |
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| 08:50 |
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Chairperson’s welcome and opening remarks |
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| 09:00 |
Special keynote address
Moving manufacturing forward through the credit crunch
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- Alleviating the uncertainty amongst European manufacturers
- Remaining competitive in the current climate
- Economic signs – maintaining a strong global economy in 2009
Jürgen Krüger,
Director, Economies of the Member States, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs,
European Commission
Belgium
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| 09:40 |
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Where is European manufacturing going? Looking beyond 2008 |
- Moving away from Low Cost Countries and towards emerging markets
- Green manufacturing: green initiatives as strategic business initiatives
- Cost-cutting vs. innovation
Pierfrancesco Manenti,
Research Director, EMEA,
Manufacturing Insights
EMEA
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| 10:20 |
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Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings |
Accelerate the networking process by taking bespoke one-to-one meetings with fellow delegates and leading solution providers
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| 12:05 |
Conference room 1 Sourcing and procurement |
| Is this the end of category management? What comes next? |
- What is the next step and how do we leverage spend? Through globalisation?
- Developing new techniques to input into manufacturing and deliver bottom-line benefits
- Leaning up the inbound and outbound supply chain process to address business needs
Christopher Game,
Head of TechOps Sourcing,
Novartis
Switzerland
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Conference room 2 Innovation and IT |
| Bringing manufacturing processes and IT infrastructure together |
- Maximising efficiency through enhanced integration and collaboration
- Mitigating against operational risks through greater visibility
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Conference room 3 Human capital |
| Making manufacturing glamorous: Addressing the skills gap |
- Improving the image and changing perceptions to attract talent to the workforce
- The importance of employer training: establishing a framework for continuous professional development
- The professional development stairway: a model for workforce development
Greg Cejer,
Director of UK Partnerships,
Skills for Logistics
UK
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| 12:40 |
| The future of procurement: driving the manufacturing enterprise
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- An all-time high for the profession in the midst of the credit crunch
- Driving the business forward through skilful sourcing
Haidé Villuendas,
Baby Booster Project Director,
Numico
The Netherlands
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| Driving harmonisation and innovation across the global extended enterprise |
- PHENIX - PLM Harmonisation for ENhanced Integration and eXcellence
- Taking a global approach and creating a common IT infrastructure group-wide
- Harmonisation through cost reduction, agility and operating as a worldwide extended enterprise
Dr Amaury Soubeyran,
Deputy Head, PHENIX Programme,
EADS
France
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| Special panel discussion: How do we close the skills vacuum?
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- What can manufacturers do to attract and retain new talent?
- How can we develop talent into the next leaders of the future?
Greg Cejer,
Director of UK Partnerships,
Skills for Logistics
UK
Yvonne Salazar,
Project Director,
Festo
Germany
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| 13:15 |
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| 14:15 |
Conference room 1 Interactive workshop |
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Ensuring improvement translates to sustainable bottom line results |
- Delivering an increased rate of improvement
- Understanding the true opportunity
- Developing the improvement plan
- Implementing the improvement plan
- Translating improvement into sustained results
Steve Roger,
Managing Director,
Lauras International
United Kingdom
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Conference room 2 Interactive workshop |
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Changing hearts and minds in the workforce: delivering ROI through human capital investment |
- Maximise workforce performance to succeed in operational excellence
- Optimise skills levels and manage change across the workforce to implement strategic targets
- Taking a multi-layered approach to human capital: management, change agents and workforce
- Examples from multinational businesses
Carlo Baroncelli,
Vice President,
Solving Efeso
France
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Conference room 3 Interactive workshop |
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Consumer Driven Operational Excellence: What do we mean by "Consumer Driven Operational Excellence"?
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- How integrated MES automation and information solutions can help ensure companies become more flexible and agile....
- ....whilst ensuring consistency and the quality of the product is maintained, asset performance is improved together with tighter integration of the supply chain
- Suppliers must not only be intimate with manufacturers they supply but also with the industry and consumers that they serve
- Suppliers must become technology partners to enable consumer driven operational excellence
Mike Jamieson,
Global Director, Consumer Packaged Goods Industry ,
Rockwell Automation
United Kingdom
Tim C Dudley,
Principal Consultant,
Rockwell Automation
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Conference room 4 Interactive workshop |
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Gaining a lean enterprise
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- Building a customised toolset for lean
- Keeping the new system running
- The future: adapting lean thinking to the development processes
Naheed Hanif,
Sales and Marketing Manager,
CIMPA Ltd
United Kingdom
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| 15:15 |
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Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings
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Accelerate the networking process by taking bespoke one-to-one meetings with fellow delegates and leading solution providers
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| 16:30 |
Closing panel discussion
The future of manufacturing in Europe
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- Unpredictable times ahead?
- Mapping out priorities for the next ten years
Engelbert Wimmer,
Head of Global Manufacturing Industries and Member of the Management Committee,
PA Consulting Group
UK
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| 17:05 |
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Chairperson’s closing remarks and close of Day One |
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| 18:30 |
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Ceremonial drinks reception, followed by Strategic Manufacturing Awards
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