Miriam Staunton is Systems Engineer at the Historic Guinness Brewery, St James’s Gate Dublin. An engineer with 10+ years experience in Brewing and Packaging and Continuous Improvement Techniques. More recently Miriam has been instrumental in delivering an upgraded EMI solution in St James Gate which leverages control system integration through MES and into ERP layer. This system allows real time performance metrics and is tailored to present the right information to the right people to support decision making.

The Cordis plant in Mexico won the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence in 2007. Shannon will describe the successful implementation of Operational Excellence methodologies on their lean journey

The Michelin Manufacturing Way (MMW) production management system is designed to accelerate progress to achieve Operational Excellence in all aspects of the manufacturing process, eg. Safety, Machines, Quality, Delivery and Costs, whilst ensuring the long-term perenity of the actions engaged. A key success factor of MMW is it places the production employee at the heart of all operations. The Managing Daily Performance (MDP) tool, within the MMW system, comprises of 3 practical visual management tools and 3 management practices/acts. The rigorous use of these tools, combined with a structured approach to develop the teamwork and empowerment of the workforce, has resulted in extremely effective progress over the last 5 years. The practical engagement of the entire Plant senior management team to coach the junior management teams on how to obtain the best results from the MDP tool, has been an essential step for its successful deployment. This leadership and senior management support has evolved with the implementation of structured daily meetings, where senior managers help to solve problems raised from the Shop Floor and help define the priorities of the day with the teams. The MDP tool has been implemented worldwide in all our Plants, using proven Best Practices and by setting up ”Teaching Schools” to practically train all levels of the Plant management teams.

Pierfrancesco Manenti leads IDC Manufacturing Insights research practice in EMEA and is the global lead for the Operations Technology Strategies advisory service. In this role he provides insights, consulting and advisory support to leading manufacturers and specialty IT vendors into the key challenges and trends affecting manufacturing industries, including Automotive, Machinery, Wearing Apparel/Fashion, CPG, and High-Tech – with a particular attention to in EMEA. Among the process domain areas, Mr. Manenti specializes in Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chains, and Product Life-Cycle strategies. Pierfrancesco regularly contributes to the Operations Technology blog on IDC Manufacturing Insights Community and tweets (@PierManenti) about business and IT issues relevant to Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Product Lifecycle, IT strategies. A senior executive with about 20 years industry experience in manufacturing operations and supply chain strategy consulting and IT solutions as well as, product management, marketing, and business development, Mr. Manenti is a thought leader with strong focus on the business value of technology in manufacturing. Prior to joining IDC, Manenti spent many years with TXT e-solutions, a Europe-based SCM software vendor, where he held increasing roles and responsibilities, including industry business unit manager for automotive, business development manager for manufacturing industries, and U.K. operations director. Manenti has a degree in computer science from Pisa University (Italy).

Driving the 3C concept of Competition, Collaboration and Cooperation, DSM Anti-Infectives India has truly proven to be a “Sustainable Evangelist through Green Route”. DSM Anti-Infectives India has its manufacturing unit located in Toansa, in Punjab state of India. As a mark of sustainable organization, this site has its own Water Management Facility, Utilities and Power Station, thus making it self sustaining. The manufacturing at Toansa demonstrated the Holistic Development Approach in realizing the green initiatives and transitioned to be a leader in enzymatic technologies. The formal accolades received are not the only ones we are proud of, but the valuable partnerships we made along the path to sustainability are the treasures, we aspire to cash as Green Company. The evolution of DSM India to be a trendsetter has heightened benchmarks for others to follow.

As a global company, Philip Morris International (PMI) sought to use corporate best-practices to achieve high quality and productivity standards. Attend this presentation to learn how PMI has leveraged a plant-based IT system to globally improve operational efficiency and maintain product integrity while continuing to produce an increasingly varied product portfolio. Hear Philipp Steiger, Director Process Integration, explain why PMI has decided to create a global solution to support manufacturing and factory logistics processes and how it integrates into PMI’s corporate operations processes and systems landscape. Siegfried Diesch, Director IS Operations Technical Services, will discuss why PMI chose Apriso’s FlexNet as a standardized technology platform for manufacturing and logistics. The ease of use turns it into the key tool for operators, strongly supporting lean manufacturing principles.

As a global company, Philip Morris International (PMI) sought to use corporate best-practices to achieve high quality and productivity standards. Attend this presentation to learn how PMI has leveraged a plant-based IT system to globally improve operational efficiency and maintain product integrity while continuing to produce an increasingly varied product portfolio. Hear Philipp Steiger, Director Process Integration, explain why PMI has decided to create a global solution to support manufacturing and factory logistics processes and how it integrates into PMI’s corporate operations processes and systems landscape. Siegfried Diesch, Director IS Operations Technical Services, will discuss why PMI chose Apriso’s FlexNet as a standardized technology platform for manufacturing and logistics. The ease of use turns it into the key tool for operators, strongly supporting lean manufacturing principles.

Thomas will be discussing how to achieve superior results through the implementation of a production system/lean culture across different manufacturing processes and sites in different regions.

Billy is the Group Lean Controller at United Biscuits. Prior to joining UB, Billy worked for Kraft Foods in a number of roles including Business Development, Quality and Continuous Improvement. Before this he spent many years in various leadership and change management positions in the Brewing Industry. Billy is a Certified Lean Sigma Master Black Belt and has a BA in Business Studies, an MBA and MA in HR Strategy along with being a Certified Performance Coach.

Lean thinking is no longer enough to achieve global competitiveness. A new business process is emerging focused on developing the right configuration of manufacturing plants around the globe – where to locate them, what their roles should be and how they should interact with each other. Manufacturing footprint strategy is an exciting new spanner in the company toolbox that has the potential to have greater impact than lean. However, it raises new challenges that are not easily resolved by economics or engineering logic alone. Managers must develop fresh analytical approaches for this uncharted territory, with little idea of what best practice might be.

After completing his studies and doctorate in information technology at the Technical University of Dresden, Karl-Heinz Büttner started his professional carrier at Carl Zeiss Jena in 1982. At the beginning he worked as a hardware and firmware development engineer and later assumed responsibility as R&D Manager for electronic design. In 1990 he joined Siemens. Starting in the drives business in Erlangen, Mr Büttner took over several management positions in R&D, quality, and production until he became Operations Manager for electronics production in Fürth in 1995. After having been in Fürth for about five years, he was assigned the position of the Operations Manager for PC based systems in Karlsruhe. End of 2001 he started working in the team Manufacturing Strategy USA in Alpharetta / USA. After successful completion, he assumed the leadership of two factories in the USA. In 2004 he became General Manager of Siemens Electrical Drives Ltd., Tianjin, China. Since Nov 2008 he has been heading the Electronics Works Amberg.

The traditional distinction between manufacturing and services, both in relation to products and indeed, the actual companies themselves, is getting blurred. Increasingly services are becoming a major part of the company offerings in manufacturing sector. The servitisation of manufacturing is becoming popular in more popular in more industrialized nations, for example availability contracts, power by the hour type contracts. The service contracts underpin a longer term and closer relationship between a firm and its customer. Delivering a service contract for complex engineering systems requires re-defining the value proposition; dealing with additional uncertainties and therefore costs; exploring opportunities for additional revenue generation and developing a sustainable risk-sharing environment within the supply chain. The presentation will focus on the opportunities and challenges in the servitisation. The speaker will draw on his experience in defence, aerospace and transport sectors and outline the future trends in the servitisation.

Use of Planogram Generator to create optimized consumer centric planograms and become retailer partner of choice Dr Pepper Snapple Groups will show the success they have had in the US as one of the leaders in store level planogram development. Combined with their award winning space process, methodology and technology, DPSG is winning retailer partnerships over their competitors

Michel de Lepper is Director of Corporate Manufacturing at DSM. In this role, he is currently working on an advanced manufacturing programme, using tools such as Six Sigma and Lean to identify and increase value in manufacturing. He joined DSM as Manufacturing Director in 2002 after spending 17 years at Heineken.

Sal Puaar is Head of Germany at Celerant. In a former role as COO of Skandia Germany he successfully led various Business Performance initiatives. In Sal´s more than 20 years in consultancy, he has undertaken a wide range of worldwide assignments in supply management and implementation of Six Sigma in manufacturing and administrative environments.

Giorgio Levati is the Managing Director of Solving Efeso Iberia and Member of the Group Executive Committee. He specialises in engineering and operational excellence program implementation. He has over 25 years’ consulting experience and he has managed more than 300 operations performance improvement projects using World Class Operations Management systems and techniques.

Carlo was one of the promoter partners of Efeso and has more than 25 yrs experience in Operations Strategy and World Class Operation Management, leading programs for multinational companies, from Product Development to Supply Chain domain. His experience encompasses many industrial sectors, from Automotive to Pharma, Packaging, Mechanical, Paper, Steel, and Public Administration. The most relevant experiences fall into the field of Manufacturing. He has been responsible for Manufacturing and Logistics' Area at the School of Management of the Università di Genova, he has teached at ISTUD and MIP (Master of the Politecnico di Milano) and for 'Università' di Bergamo.

Johan is an expert in Lean enterprise /WCOM™, Supply Chain and Change Management. He has got his Lean training from personal Senseis coming from Toyota. During his career he has held many managing positions in multinational companies both in Sweden as well as UK. His passion in Lean Enterprise and Change Management is well known and he is often used as speaker in seminars and universities. Johan has helped a lot of companies and organisations to dramatically improve their business performance. Examples of clients are Tetra Pak, Volvo Construction Equipment, Seco Tools, Outokumpu, Stockholm Water company, Danone, Plannja and more. Johan has been working with Solving Efeso since 2005 and he is a member of the board for Solving Efeso Nordic region.

Leonardo has a Master degree in Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan. Before joining Solving Efeso in 2000, he started his career working for 5 years in the Saint-Gobain group covering roles in Manufacturing and Process Development. Leonardo is an expert in World Class Operations Management and in Change Management implementation processes. During these years with Solving Efeso he has led several international projects to help multinational companies in their continuous quest to World Class Excellence, working worldwide in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has developed his expertise mainly in the Food & Beverages, Packaging, Pharmaceutical and Automotive sectors with customers such as Heineken, Danone, Tetra Pak, Gambro, Valeo and more.

Effective from May, 2010 Giuseppe Sugliano has been acting as Director of the MES Practice in Invensys Operation Management EURA. Prior to this Giuseppe held significant management positions as Director of Operation and Business Unit Manager in important Italian companies of system integration, focused on the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) application area for the European markets, Managing Director in Wonderware Italia and lately Pre-Sales Operations Management in one of the major MES worldwide player

Robert has more than 35 years experience in the brewing industry. As General Manager at Molson Coors’ Alton Brewery, Robert was involved in all aspects of the business including brewing, packaging, quality assurance and logistics. Robert also led a global Organisational Design team within MCBC focusing on structural, behavioural and cultural change. He has several years experience implementing TRACC – CCI’s flagship Integrated Improvement Management System – to great success at Molson Coors.

Ton Aerdts spent several years working in Tanzania as general manager of a manufacturing company and he has been helping companies with their Continuous Improvement journey ever since. Mr. Aerdts has expertise across a wide range of industries, supporting major improvement programmes, and the resulting culture change, for leading multinationals. Ton has been working with CCI since August 2009 and is involved in the deployment of TRACC – CCI’s flagship Integrated Improvement Management System – across Europe.

Christof has made Operations Management and the Toyota Way the basis of his professional life. After gaining an MSC in Mechatronic Engineering and an MBA from Solvay Business school, he began working for Case New Holland and later joined Solideal International as production and plant manager. In 2003, he moved into management consulting with McKinsey and Company and now leads his own Lean and TPM consultancy. Christof is a Business Partner of CCI - developers of TRACC, the leading Integrated Improvement Management System.

Learn how Rockwell Automation can help organizations to achieve process automation excellence. Our scalable, open, and cost-effective process solution (PlantPAx) offers state-of-the-art automation capabilities and technologies including those of our market leading partners. Rockwell Automation has been working in process industries for many years, and PlantPAx demonstrates that our process offering has evolved into a complete process automation system, from control & information, to asset management, field device integration and critical process control and safety. PlantPAx is composed of both automation and information segments defined as the ‘Logix Control Platform’ on automation and as ‘FactoryTalk Integrated Production and Performance Suite’ on the MES information level Rockwell Automation can deliver the next generation of plant-wide control and information systems to meet the needs of the entire manufacturing enterprise with a single platform. Rockwell Automation delivers a scalable system for all plant automation applications, including discrete, process, batch, motion, drives and safety, as well as seamless information flow between the plant floor and the rest of the manufacturing enterprise. During this 1-hour workshop you will learn, how Rockwell Automation can help to optimise your investments in both Plant Upgrades and Greenfield sites for your next generation Plant.

Learn how Rockwell Automation can help organizations to achieve process automation excellence. Our scalable, open, and cost-effective process solution (PlantPAx) offers state-of-the-art automation capabilities and technologies including those of our market leading partners. Rockwell Automation has been working in process industries for many years, and PlantPAx demonstrates that our process offering has evolved into a complete process automation system, from control & information, to asset management, field device integration and critical process control and safety. PlantPAx is composed of both automation and information segments defined as the ‘Logix Control Platform’ on automation and as ‘FactoryTalk Integrated Production and Performance Suite’ on the MES information level Rockwell Automation can deliver the next generation of plant-wide control and information systems to meet the needs of the entire manufacturing enterprise with a single platform. Rockwell Automation delivers a scalable system for all plant automation applications, including discrete, process, batch, motion, drives and safety, as well as seamless information flow between the plant floor and the rest of the manufacturing enterprise. During this 1-hour workshop you will learn, how Rockwell Automation can help to optimise your investments in both Plant Upgrades and Greenfield sites for your next generation Plant.