Detailed Agenda
8:30
am
Registration and Breakfast
9:00
am
Welcome
9:15
am
Portfolio Planning Workshop
Session participants will work through
the process of selecting and prioritizing
projects and then consider the impact/effects
of such decisions. With common insight,
we will examine how modern technologies
address the elements of risk, dependency
and constraints. The workshop takes the
general perspective of portfolio/project
planning analysis as it applies to R&D,
IT, defense programs and construction.
Exercises present concepts for discussion,
while a demonstration deepens the understanding
of this complex decision environment.
11:15 pm
Client Presentation: Recovering late programs
with predictive resource assignments
Leonard Yip, Director of IT, at Hot Topic,
leads all aspects of IT execution and
implementation. He discusses his roll
out project for computer systems to 800
stores across the US and how predictive
project portfolio analysis enabled him
to enact changes that accelerated the
completion of high-level deliverables.
He also describes the differences between
the rolls of predictive analysis and project
management systems in wide use today and
how the two are used together to improve
project delivery.
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Client Presentation: The new 80/20 of
process improvement
Todd Scheele, principal at Scheele Systems,
shows how much easier it has become to
get 80% of the improvement from the first
20% of effort. Using proven methodologies
he examines high labor content operations.
He presents several end-to-end projects
and how his novel time study method captured
and provided data for quick simulation
analyses of diverse systems. Todd supports
a variety of clients and processes: electronics
fabrication, plastics processing, biotech
production, and traditional electro-mechanical
assembly. The audience will see the flexibility
of his approach and the power of his results
through multiple project reviews.
1:45 pm
Client Presentation: Experiencing your
production systems prior to commissioning
John Martino, a Master Black Belt at LifeScan,
a division of Johnson and Johnson, will
take the audience through the evolution
of simulation-based decision making for
the factory floor. He shares insights
gained from improvements at existing sites
and from green field designs. John discusses
openly what has worked well and what has
not, and how the ability to visualize
and analyze the plant as a whole system
leads to the integration of simulation
into the process of new plant design.
2:45 pm
Virtual Kaizen Workshop
Kaizen events started out as static analyses
and remained so until recently. Simulation
modeling has become easier, putting it
well within reach of Lean and Six-Sigma
practitioners. This has changed the scale
and potential value of modeling in the
enterprise. Practitioners bring their
as-is and to-be processes to life to gain
deeper understanding of throughput, cycle-time,
work-in-process and resource utilization.
Lean and Six Sigma professionals will
gain the most from this workshop, while
the introduction will provide an adequate
basis for all participants to see the
power of synthesizing LEAN, Six Sigma,
and this dynamic analysis for thorough
process improvement.
4:30 pm
Panel Discussion
The history, challenges and promises of
Model-Based Enterprise analysis
The day's speakers joined by a ProModel
executive will field questions about what
has been difficult in the past, and prevented
organizations from harnessing the potential
of modeling and simulation. They will
discuss how to overcome barriers to implementation
at all levels. The panel members work
closely with management and client management
on how to overcome limitations of traditional
analysis methods in order to make better
decisions. Because of their experiences,
they will be able to answer questions
on getting started, sustaining, and extending
the value of modeling and Lean, Six Sigma.
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