Has your manufacturing business experienced margin erosion?  Are you getting the most out of your people, processes, and equipment?  How do you compare to others in your industry?  Are your front line leaders developing people and improving processes or are they too busy fighting fires daily?  Is an inability to increase process capacity causing you to turn down new business?

In today’s economy, the impact of extreme change and the tyranny of the urgent has taken many executives’ eye off the ball.  Executives and managers in manufacturing can benefit from understanding the foundations of Toyota’s improvement direction setting and direction controlling process, called Hoshin Kanri.  Learn the principles and apply the thinking needed to effectively implement strategic improvement in your environment in order to position your company for even greater long-term success.

Join us for a special breakfast briefing:

Strategic Improvements – Getting the Most Out of What You Have

About our speaker:

Aaron Styles is a production system development specialist with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Lean Manufacturing Certification from the University of Kentucky. Aaron has 22 years experience in classical industrial engineering, Lean manufacturing deployment, production system design, simultaneous engineering, manufacturing operations, and supply chain development in the electronics, packaging, construction, consumer goods, and automotive manufacturing industries. He has assisted companies of various sizes ($5mio/year to $40bio/year in sales) on 3 continents, from job shop to mass manufacturing environments. Aaron has a proven track record of applying Lean manufacturing principles and methodologies to a wide range of business problems in order to achieve bottom-line results with high return on investment.

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