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Informance complements our strategic efforts to migrate all business unites to common platforms.
Ron Christenson
Cargill, Corporate VP and CTO
EMI applications, such as Informance, generally begin to deliver value within days of being installed, offering an ROI that's measured in weeks and months, not years.
Allison Smith
AMR Research, Research Director
We consistently strive for best-in-class manufacturing performance. Informance enables effective continuous improvement, which is key to manufacturing flexibility, low variability, and, ultimately, outstanding customer value.
Ish Ahamed
Diageo Plainfield, VP Supply
Informance allows us to apply TPM loss elimination principles across our plants... We now have visibility of this information regardless of where you sit and can help replicate the improvement gains across multiple factories.
Tony Lippert
Unilever, Plant Manager
Schienvar calls the Informance Manufacturing Intelligence Suite used at L'Oreal a 'beautiful tool.'
Scott Schienvar
L'Oreal, Logistic Director
Informance gives us visibility into all of the facilities across our plant network to drive operational success.
Steve Belke
AkzoNobel, Supply Chain VP
The competitive climate is changing at an increasing pace. Managers are drowning in data, but starving for relevant information.
Carol Ptak
Pacific Lutheran University,
Former President APICS
By focusing on operator-identified problems, we addressed the obstacles from each operation within the value stream.
Pat Hatem
JohnsonDiversey, Plant Manager
We can show the cost of not spending capital at the push of a button.
Rich Mosgrove
Ventura, VP Manufacturing
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| Presentation Descriptions for Monday, September 20 |
What is Best-in-Class? - Insight From Manufacturing Benchmarks
Leading manufacturers use benchmarking to enhance performance improvement initiatives within plant facilities and across the manufacturing network. Internal benchmarking allows companies to "learn from within" and increase their chances of successfully implementing best practices. With external benchmarking, organizations can prioritize efforts, gain insight outside the four walls of their organization, and achieve breakthrough results. This presentation will explore Informance benchmarks, and reveal what best-in-class, average, and laggard companies can do to start, rejuvenate and sustain performance improvements. Informance will present its landmark benchmark study on most insightful metrics related to OEE, capacity, asset utilization and many others. |
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Next Gen Thinking: Closed-Loop ERP - Linking Top Floor To Shop Floor
By coupling intelligent manufacturing execution systems with ERP, a new generation of closed-loop ERP is born. Learn about this revolutionary concept that combines manufacturing execution with ERP and manufacturing intelligence for continuous feedback and loop of information. During this presentation, weÕll explore the future of closed-loop ERP and the possibilities of:
- Linking top floor business objectives to shop floor execution
- Obtaining up-to-the-second information for real-time decision support
- Integrating manufacturing systems to leverage each other (1+1=3)
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Jean-Philippe Wavelet
Assistant Vice President of Corporate Engineering |
Putting Intelligence in Operations Excellence: Driving Cultural Change
What does "Operations Excellence" mean? Informance helps manufacturing customers achieve best-in-class performance in their manufacturing facilities with actionable insight for the plant and enterprise. This presentation will demonstrate how companies can use Informance EMI solutions to be at the foundations of a cultural change that entail empowering employees and facilitating teamwork resulting in a continuous improvement of line performance. |
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OEE Roundtable
Every company wonders if they're measuring the right things, and if their approach to analysis is effective. A panel of manufacturing professionals will discuss and debate the challenges associated with monitoring OEE. During this interactive session, you will have an opportunity to explore:
- Is the pure definition of OEE the right way to measure your plant
- What to do if you have different plants measuring OEE differently
- What others have included/excluded in the OEE metric
- How to establish common OEE measurement practices across the organization
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| Presentation Descriptions for Tuesday, September 21 |
John Oskin
Founder & Executive Vice-President |
Understanding the Cost of Downtime: Manufacturing Intelligence with a Financial Context
The best manufacturing performance opportunities are those with the greatest cost savings or largest anticipated production increases, combined with the greatest probability of success. The cost attributed to downtime is a common denominator for management and production teams. Establishing appropriate priorities, solving problems, and planning activities for manufacturing improvement and effective kaizen is possible using a careful analysis that includes cost factors and the probability of success. During this presentation, you will learn how to connect economic metrics to the plant floor, and how to show the cost of downtime in clear and simple terms so that each team member can understand his financial impact. |
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John Oskin
Founder & Executive Vice-President |
Silent Sabotage: Planning Rates That Cripple Manufacturing Performance
Inaccurate standard rates and old planning rates in the ERP system may be to blame for idle lines and backlogs. Performance gains are at risk when standard and planning rates are out of date or not accurately set. Yet, as many as 30% of planning rates may be incorrect. When production runs finish sooner or later than expected, idle lines or backlogs create issues across inventory, customer service, labor costs and many others. These problems can be telltale symptoms of neglect toward standard rates and planning rates, or faulty analysis. Accurate and timely analysis of downtime and cycle time can result in appropriately set standard and planning rates. The result is a validation of each existing rate, or an adjustment, higher or lower. Learn how to use detailed analysis to set accurate standard and planning rates that can be reviewed quarterly or semi-annually. |
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Stan Pamel
Operations Technology Manager |
Driving Continuous Improvement Across the Manufacturing Enterprise
Everyone understands the importance of continuous improvement within the plant. How do you leverage continuous improvement efforts across multiple facilities to drive even more savings? Unlocking "Enterprise Continuous Improvement" can yield significantly greater savings than individual plant improvement efforts. This presentation will explore the organizational structure to enable "Enterprise CI," and the manufacturing intelligence needed for driving exponential savings in your Lean, SixSigma or continuous improvement initiative. |
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Product Advisory Committee
Collaborate with Informance to help drive product development. During this interactive session you will have an opportunity to share your ideas and needs, as well as learn about future software releases. |
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