Conference Information
Your customers are demanding faster deliverability and more flexibility. How do you streamline all aspects of your organization, keep costs under control, and still manage to deliver on customer service? By adopting advanced principles of lean manufacturing, you can continue today to identify which processes add the most value -- and which processes can be eliminated to reduce waste. View this on-demand event to hear how you can build upon your lean improvements.
Jeff Glaze, president of Decorated Products, provides a real world example of how lean has evolved at his company's mixed-mode manufacturing plant. Decorated Products had success in its past lean initiatives, but the company needed to take its lean program to the next level. The company realized the importance of lean being an ongoing process and not a static one.
Some of the advanced lean techniques you learn about from Decorated Products include:
You also hear from Rod Winger and Brandon Gibbs, two experts who have spent time working with a wide range of manufacturing companies.
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Winger presents several advanced lean manufacturing techniques, and he shows you how ERP systems help enable lean improvements across the organization.
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Gibbs discusses how technology can help enable progressive lean manufacturing. By taking advantage of new technology such as service-oriented architectures and business event processing, companies can more easily integrate new and existing business applications, gain greater control and visibility over their real-time processes, and find new ways of reducing costs and improving efficiency.
Learn now how to start driving even more value and eliminating waste with these advanced lean manufacturing principles. View this on-demand event now.
Speakers
Adrienne Selko
eMedia Editor
IndustryWeek
Adrienne Selko manages the editorial content of IndustryWeek's award-winning Web site. Before joining the staff in 2004, Selko was managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional financial institution. She was also an editor for the U.S. based publication of a medical manufacturing company. Prior to that she ran a public relations and marketing company that published a best-selling healthcare book. Selko received a bachelor's of business administration from the University of Michigan.
Jeff Glaze
President
Decorated Products
Jeff Glaze is the president and owner of Decorated Products, a manufacturer of high quality nameplates, dials, decals, labels and signs. He joined Decorated Products in 1979 and has held various positions throughout the organization prior to his appointment as President in 1992. He is the current president of the Northeast Epicor Vantage User Group comprising over 100 U.S. companies using Epicor manufacturing software. Glaze is a member of the Springfield Area Council for Excellence (SPACE), the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) and GPI. Glaze has a degree in management from Lehigh University and resides with his family in Southampton, Massachusetts.
Rod Winger
Senior Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Solutions
Epicor Software
Rodney Winger joined Epicor Software Corporation in 2003, bringing 20 plus years of marketing, consulting, sales and application development experience in the wholesale distribution industry to the company. In his current position he is Director of Product Marketing for Epicor Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management (SCM) solutions. Prior to joining Epicor, Winger was the founder and CEO of TDC Solutions Inc., a long-time, successful partner of Epicor focused on the wholesale distribution industry, and T7 Group, LCC, the company's consulting and reseller division. Before founding TDC Solutions, Rodney held various executive sales and IT management positions with Intermec Technologies, Alcatel - Metallurgy Division, and Canada Wire & Cable. He co-founded Winger's Cabinet Manufacturing in Ontario, Canada, during the mid-1980s, serving as operations manager until 1988. Winger began his career with Canadian-based steel producer Dofasco, Inc. Winger is a graduate of McMaster University with his certification in business management. He also retains his Canadian Trades Certification as an Industrial Journeyman.
Brandon Gibbs
Technology Manager
Progress Software
Brandon Gibbs has been with Progress Software for over 8 years with the single goal of educating prospects on Progress' various tools, technologies & solutions and how best to implement them to achieve significant business benefit. Gibbs' experience in managing some of Progress' largest direct customers and major application partners has given him unique insight into the real needs of various industries. Before joining Progress, Gibbs spent over twelve years focused on developing mission critical business applications for a number of key companies including BellSouth, Coca-Cola, US DOE, SWIFT, Wachovia, Hanes and Newsweek. Gibbs graduated from West Georgia College in 1990 with a dual bachelor's of science degree in mathematics and computer science.