Operational Excellence in Process Manufacturing 2010

Reassessing Production Processes to Reduce Costs, Waste and Energy

Companies in the process industries are facing decelerating customer demand, cost containment, limited access to free cash flow and increasing environmental regulatory costs. To sustain the competition, they need to focus on strategies to improve productivity and have better returns on investment. Therefore, companies need to enhance their ability to adapt rapidly to market changes, to reduce costs significantly and to continue with restructuring programme implementation, reorganising businesses structures and streamlining operations across organisations to increase efficiency and profit margins.

This top level marcus evans conference will offer a unique focus on strategies to implement culture of operational excellence that continuously sees and eliminates waste resulting in more effective cost saving manufacturing. Significant attention will be given to achieving revolutionary development and transformation of the operational processes, on the ways to make them leaner, flexible, more transparent and effective. Operational and continuous improvement experts will share their unique experiences on how they achieved reduction of waste, costs and energy while improving the quality levels of products and processes.

key conference topics

• Enhance culture of operational excellence to increase profitability and plant efficiency
• Achieve buy-in of all the layers of an organisation to enhance the improvement initiatives
• Deploy accurate tools and methodologies to increase bottom line results
• Optimise manufacturing and operational processes to shorten the lead time
• Increase bottom line results, profitability and plant efficiency