The Centre for Research in Six Sigma and Process Excellence, a centre of the Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management and University of Strathclyde, is proud to host the Third International Conference on Six Sigma.

Professor Peter Hines, Director of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre will be presenting a workshop entitled 'Staying Lean: Where are you on the journey?'

For many companies in applying Lean Thinking, or other improvement approaches such as Six Sigma, the biggest challenge is not starting a programme, but sustaining the early gains and repeating the medium to long term benefits they had hoped for. Many of the issues they face have more to do with leadership, strategy deployment or staff engagement rather than knowledge of implementation tools. This workshop builds on the key note address by Professor Peter Hines at last year's conference and is particularly designed for those from industry that want to see how they are doing on sustaining their change programmes and identifying what areas they need to address to be more sustainable.

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This strategic course is focused on how to improve your supply chain by successfully implementing Lean Thinking in your business strategy.  It covers both physical movement and information flows - inside a plant and between plants. This workshop teaches the Lean approach to managing customer-supplier relations, as well as providing insights into how leading organisations such as Toyota go about develoing Lean Logistic System, and also how you can move from push to pull and create flow.  Finally, it gives direction to your own strategies for creating and sustaining a Lean Logistics System

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This interactive workshop is based on the recent publication entitled Staying Lean (Cardiff University, 2008) by Professor Peter Hines, Dr Pauline Found, Gary Griffiths and Richard Harrison.  It is designed to focus on how Lean interventions can be designed in a sustainable way.  In addition, a multinational case study is used to illustrate how this can, and has been done, in a real world setting.

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This interactive workshop is based on the recent publication entitled Staying Lean (Cardiff University, 2008) by Professor Peter Hines, Dr Pauline Found, Gary Griffiths and Richard Harrison.  It is designed to focus on how Lean interventions can be designed in a sustainable way.  In addition, a multinational case study is used to illustrate how this can, and has been done, in a real world setting.

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