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Maximising Manufacturing Efficiency
A one-day Manufacturing IT conference that’s all about gaining competitive advantage
The National Space Centre, Leicester, 11 June 2008
Speakers and Content
Mark Blowers, enterprise architectures practice director
Butler Group
In his keynote address, distinguished IT analyst Mark Blowers will review key IT trends likely to have the most significant impact on IT departments and the businesses they support throughout manufacturing industry. Blowers notes that while the primary focus of any IT strategy must be on specific projects and programmes, and on the capabilities required for delivering cost-effective and robust services, an eye on the evolving technology and management landscape is critical to ensuring those projects are not derailed – and that businesses don’t have cause to regret serious investment.
Tony Bestall, business manager
Silvergate Plastics
Tony Bestall, business manager of MITcon 2007 award winner Silvergate Plastics, will be explaining how the company’s integrated APS (advanced planning and scheduling) implementation has transformed operations – enabling the company to produce any one of 50,000 make-to-order products, and despatch them, within a current best of 53 minutes of order receipt. Bestall puts success down to hugely improved visibility of customer and production orders – for example, revealing the impact of new orders in real time and rescheduling existing orders automatically.
“That’s with 80 to 150 works orders per day: we’ve deliberately made this very visual, with 42 inch plasma screens throughout the operation, providing just the information our people need to help them act fast and efficiently,” he says. Top line results: the company moved from an on-time, in-full service level of 79% with a five- to seven-day lead time, right up to 96—99% with no quoted lead time, while also cutting its planning team almost completely.
Sarah Cobb, Business Systems Director
Filtrona Protection and Finishing Products
Sarah Cobb, business systems director at MITcon 2004 award winner Filtrona Protection and Finishing Products, will explains the IT strategy that supported a re-evaluation of the group’s entire Moss Plastic Parts business in the face of globalisation and the threats and opportunities of Far Eastern supply.
She will explain the integrated business intelligence, CRM, ERP and supply chain platform behind that strategy, which delivered:
On-time in full performance of 99%;
Support for multi-product, short run, short lead time production with less people;
A massive reduction in customer overdues;
Schedule adherence massively improved;
Raw materials and finished goods inventories slashed; and
Scheduling time reduced from two days to less than one hour
Paul Lane, Sales Manager
Seiki Systems
Seiki Systems’ Paul Lane will describe the reality behind a manufacturing execution system that resulted in increased sales turnover, improved machine utilisation and reduced work-in-progress at specialist valves manufacturer Integrated Hydraulics, shortlisted for this year’s MITcon awards. He will explain how shopfloor operators now get updated, prioritised job lists, along with manufacturing data, NC machine programs, materials and tools required etc – with relevant information automatically propagated to all departments that need to know. And he will touch on additional value to management, which now gets automatic feedback that not only provides a complete audit trail, but informs the next similar production run, ensuring currency and best practice every time.
Martin Blackburn, Group IT Manager
Magal Engineering
Martin Blackburn, group IT manager at automotive supplier Magal Engineering – a recent winner of the MITcon manufacturing IT awards – will demonstrate how systems costing less than £50,000 each are underpinning lean manufacturing and inventory reduction initiatives at the organisation’s network of manufacturers. He will also be explaining exactly how its systems are controlling WIP (work in progress) and improving controls – with virtual supply chain kanban automation, as well as automatic lot traceability, with integrated barcoding.
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