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Superior Boiler Works & Welding
Superior Boiler Works & Welding is a Tier 1
& 2 designer/manufacturer/fabricator of
Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers,
Deaerators, Filtration & Mobile products
serving the global market. Our flexible
environment ensures quick turnaround times
for project deliverables while maintaining
the excellent quality we have become known
for in our 45 plus years of business. With
our new Western Canada and Southern USA
offices, we continue to expand our presence
outside our original Golden Horseshoe
geographic area.
AGENDA
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Flexible manufacturing - designing and
building to customers requirements in a
timely manner
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Quality Assurance
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Project Management
 
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Messier-Dowty
Inc.
Messier-Dowty
Inc. is the world leader in the design,
development, manufacture and support of
integrated aircraft landing gear systems.
The Toronto operation is housed in a 19,000
m2 facility. Messier-Dowty maintains an
extensive computer-aided design and
manufacturing engineering capability with
more than a decade of expertise in the
development of fully integrated landing gear
systems. Also on site is a comprehensive
maintenance, repair and overhaul station. 5S
is the foundation throughout the facility
for continuous improvement, evident in all
areas including administration.
AGENDA
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A Lean Cell for producing Landing Gear
Shock Absorber parts using Kanban
signals in place of MRP
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Use of FIFO in areas that are ‘shared
resources’
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5S Enterprise wide
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High precision machining of critical
parts
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Assembly methodology using visual
management for signaling actions
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A world class 5S Auditing system that
uses the intranet as a foundation
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Sutherland - Schultz Inc.
Sutherland-Schultz is a leader in the
manufacturing, industrial and automotive
service industries focused on providing
customers with innovative, customized
technical service solutions. Our team of
Asset Management & Maintenance Management
experts are currently providing world class
services to companies such as General Motors
and Redpath Sugar, etc. Sutherland-Schultz’s
800 employees all share the same goal -
working with our customers to find the best
solutions and allowing them to focus on
their core business. On top of that, our
70,000 sq. ft. custom fabrication facility
has been recognized as a case study in 5S
implementation and utilization.
AGENDA
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Global best practices in Asset
Management and Industrial Maintenance
Management
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Preventive maintenance management
systems and procedures, reliability
maintenance best practices
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Custom manufacturing of sheet metal,
piping and ironwork products across all
industry sectors
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Eaton Canada, Electrical Group
The
Low Voltage Distribution Assembly plant for
Eaton Canada is located in Milton. The plant
was purchased in 2000, operates in a
non-union environment of 111,000 sq. ft. and
is owned by Eaton, Canadian Operations.
Milton is the main Canadian location for the
Panelboard and Switchboard product line,
which are their core business products. In
2007, Eaton was selected as Eaton
Corporation’s “Winner” of their 2007
Business Excellence Award.
AGENDA
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One piece flow in fabrication and an
outstanding example of visual factory
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Custom engineering, fabrication,
assembly and warehouse
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Process that fabricates the steel, welds
the components and paints them
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Finished steel goods assembled into
cabinets that house the electrical
components
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Umbra Ltd.
Umbra is the
worldwide leader in casual, contemporary,
affordable design for the home. The
company’s products are available at over
25,000 retailers in more than 75 countries.
Umbra designs and manufactures products for
every room, including picture frames,
garbage cans, window treatments,
kitchenware, tabletop accessories, bathroom
accessories, decorative hardware and
furniture. Umbra began in 1979, when boyhood
friends Paul Rowan and Les Mandelbaum joined
forces to create exciting, everyday products
that alter the overall aesthetic of a home,
beginning with a printed window shade unlike
anything then in the market (“umbra” means
shade in Latin). Twenty-nine years later,
Umbra’s award-winning design team – 30 men
and women from all over the world and
notable outside product designers, all under
Paul Rowan’s direction – remains the heart
and soul of the company. Its offices
worldwide now house more than 250 people.
AGENDA
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Umbra’s journey
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importance of Product Design and
Development; a Canadian manufacturing
perspective
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Umbra’s green campaign – biodegradable
plastics: i.e. includes “corn” plastic,
bamboo, and renewable plantation wood
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manufacturing with polymers – i.e.: corn
plastics
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meet innovative Canadian designers
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Edson
Packaging Machinery
For
over 40 years, Edson Packaging Machinery has
been designing and manufacturing premium
packaging machinery systems for small and
Fortune 500 companies around the globe.
Edson’s products include integrated
ancillary equipment, such as conveyors,
accumulators, RFID scanners, lane diverters,
adaptive motion controls and easy to program
interfaces. We also provide full service and
aftermarket global support. Major customers
in the Food, Tissue, Pharmaceutical and
Consumer Product industries include Kimberly
Clark, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Kruger,
Irving and Technicolor. Edson’s strength
lies in its people who continually innovate
the packaging automation we design and
build, and our processes as we must rapidly
adapt to changing market conditions and
consumer requirements.
AGENDA
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Edson has embraced Lean Enterprise
Principles to provide people, processes
and operations that deliver the highest
value to our customer
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Collaborating with our customer, Edson
has developed a packaging automation
sought by all major Tissue Converters in
North America
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Liburdi (Canada)
Liburdi is the
manufacturer of high precision, vision based
LAWS™ , Dabber® and Pulsweld® power sources,
multi-axis articulated motion systems and
controllers for applications in turbine,
aerospace, nuclear, industrial and
automotive industries. We also provide a
complete range of component refurbishment
and advanced life extending processes for
the latest class of high performance aero
and industrial turbines including – alloy
rejuvenation, LPM™ Powder Metallurgy,
automated welding processes and unique
coatings for erosion, oxidation and
corrosion resistance.
AGENDA
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The latest in metallurgical equipment
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A high tech machine shop with advanced
automation, technology, robotics and
manufacturing
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An interdisciplinary approach employed
throughout the organization
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A metallographic laboratory for testing
and non-destructive chemical analysis
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