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British Columbia

June 24, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Kodak (Graphic Communications Canada) Delta
September 9, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Arpac Storage Systems Corporation Delta
September 30, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
EBCO Industries Ltd. Richmond

Manitoba

September 17, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Westfield Industries  new Rosenort
September 30, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Arne's Welding Ltd.  Winnipeg

Alberta

June 11, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
GENCO Supply Chain Logistics  new Calgary
September 25, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Weldco-Beales Manufacturing  new Edmonton
September 30, 2008
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Net Safety Monitoring Inc.  new Calgary

Saskatchewan

4 September
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Brandt Engineered Products Ltd.  new Regina

GENCO Supply Chain Logistics
GENCO is a leading third party logistics provider and recognized in Supply Chain Management and execution excellence.  Providing a complete range of value added supply chain solutions.  Under contract to Canadian Tire Corporation, GENCO has operated the Western Canada distribution centre in Calgary providing support to Canadian Tire's Supply Chain.  Located adjacent to CP Rail's intermodal terminal in Calgary, the facility provides a unique approach to multi product-line distribution.  GENCO, founded in 1898, is a privately held, third-party logistics solutions provider, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Ten value-added solutions business units, including:  reverse logistics, contract warehousing, pharmaceutical returns, damage research, transportation, supply chain analysis, parcel management, asset recovery, technology and government.  122 customers representing manufacturing, retail and government, 6,000 teammates, 94 facilities located throughout the United States and Canada with 30 million square feet of covered space, over 100 installations of GENCO's proprietary software in United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
  • How GENCO has led change and improved operations for a multi product line distribution Centre
  • Understand how GENCO creates value-add in process innovation and facilitating customer service excellence
  • Development of a flexible workforce and adapting to labour strategies

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Kraft Canada Inc.
Kraft Foods Inc. is one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies with revenues of $34 B and sales in 155 countries. The Vancouver site has been a Kraft plant for more than 20 years but began as the Dickson’s Importing Company in 1895. It is the oldest coffee producing operation in Western Canada with continuous operations for 113 years and is the largest dedicated foodservice coffee plant west of Ontario. Brands include Maxwell House, Nabob, Dickson’s Melrose, as well as several well known customer label brands. The plant understands the need to focus on key core processes to drive continuous improvement in quality, cost, delivery, safety, and morale in order to remain competitive and deliver successful results year after year.
  • Lean Concepts
  • Documentation and Document Control
  • Training and Certification
  • Objective setting process and tracking systems
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Error Proofing

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Kodak (Graphic Communications Canada)
Kodak is the world’s foremost imaging innovator, providing leading products and services to the photographic, graphic communications and healthcare markets. Kodak is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Kodak’s Annacis Island manufacturing site produces advanced Computer-to-Plate imaging equipment for the Graphics Communications Group. Established as Creo, the facility has been going through a sustained Lean journey over the past six years, recently adopting the practices of the Kodak Operating System.
  • Our steps and major obstacles along the way
  • How continuous improvement equals continuous change
  • The impact of Lean practices on our New Product introduction processes
  • Kodak’s ultimate conflict, Lean vs MRP

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Arpac Storage Systems Corporation
Arpac Storage Systems is Western Canada’s leading manufacturer and distributor of a broad range of material handling equipment. Established over thirty years ago as a distributor of shelving products in the Lower Mainland; Arpac’s activities now include manufacturing and direct distribution of material handling products in British Columbia and Alberta. Arpac’s growth success is attributed to providing value to its customers. We do this by challenging our employees to provide innovative “Lean Thinking” solutions for our customers.
  • Arpac Storage Systems has been aggressively pursuing “Lean” for the last four years
  • Using “Lean Tools” and “Rewards & Recognition’ to build a company with a strong culture focused on continuous improvement

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EBCO Industries Ltd.
For over 51 years, EBCO has been providing custom machining and fabrication services to its customers around the world. The company’s plant in Richmond, BC consists of 240,000 sq. ft. of shop and office space. EBCO’s capabilities include heavy machining and fabrication of components of all sizes, with lifting capacity of up to 180 tons, includes welding of all types of metals, precision machining, and assembly of very large machinery, such as mining shovels and crushers. EBCO built the first commercial cyclotron in Canada and the EBCO Group continues to design, produce and market cyclotron systems internationally. EBCO was awarded the 2006 Leadership Award by BC Export Awards.
  • The EBCO corporate value system
  • Project management in a large-scale, custom, one-stop, highly diverse, manufacturing environment
  • The unique combination of processing equipment and tools necessary to achieve world class manufacturing
    excellence in heavy fabrication
  • The Advance Cyclotron Systems story - how EBCO became a leader in this field through excellence in the design, building and installing state-of-the-art cyclotrons worldwide

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Brandt Engineered Products Ltd.
Brandt Engineered Products Ltd. has a dedicated staff of machinists, fabricators, technicians, designers, engineers and project managers who specialize in manufacturing innovative equipment. BEPL has sustained consistent growth over the years to become a leading force in the supply of design/build-to-order pipe mill equipment, railroad maintenance and motive power equipment to customers around the world. Housed in their 112,000 sq. ft. Regina facility, Brandt has, for seven consecutive years, been recognized as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Company.

This event will include visiting two of Brandt’s Regina manufacturing facilities.
  • Challenges we have overcome with a nation-wide skills shortage and phenomenal sales growth in the past
    several years
  • Strategic planning and deployment through management team approach
  • Team building - using small, flexible teams to tackle the job shop environment
  • Performance measurement to drive continuous improvement
  • Material Management, JIT and Kanban to minimize verbal instruction
  • A visual workplace is the foundation for computerless scheduling and material flow

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Weldco-Beales Manufacturing
Weldco-Beales is a world leader in the design and manufacturing of heavy equipment attachments and cranes for the construction, resource, forestry, mining, and road maintenance industries. Weldco-Beales service oriented approach has everything to do with our goal to make our customers successful. Across North America, thousands of trucks, excavators, dozers, wheel loaders, and motor graders are working with a full range of Weldco-Beales attachments. Weldco-Beales’ engineers and technicians use state-of-the-art design software, including solid 3-D modeling and Finite Element Analysis. Highly skilled operators use computerized numerical controlled (CNC) machining centers, lathes, mills, rolls, robotic welding and computer controlled plasma cutters to produce the best quality products for their customers.
  • Visual planning boards
  • Getting organized using 5S
  • Developing visual work flow
  • Using robotics and cells to becomemore competitive
  • The challenge of change and culture

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Net Safety Monitoring Inc.
Net Safety Monitoring Inc. is a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of fixed toxic and combustible gas detectors, flame detectors, safety systems, and ancillary safety and security products. Net Safety has built a reputation for developing products that are engineered for continuous performance, even in the most extreme environments. At our state-of-the-art R&D lab and manufacturing facility we enforce strict quality standards and intelligent engineering to ensure that all our products meet the demands of the toughest industrial environments and applications - all certified to the strictest global standards for safety and performance.
  • Lean - Process Excellence
  • Corporate Training Program
     

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Westeel
Westeel is a manufacturer of storage products for bulk commodities including grain, fertilizer and petroleum. Its history dates back to 1905, when it was formed as the Winnipeg Ceiling and Roofing Company. Today, the company’s manufactured products include grain silos, granular and liquid fertilizer bins, and multiple lines of petroleum storage tanks. The company also sells grain handling and conditioning equipment. Westeel’s products are sold worldwide. Westeel employs approximately 500 people at its manufacturing facilities located in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Tisdale and Olds.
  • An Implementation Methodology for Lean Manufacturing
  • Cellular manufacturing
  • The power of automation to enhance capacity
  • The power of the Kaizen Event The way to change culture

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Westfield Industries
For over 50 years, Westfield Industries has been designing and building the finest grain augers in the world. They’ve refined the product line to incorporate the best farm tested designs, engineering, materials and components to give farmers top performance and value that they can count on. Westfield Industries have integrated Lean manufacturing into their daily operations and just completed an impressive transformation at the Rosenort facility. The newly configured plant incorporates Lean principles and a Kanban system throughout their operations. The end results - reclaim shop floor space; improve their competitive position in the marketplace; improve their overall work environment addressing safety, ergonomics and cross training opportunities; and achieve greater empowerment on the shop floor.
  • How the transformation of the Rosenort facility was carried out and the magnitude of the resulting
    benefits
  • How Lean manufacturing has been integrated so as to be a way of life in the facility
  • The plantwide use of Kanban to link all operations in the plant
  • How the operations are coordinated through visual workplace applications

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Arnes Welding Ltd.
KWE BUILD ‘EM BETTER
“We Build’em Better” has been the motto and focus of “Arne’s” serving the construction industry needs for 54 years. As an intrinsic part of our culture we will continue to provide you with innovative state of the art solutions to your transportation needs. We have 83,000 square feet of plant space and 10,000 square feet of office space on a 5 acre property.
WHO WE ARE
The focus of Arne’s has always been superior quality and hence our End dump, Side Dump, Hoppers, Low beds and Specialty trailers enjoy a virtually trouble free, low maintenance cost, long life as well as the highest resale value in the market. These factors have led to strong brand preference and loyalty by the end users of our product.
  • Strategic direction
  • Transformation to Lean
  • Employee engagement

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