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6th Annual TWI Summit Agenda 
 

  Countries represented at this year's TWI Summit! Don't miss it!

 

 

Optional Pre-Summit Workshops
Monday,
May 14, 2012

OPTIONAL MORNING WORKSHOP
8:00AM – 12:00PM     Fee: $375

TWI 101: Patrick Graupp and Dick Jackson

OPTIONAL AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
1:00PM – 5:00PM      Fee: $375

Achieving Standardized Work
Martha Purrier and Patrick Graupp

 

Presenting Organizations

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
 

About Tracks... You are are encouraged to choose sessions which best meet your learning objectives. You are not committed to a single track.

 

 

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

7:00 - 8:00AM

Networking Breakfast

8:00 - 9:15AM

Morning Keynote
Mike Rother
Author of Learning to See and Toyota Kata

Create the Future!
Mike Rother is one of the world's foremost lean thinkers as he investigates issues of management, leadership, improvement, adaptiveness and change. The findings explained in the book Toyota Kata will change how you think about management, innovation and lean. Toyota Kata is about what to practice in order to develop habits of continuous improvement and adaptiveness in any organization. The skill is teachable - Toyota Kata shows you how.

9:15 - 9:30AM

Break

9:30 - 10:40AM    Breakout #1

Using TWI & Coaching to Build a Culture of Capable
and Committed Employees

Michael Cordon
OC Tanner

Advanced Management of Job Instruction Sourced Standard Work!

Greg MacDougall
Cogent Power


Recognizing TWI’s Place Amongst the Virginia Mason Production System

Martha Purrier
Virginia Mason Medical

10:40 - 10:55AM

Break

10:55 - 12:05PM    Breakout #2

The Seven Kata of Lean: TWI & Toyota Kata

Pat Boutier &
Conrad Soltero
TMAC

Lessons Learned After Three Years of Application

Alan Gross and
Jennifer Dietter
Currier Plastics


Spreading Job Instruction Across an Organization

Lisa Miller
St. Joseph Heritage
Medical Group

12:05 - 12:15PM

Break

12:15 - 1:15PM

Networking Lunch

1:15 - 1:25PM

Break

1:25 - 2:35PM    Breakout #3

 

Operations Transformation and Integrating TWI

Dean Burrows
Nixon Gear, Inc.

JI and JR, Making It Stick Beyond The Easy Bit

Oscar Roche & Ben
Visual Workplace Australasia


Improving Patient Safety in 20 Minutes or Less:
Using TWI to remove the dodginess in pressure
mulcer prevention

Ellen Noel
 Virginia Mason Medical

2:35 - 2:45PM

Break

2:45 - 3:55PM    Breakout #4

Lessons on How to
Achieve Long Term Sustainability of TWI

Scott Curtis
Albany International

Change the Game –
Change the World:  The Art and Science of Creating Learning Organizations
in Business and Sport

Don Dinero, Alan Lambert, Swen Nater, Doug Saylor & Mark Siwik


Sustaining Lean Thinking With TWI in a Nonprofit Organization: Restoration to Health Strategic Initiative

Patrick Anderson
Chugachmiut

3:55 - 4:05PM

Break

4:05 - 5:05PM    Breakout #5

   

Discoveries of TWI

TWI & Lean Practitioners

TWI Does More Than You Think: A Discussion About The Use Of TWI In Building A Learning Organization

Don Dinero

Implementing TWI
 in Non-Manufacturing Organizations

Mark Siwik, Patrick Anderson, and Joe Swartz

 

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
 

 

 

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

7:00 - 8:00AM

Networking Breakfast

8:00 - 9:15AM

Morning Keynote
Jean Cunningham
Author and Lean Pioneer

Jean is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of lean led lean transformations in HR, IT, Accounting, and throughout the enterprise. And she did this in the early 90’s before the current body of knowledge was formed. She was key in creating the lean body of knowledge and her story at Lantech was chronicled in Womack's ground-breaking book
"Lean Thinking."

9:15 - 9:30AM

Break

9:30 - 10:40AM    Breakout #6

Sustaining TWI at Toyoda Gosei: Effective Training and Continuous Improvement Through Job Instruction

Jaime Portillo
Toyoda Gosei

Maximizing Return on Investment from TWI-JI Training

Denis Becker & Bob Baird
Gemalto


Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Maintaining Improvements in Healthcare

Joe Swartz
St. Francis Health

10:40 - 10:55AM

Break

10:55 - 12:05PM    Breakout #7

Patheon Case Study

Milica Kovacevic

Role of the Champion for Improvement: Comparing Methods in Industry and Education

Sam Wagner
Donnelly Custom Mfg.


The Good, The Bad, and The ROI – How TWI has impacted personnel, process, and the bottom line at AIT Laboratories

Kathy Lee & April Clark
AIT Labs

12:05 - 12:15PM

Break

12:15 - 1:15PM

Networking Lunch

1:15 - 1:25PM

Break

1:25 - 2:35PM    Breakout #8

JI Implementation & Beyond, Sustaining your Success

Suzanne Smith and
Michele Ganter
W.L. Gore & Associates

Becoming a TWI Culture: Rosie the Riveter Meet
“Big Bertha and the Green Machine"

David Welch
Nebraska Furniture Mart


Using a Reliable Method
for Training (JI) to Improve Patient Safety at Seattle Children’s Hospital

Mary Alida Brisk
Seattle Children’s Hospital

2:35 - 2:45PM

Break

2:45 - 3:45PM    Breakout #9

   

TWI and Problem Solving

TWI & Lean Practitioners

How Do I Get My Management Interested
in TWI?

Richard Abercromie

Lessons in
TWI Leadership

Martha Purrier, Scott Curtis, and Sam Wagner

 

Optional Post-Summit Training
Wednesday
, May 16
, 2012

 

SOLD OUT
Accepting Standby
for a 2nd Class

Only 2 JR
Seats Remain

4:00PM – 6:00PM

Job Instruction Training
Instructor: Richard Abercrombie
Program: Session #1

Job Relations Training
Instructor: Patrick Graupp
Program:  Session #1


Thursday, May 17
, 2012

8:00AM – 10:00AM

Job Instruction
Program: Session #2

Job Relations
Program:  Session #2

1:00PM – 3:00PM

"Job Instruction"
Program: Session #3

Job Relations
Program:  Session #3


Friday
, May 18
, 2012
PLEASE NOTE: Plan flights accordingly as sessions will run through 3PM on Friday. Alternate travel plans can not be accommodated and certificates can not be issued unless all 5 sessions are completed. Plan to stay one more night with your fellow "J Training" participants!

8:00AM – 10:00AM

Job Instruction
Program: Session #4

Job Relations
Program:  Session #4

1:00PM – 3:00PM

Job Instruction
Program: Session #5

Job Relations
Program:  Session #5


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