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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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About Tracks...
You are are encouraged to choose
sessions which best meet your
learning objectives. You are not
committed to a single track. |
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Track 1 |
Track 2 |
Track 3 |
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7:00 - 8:00AM |
Networking Breakfast |
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8:00 - 9:15AM |
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 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. |
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9:15 - 9:30AM |
Break |
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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 |
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10:40 - 10:55AM |
Break |
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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 |
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12:05 - 12:15PM |
Break |
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12:15 - 1:15PM |
Networking Lunch |
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1:15 - 1:25PM |
Break |
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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 |
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2:35 - 2:45PM |
Break |
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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 |
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3:55 - 4:05PM |
Break |
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4:05 - 5:05PM
Breakout #5 |
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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
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Track 1 |
Track 2 |
Track 3 |
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7:00 - 8:00AM |
Networking Breakfast |
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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." |
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9:15 - 9:30AM |
Break |
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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 |
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10:40 - 10:55AM |
Break |
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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 |
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12:05 - 12:15PM |
Break |
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12:15 - 1:15PM |
Networking Lunch |
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1:15 - 1:25PM |
Break |
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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 |
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2:35 - 2:45PM |
Break |
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2:45
- 3:45PM Breakout
#9 |
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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 |