(GBMP: Boston, MA) -- The 5th Annual Northeast Shingo Prize Conference will be held Oct. 7-8 at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. The conference focuses on the lean manufacturing philosophy and best practices, and features talks by today's leading lean practitioners, teachers, and experts... as well as peers sharing their experiences implementing lean. You will learn new ways to approach lean to ensure your lean initiative helps you achieve real and lasting improvements.
The theme of this year's conference reflects the belief that lean manufacturing is critical in today's global economy, and that the most critical success factor when implementing lean is getting all employees—from the CEO to the front line—thinking about continuous improvement everyday. The primary goal of the Northeast Region Shingo Prize Conference and it's administrative entity, GBMP Inc., is to provide companies with a framework that enables them to remain competitive on a global level. The conference includes two award ceremonies: one recognizing the 2009 Shingo Medallion and Shingo Prize winners and one for the Silver Toaster Award for Employee Excellence, which recognizes an individual lean champion's contribution to his or her organization's Lean transformation.
Speakers include:
The conference also includes two Virtual Plant Tours, The Community of Lean Lounge, panel discussions, The "Shingo After Dark" networking cocktail reception, and the Shingo Prize Award Ceremony and Banquet.
Speakers and sessions will also emphasize the value of being involved in a community of lean, and the conference features a Community of Lean Lounge where companies on the lean journey will discuss in an informal setting how they began and are sustaining their continuous improvement initiative. Yokoten is the Japanese term for the practice of peer-to-peer sharing, copying, and implementing of kaizen ideas, either exactly or with customized improvements.
Conference registration is now open. Register online at www.neshingoprize.org or call (617) 287-7630. A group discount is available—send five and the sixth is free. If you can only afford to take your employees to one conference this year, this should be it. The caliber of speakers and the learning and networking opportunities are completely unheard of at this price. It is the most affordable opportunity of the year to learn lean from the world's best.
Sponsorship opportunities still remain. Download the prospectus from www.neshingoprize.org. You will also find the guidelines for the Silver Toaster Award on the Northeast Shingo Prize Web site. Nominations are being accepted through August 3, 2009.
The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence, established in 1988, recognizes business excellence around the globe. The philosophy of the Shingo Prize is that world-class performance for quality, cost, and delivery can be achieved through lean principles and techniques in core manufacturing and business processes. Business Week, on May 15, 2000, stated that the Shingo Prize is, "...the Nobel prize of manufacturing...." The Northeast region administered by GBMP Inc. is comprised of eleven states from Maryland to Maine. The annual conference highlights how lean principles, communities, and techniques and tools can guide a company's aspirations to be competitive in global markets.
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