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Agenda Day One

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

7:00Main Conference Day One: Registration and Morning Coffee
7:30Chairperson Katherine Radeka's Opening Remarks
7:45Profits and Products: The Benefits of LEAN Product Development

Phil Ebeling
Director - Program Management/Project Horizon - Risk Management
Boston Scientific

8:30

Featured Appearance:
Plot a Direction for Lean Success With Key Milestones and Measureables

Richard Kunst
Vice President Continuous Improvement
La-Z-Boy, Canada

9:15

Engineering a Better Game: Eliminate Waste and Non-Value Added Activity Systematically

Daniel R. Shoenhair
Director Engineering Business Manager
Ping, Inc.

10:00Networking Break
10:30

Featured Appearance:
Creating a Lean Culture: Process Focus and Leader Standard Work

David Mann
Lean Management and Organization Development
Steelcase Inc.

11:15

Featured Appearance:
Using Flow to Transform Software Development

Bret Dodd
Section Manager and Sterling Mortensen R&D Section Manager
Hewlett Packard

12:00

Planning Successful Change: Design Lean Processes that Cut Across Boundaries of Function and Organization

Carl Mason
Senior Manager Boeing Commercial Airplanes
The Boeing Company

12:45Luncheon
1:45

Moving the Measure in Support of Lean Transformation at Moen

John Patram
Corporate Sr. Industrial Engineer
Moen Inc.

2:30

Enable Lean Engineering and a Lean Factory through Product Design

Mike Shipulski
Director of Engineering
Hypertherm

3:15Networking Break
3:30

Incorporate the Tools that Work: When and Where to Use Tools like Six Sigma, 5S, Kaizen, and A3 in Your Operations

Craig Estep
Vice President, Citation/Caravan Operations
Cessna Aircraft Company

4:15

Real-World Experiences with Set - Based Concurrent Engineering

Katherine Radeka
President
Whittier Consulting

5:00

Finding Your Purpose and Drive with Value Stream Mapping

Eldon Johnson
Production System Manager
TC Industries, Inc.



5:45 End of Day One