HPM Events 2010

6 Board Meetings 

The focus of Board meetings is to provide: leveraging opportunities to Board Members. an education section based on the needs of the member companies, and a leveraging or sharing section with the host company providing details on a best practice with feedback from attendees. Facility tours are optional...

qBoard Meeting 2 – Mar. 24 – Rockwell

qExpert Education Event- May 20- Hosted by RuggedCom

qBoard Meeting 3 – Jun. 24 – Velcro 

qBoard Meeting 4 – August 24 SunOpta

qBoard Meeting 5 – Sept. 21 – Labelad

qBoard Meeting 6 – Oct  19 –Hammond Power Solutions

qStrategic Planning Session – Dec. 7 – TBD

Events Planned

1 Consortium Learning Event(CLE) per company 

A CLE is a focused improvement event occurring over 1½ days. The first day has an education section based on the focus of the event and a leveraging section identifying and developing improvement opportunities through the use of an A3. The second ½ day 

is focused on completing the supporting A3 improvement plan with the Host company’s internal improvement team. There is a 20 day follow-up by the consortium members that attend the event. 

 8 Forums / Roundtables/ Special Interest Groups(SIGs) 

These are events consisting of a more focused learning opportunity at a Member company and can include an internal or external presenter/facilitator. These events can be exclusive to HPM Membership only or open to attendance to and from other Consortium Members. These events focus around the following topics and are member determined based on interest and relevant importance to the host company.  Topics or areas of focus include: 

• 5S and Auditing

• 5S &Visual Workplace

• Continuous Improvement Through Teams(CITT)

• Culture and  Leadership

• Employee Engagement Human Resources

• Health & Safety

• Problem Solving-A3s

• Sustainability-Green

• Total Preventative Maintenance(TPM)

1 Share Showcase 

 A Share Showcase event includes companies sharing and learning from and through the experience of other companies about their ways that they successfully apply their best practices. The focus is to leverage as many Best Practice presentations during the day and continue to develop the sharing between member companies and to learn the best ways of working to achieve one’s business objectives. Event Date: Nov, 25 2010