Monday Afternoon, August 2

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Co-Chairs:

Donald Lynch, Ph.D., Corporate Master Black Belt, Six Sigma Department, Visteon, Inc.and Patrick Hammett, Ph.D., Associate Director, Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation; Co-Director, Six Sigma Programs, College of Engineering, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Colin Smart, Vice President, Six Sigma, TRW

Ismael Sanchez, Senior Vice President, Quality and Productivity, Bank of America

Barton O'Brien, Vice President, Business Development, Attensity Corporation

Deb Yeager, Director, Corporate Six Sigma, Ford Motor Company

Best Enterprise Practices in the Automotive Industry?

Many companies make the mistake of viewing lean and six sigma as two unrelated tool kits to be used in isolation on different problems. Experience has shown that lean cannot bring a process under statistical control, and six sigma alone cannot dramatically improve process speed or reduce invested capital. Used together, lean six sigma complement and reinforce each other. This workshop will demonstrate the link between variation and flow and will further show how to define six sigma projects from a value stream perspective.

Speakers in this workshop will emphasize that lean and six sigma are related parts of a total system and philosophy of management, and that lean tools and six sigma tools are interrelated and provide a powerful toolkit in support of the overall system. Best practices and actual implementations will be the focus of the presentations from industry OEMs and suppliers. Presentations will cover both manufacturing and service/transactional case studies recognizing that lean six sigma is being applied to the entire corporate enterprise.

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