The constant change in the assembly

Lean expert Hitoshi Takeda guest at the Annual Meeting Management
Circle "Assembly 2012" in Stuttgart
Assembly 2012
Marktheidenfeld, 04.11.2011, Installation, set the pace of production
and the final link in the product development process, is due to the
high proportion and variety of complex mechanical processes as a
costly link in the chain of production. The challenges: Long set-up
and processing times, confusing material buffers on the lines,
inadequate implementation of the one-piece-flow, and ever-increasing
demands on the skills of employees. Against this background, discusses
the eleventh Annual Meeting Management Circle "Assembly" on 7 and 8
February 2012 in Stuttgart probate strategies and new ways of Lean
Production. A guest from Japan, Hitoshi Takeda, the founder of the
synchronous production system. In his lecture on " Installation in
constant change "is dedicated to the Lean expert current issues
surrounding the impact of team structure on the organization of the
assembly, the change from individual to team-based Kaizen activities
as well as the Low Cost Intelligent Automation (LCIA) in the assembly.

The other meeting agenda to determine best practice articles and
specialized forums, including the move seminal issues such as energy
efficiency, demographic change, innovative logistics concepts and
Toyota's improvement and coaching kata in the focus. And outlooks
among the things Anton Deiss (Plant Manager, B. Braun Melsungen AG),
Dr. Lutz Angels (Technical Director, Seidel GmbH & Co. KG), Gerhard
Bast (Managing Director, Viessmann Werke GmbH, Allendorf), Thomas
Ottitsch (Factory Technology, Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG), Florian
Cuipers (Inhouse Consulting Manufacturing / production-oriented value
system, BMW Group) and Kersten Bachmann (Production Director Airbags &
Electronics, Takata-Petri AG).

Rounding out the event on the second day with tours of the factory in
Sindelfingen, Daimler AG and the work of Feuerbach by Robert Bosch
GmbH