ASQ Montreal — Creating plant-wide enthusiasm for Operational Excellence! (2024.09.25)

Creating plant-wide enthusiasm for Operational Excellence!

Many organizations today are in a journey to create an Operational Excellence (OpEx) culture. Unfortunately, this journey is not always easy and sometimes people may wonder how they could create more buy-in from the different stakeholders, typically:

• What are the components of a typical Operational Excellence road-map?
• What is the best way to start the Operational excellence journey?
• How can I create a pull for the Continuous Improvement practices and tools from the employees?
• How do I integrate the daily management boards with structured problem solving and the Hoshin Kanri process?

This presentation and workshop is based on a real-life case study from the Operational Excellence experience of a pulp mill and how plant-wide enthusiasm about Operational Excellence was generated. It will include the following topics:

• The context of the pulp mill as they started their OpEx journey;
• The principles defined to guide the implementation;
• The strategy chosen to introduce OpEx;
• How that strategy was deployed and the results obtained.

Attendees will leave this presentation with a better understanding of the principles supporting a successful OpEx implementation, as well as a renewed enthusiasm about continuous improvement!

About our speakers:

• Martin Carignan, a partner at Différence GCS Inc., is a consultant with more than twenty years of experience in the field of industrial statistics and performance improvement. He holds a Bachelor degree in Mathematics (actuarial science), a Master degree in Statistics and an MBA. 
  He has helped organizations in improving their performance by implementing standard practices like Hoshin Kanri (strategy deployment), daily management systems and white boards, problem solving coaching and Kaizen blitz facilitation. Martin also provides consulting in industrial statistics: DOE, SPC, Gage R&R, multivariate analysis, etc. He is a well appreciated regular speaker at ASQ Montreal events.
• Annie Quevillon, is Quality, Operational Excellence and Environment Manager at Kruger Products, Gatineau. She has been in the pulp and paper industry for over 25 years. Annie has worked in pulp, fine paper, cardboard and tissue paper mills, in both Canada and France and holds bachelor's degrees, in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry. Annie began her career as a process engineer, then worked several years in production from stock preparation coordinator, paper machine technical assistant to operation manager. She obtained her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in 2015 and acts as an Operational Excellence manager. Annie participated in the implementation of an Operational Excellence culture in a mill through the promotion and use of a systematic problem solving methodology and the Hoshin Kanri approach (strategy deployment). She has trained and coached colleagues in Lean Six Sigma and is passionate about developing people through improving processes and achieving results.
  
  

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