The Lean Forum exists to encourage the sharing of ideas on Best Practice, Continuous Improvement and lean through networking, visits and workshops. We have groups in the Solent, Humber, West Midlands and South Wales but in this virtual world we are extending invites to companies across the UK & Ireland.
Guest Speaker: TBC
Topic: Reflection & Celebration
The meeting will be delivered via Zoom.
The Lean Forum exists to encourage the sharing of ideas on Best Practice, Continuous Improvement and lean through networking, visits and workshops. We have groups in the Solent, Humber, West Midlands and South Wales but in this virtual world we are extending invites to companies across the UK & Ireland.
Guest Speaker: TBC
Topic: Reflection & Celebration
The meeting will be delivered via Zoom.
The Lean Forum exists to encourage the sharing of ideas on Best Practice, Continuous Improvement and lean through networking, visits and workshops. We have groups in the Solent, Humber, West Midlands and South Wales but in this virtual world we are extending invites to companies across the UK & Ireland.
Guest Speaker: TBC
Topic: Reflection & Celebration
The meeting will be delivered via Zoom.
The Lean Forum exists to encourage the sharing of ideas on Best Practice, Continuous Improvement and lean through networking, visits and workshops. We have groups in the Solent, Humber, West Midlands and South Wales but in this virtual world we are extending invites to companies across the UK & Ireland.
Guest Speaker: TBC
Topic: Reflection & Celebration
The meeting will be delivered via Zoom.
The Lean Forum exists to encourage the sharing of ideas on Best Practice, Continuous Improvement and lean through networking, visits and workshops. We have groups in the Solent, Humber, West Midlands and South Wales but in this virtual world we are extending invites to companies across the UK & Ireland.
Guest Speaker: TBC
Topic: Reflection & Celebration
The meeting will be delivered via Zoom.
The Lean Forum exists to encourage the sharing of ideas on Best Practice, Continuous Improvement and lean through networking, visits and workshops. We have groups in the Solent, Humber, West Midlands and South Wales but in this virtual world we are extending invites to companies across the UK & Ireland.
Guest Speaker: TBC
Topic: Reflection & Celebration
The meeting will be delivered via Zoom.
As our name implies, we are an international fruit marketing and distribution Company. We source products globally, from over 1000 growers worldwide ensuring continuity of supply 365 days of the year.
Established in January 2000, we are an award winning business supplying top quality fruit to the UK’s leading supermarkets. Specialising in apples, pears and avocados and with offices in Spalding, Lincolnshire and Whitstable, Kent, we employ 452 people and have a turnover of over £220 million per annum.
Product is sourced from top quality suppliers in the UK, New Zealand, South America, South Africa, USA and Europe. Our Packhouse at Spalding handles 4.4 million cases per annum which equates to 52.8 million packs.
We truly believe our employees are our greatest asset and are proud to have been awarded the Investors In People Gold Award, FPC Best Place to Work
Award and we have S A Partners Gold Accreditation.
Our four Company values were chosen in consultation with our people and they chose – Passion – Quality – Innovation – Together. Our Company mission is to be “Customers First Choice”. With the introduction of a coaching culture and the development of a lean production system,
continuous improvement is how we do business.
Process Control…Flow…Visual Management…Strategy & Deployment…Communication Boards…Problem Solving Activities
10.00 Arrival & Welcome
10.30 Lean & CI Journey – Team Insights/Development
11.00 Factory Tour (Gemba)
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Overview on Ent Ex System and Annual Objectives
14.00 Ohno Circle Exercise (at the Gemba)
14.30 Feedback
15.00 Q&A and Close
With a global supply network and a portfolio of branded and customer own brand products, Princes is one of Europe’s largest food and drink groups.
We specialise in sourcing and manufacturing quality products and, as a leading international grocery supplier, millions of consumers across Europe buy our brands and products every day.
Owned by Newlat Foods since 2024 the company continues to grow both organically and through acquisition.
Princes Food brands include: Napolina, C&D, Flora, Batchelors, Branston, Crosse & Blackwell, Jucee and Trex. Its own branded products are well established household names across the world.
The company’s vision is Delighting more people with more sustainable choices. They are proudly offering great tasting choices for everyone without costing the earth.
Six Sigma…Lean Manufacturing…Visual Management…Quality…Employee Engagement…Just in Time…People & Engagement…Kanban…Process Improvement
9.30 Arrival & Welcome
09.45 Overview of Princes & Edible Oils
10.15 Operational Excellence through Lean Deployment
10.40 Refreshment Break
10.50 Site Tour/Taste Panel
13.00 Lunch & Networking
13.40 Engaging People
14.00 Review & Feedback
14.30 Close
NHS Blood & Transplant employs over 5,000 people in over 200 locations across the UK. This remarkable organisation provides a blood and transplantation service to the NHS, looking after blood donation services in England and transplant services across the UK. This includes managing the donation, storage and transplantation of blood, organs, tissues, bone marrow and stem cells, and researching new treatments and processes.
Manufacturing operations have been transformed in recent years and manufacturing and testing sites have been consolidated. A new, integrated supply chain approach has helped balance supply and demand.
This visit is being hosted at the manufacturing and processing centre in Filton, Bristol and it will provide an insight into how this incredible organisation has developed and applied a programme of continuous improvement within a diverse and highly complex organisation. NHS Blood & Transplant has a unique role within the wider NHS of saving and improving lives through relationships and services delivered to both volunteer donors and hospitals.
During the visit you will:
Lean Principles … Continuous Improvement … Cultural challenges … External partnerships
10.00 Arrival and Signing In
10.15 Welcome & Introductions
10.40 NHSBT Filton – our Lean Journey
11.10 Virtual Reality – Vein to Vein
11:40 Tour of Manufacturing
12.30 Networking Lunch
13.15 Tour of Hospital Services
14:00 CI Academy
14.45 Q & A
15:15 Feedback session
NHS Blood & Transplant employs over 5,000 people in over 200 locations across the UK. This remarkable organisation provides a blood and transplantation service to the NHS, looking after blood donation services in England and transplant services across the UK. This includes managing the donation, storage and transplantation of blood, organs, tissues, bone marrow and stem cells, and researching new treatments and processes.
Manufacturing operations have been transformed in recent years and manufacturing and testing sites have been consolidated. A new, integrated supply chain approach has helped balance supply and demand.
This visit is being hosted at the manufacturing and processing centre in Plymouth Grove, Manchester and it will provide an insight into how this incredible organisation has developed and applied a programme of continuous improvement within a diverse and highly complex organisation. NHS Blood & Transplant has a unique role within the wider NHS of saving and improving lives through relationships and services delivered to both volunteer donors and hospitals.
During the visit you will:
Lean Principles … Continuous Improvement … Cultural challenges … External partnerships
10.00 Arrival and Signing In
10.15 Welcome & Introductions
10.40 NHSBT Manchester – our Lean Journey
11.10 Virtual Reality – Vein to Vein
11:40 Tour of Donor Centre
12.30 Networking Lunch
13.15 Tour of Manufacturing
14:00 Tour of Hospital Services
14.45 Q & A
15:15 Feedback session
NHS Blood & Transplant employs over 5,000 people in over 200 locations across the UK. This remarkable organisation provides a blood and transplantation service to the NHS, looking after blood donation services in England and transplant services across the UK. This includes managing the donation, storage and transplantation of blood, organs, tissues, bone marrow and stem cells, and researching new treatments and processes.
Manufacturing operations have been transformed in recent years and manufacturing and testing sites have been consolidated. A new, integrated supply chain approach has helped balance supply and demand. This has led to an increase in productivity since 2008/09 of 75% in manufacturing and 98% in testing.
This visit is being hosted at the manufacturing and processing centre in Colindale, London and it will provide an insight into how this incredible organisation has developed and applied a programme of continuous improvement within a diverse and highly complex organisation. NHS Blood & Transplant has a unique role within the wider NHS of saving and improving lives through relationships and services delivered to both volunteer donors and hospitals.
During the visit you will:
Lean Principles … Continuous Improvement … Cultural challenges … External partnerships
10.00 Arrival and Signing In
10.15 Welcome & Introductions
10.40 NHSBT Colindale – our Lean Journey
11.10 Virtual Reality – Vein to Vein
11:40 Tour of Manufacturing
12.30 Networking Lunch
13.15 Tour of Hospital Services
14:00 Overview of Cord Blood Bank
14.45 Q & A
15:15 Feedback session
With a global supply network and a portfolio of branded and customer own brand products, Princes is one of Europe’s largest food and drink groups.
We specialise in sourcing and manufacturing quality products and, as a leading international grocery supplier, millions of consumers across Europe buy our brands and products every day.
Owned by Newlat Foods since 2024 the company continues to grow both organically and through acquisition.
Princes Food brands include: Napolina, C&D, Flora, Batchelors, Branston, Crosse & Blackwell, Jucee and Trex. Its own branded products are well established household names across the world.
The company’s vision is Delighting more people with more sustainable choices. They are proudly offering great tasting choices for everyone without costing the earth.
Six Sigma…Lean Manufacturing…Visual Management…Quality…Employee Engagement…Just in Time…People & Engagement…Kanban…Process Improvement
9.30 Arrival & Welcome
09.45 Overview of Princes & Edible Oils
10.15 Operational Excellence through Lean Deployment
10.40 Refreshment Break
10.50 Site Tour/Taste Panel
13.00 Lunch & Networking
13.40 Engaging People
14.00 Review & Feedback
14.30 Close
Cummins is the only manufacturer focused solely on medium-to heavy-duty diesel engine turbo technologies. For more than 60 years, they have delivered innovative, reliable turbocharger solutions for their customers.
Commercial diesel engines require advanced technologies that deliver efficiency and meet strict emissions requirements. Our fixed, wastegate, variable, two-stage, turbo-compounding and waste heat expander technologies were specifically developed to deliver higher efficiency and lower cost.
Today, Cummins Turbo Technologies engineers are actively developing state of the art solutions for the next generation, including assisted turbocharging, new bearing systems and enhanced compressor stage performance.
The Huddersfield site is currently undergoing a major refurbishment to improve flow and support their operational excellence initiatives, as well as future-proofing the facility to ensure they can meet emerging demands of the wider group.
Plant Refurb Project … Journey to Automation … Digital Team Boards … HSE Culture … New Technology Introduction
09.30: Arrival & Introductions
10:00: CMI Business Overview
10:20: Operational Excellence Exercise 1
11:00: Operational Excellence/6 Sigma
11:15: Plant Tour 1
12:15: Lunch
13:00: Plant Tour 2
14:00: Operational Excellence Exercise 2
14:45: Q&A & Close out
15:00: Depart
Cummins is the only manufacturer focused solely on medium-to heavy-duty diesel engine turbo technologies. For more than 60 years, they have delivered innovative, reliable turbocharger solutions for their customers.
Commercial diesel engines require advanced technologies that deliver efficiency and meet strict emissions requirements. Our fixed, wastegate, variable, two-stage, turbo-compounding and waste heat expander technologies were specifically developed to deliver higher efficiency and lower cost.
Today, Cummins Turbo Technologies engineers are actively developing state of the art solutions for the next generation, including assisted turbocharging, new bearing systems and enhanced compressor stage performance.
The Huddersfield site is currently undergoing a major refurbishment to improve flow and support their operational excellence initiatives, as well as future-proofing the facility to ensure they can meet emerging demands of the wider group.
Plant Refurb Project … Journey to Automation … Digital Team Boards … HSE Culture … New Technology Introduction
09.30: Arrival & Introductions
10:00: CMI Business Overview
10:20: Operational Excellence Exercise 1
11:00: Operational Excellence/6 Sigma
11:15: Plant Tour 1
12:15: Lunch
13:00: Plant Tour 2
14:00: Operational Excellence Exercise 2
14:45: Q&A & Close out
15:00: Depart
Morgan Furniture is a wholly British, design orientated, business making seating and tables for the contract market from its dedicated 4500m2 factory in Hampshire. It is a family-owned business.
At Morgan we believe the design and manufacture of truly original, high-quality furniture is the result of passion, care, design integrity, experience, craftsmanship and an unfaltering dedication to quality. This commitment could not be realised without fully integrating the design and manufacturing processes. At our factory and studio in Hampshire we start the process with trees and finish with beautifully crafted chairs.
Lean & Continuous Improvement
Our journey in Lean and Continuous Improvement began over 20 years ago and similar to many organisations the path has not always been straight. We have re-focused the activity in recent years to build capability across the whole organisation; we have begun development of our own Lean Academy and will share with visitors how this has worked and is delivering results. We have embraced all of the key Lean tools and are proud of the team’s improvement initiatives. We will share with visitors on the site tour the visual management that we use to support strategy deployment and improvement projects.
Improvement Projects
Our improvement projects are owned and embraced by each of our team members. On
the visit we will share with you how we support and celebrate these as part of our journey to excellence. You will also see how we have created ownership of Five S and improvement in every area of both the factory and operations.
Design-Led Manufacturing
Our products are bespoke and hand crafted. Our clients include both international hospitality organisations and we are increasingly working with high-end commercial specifiers for office furnishings. We will share with visitors how we embrace our core
value of being ‘Design-Led within our manufacturing process.
Lean…Continuous Improvement…Improvement Projects…Design-Led Manufacturing…Visual Management…Five S…Building CI capability
10.00 Welcome & Introductions
10.30 Our Lean & CI Journey & Engaging our team
11.30 Site Tour (Gemba)
12.30 Lunch
13.00 Improvement Projects
14.00 Close & Depart
Morgan Furniture is a wholly British, design orientated, business making seating and tables for the contract market from its dedicated 4500m2 factory in Hampshire. It is a family-owned business.
At Morgan we believe the design and manufacture of truly original, high-quality furniture is the result of passion, care, design integrity, experience, craftsmanship and an unfaltering dedication to quality. This commitment could not be realised without fully integrating the design and manufacturing processes. At our factory and studio in Hampshire we start the process with trees and finish with beautifully crafted chairs.
Lean & Continuous Improvement
Our journey in Lean and Continuous Improvement began over 20 years ago and similar to many organisations the path has not always been straight. We have re-focused the activity in recent years to build capability across the whole organisation; we have begun development of our own Lean Academy and will share with visitors how this has worked and is delivering results. We have embraced all of the key Lean tools and are proud of the team’s improvement initiatives. We will share with visitors on the site tour the visual management that we use to support strategy deployment and improvement projects.
Improvement Projects
Our improvement projects are owned and embraced by each of our team members. On
the visit we will share with you how we support and celebrate these as part of our journey to excellence. You will also see how we have created ownership of Five S and improvement in every area of both the factory and operations.
Design-Led Manufacturing
Our products are bespoke and hand crafted. Our clients include both international hospitality organisations and we are increasingly working with high-end commercial specifiers for office furnishings. We will share with visitors how we embrace our core
value of being ‘Design-Led within our manufacturing process.
Lean…Continuous Improvement…Improvement Projects…Design-Led Manufacturing…Visual Management…Five S…Building CI capability
10.00 Welcome & Introductions
10.30 Our Lean & CI Journey & Engaging our team
11.30 Site Tour (Gemba)
12.30 Lunch
13.00 Improvement Projects
14.00 Close & Depart
Happy is a multi-award-winning company, In 2022 Happy was voted in the top 2 in the UK and the top 15 in Europe in the Great Place to Work awards, small business section. A training company based in Aldgate, central London, Happy employs just 22 people but has won widespread recognition for its unique approach.
The core principle at Happy is that people work best when they feel good about themselves. The main purpose of the company management is to create a framework where people do indeed feel good about themselves. The result is a people-focused business that has won a plethora of prestigious awards (see below). The business benefits of this approach are clear, and the company has a waiting list of over 2000 people for the next job vacancy!
Creating a great place to work
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What makes a great place to work? Involving visitors, Happy will reveal key principles and specific steps to take to make your workplace one that people will really want to work in. Recognise how to create a blame-free environment and identify the key principle for management focus.
Great customer service
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The first principle of great customer service is: Treat your customers as you would want to be treated. The visit will involve the audience in bringing together great and poor customer service experiences and lead to practical steps you can take. You will recognise what differentiates great service from normal service and identify key steps to help your organisation to improve.
Positive social impact
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Discover ways to develop the social effect of your organisations work on employees and the wider community.
Creating a great place to work … Empowerment methods … Great customer service … Net Promoter Scores … Recruitment and Interviewing techniques … HR & Delegation … 360 appraisals … Inspiring people … Change culture … Work Life Balance … Community Service (CSR)
Unit 1 10:00 – 12:30
Unit 2 13:15 – 15:00
Happy is a multi-award-winning company, In 2022 Happy was voted in the top 2 in the UK and the top 15 in Europe in the Great Place to Work awards, small business section. A training company based in Aldgate, central London, Happy employs just 22 people but has won widespread recognition for its unique approach.
The core principle at Happy is that people work best when they feel good about themselves. The main purpose of the company management is to create a framework where people do indeed feel good about themselves. The result is a people-focused business that has won a plethora of prestigious awards (see below). The business benefits of this approach are clear, and the company has a waiting list of over 2000 people for the next job vacancy!
Creating a great place to work
________________________
What makes a great place to work? Involving visitors, Happy will reveal key principles and specific steps to take to make your workplace one that people will really want to work in. Recognise how to create a blame-free environment and identify the key principle for management focus.
Great customer service
__________________
The first principle of great customer service is: Treat your customers as you would want to be treated. The visit will involve the audience in bringing together great and poor customer service experiences and lead to practical steps you can take. You will recognise what differentiates great service from normal service and identify key steps to help your organisation to improve.
Positive social impact
_________________
Discover ways to develop the social effect of your organisations work on employees and the wider community.
Creating a great place to work … Empowerment methods … Great customer service … Net Promoter Scores … Recruitment and Interviewing techniques … HR & Delegation … 360 appraisals … Inspiring people … Change culture … Work Life Balance … Community Service (CSR)
Unit 1 10:00 – 12:30
Unit 2 13:15 – 15:00