Shannon Chamber Mid-West Lean Network Conference

Berka Solutions shortlisted for A3 Storyboard at Lean Conference

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Link to Berka Solutions A3 Stroyboard

Future proofing a business through Lean the focus of Shannon Chamber’s Mid-West Lean Network Conference.
With the global economic environment posing challenges for companies in the domestic and export markets, Shannon Chamber has been busy assembling a panel of impressive speakers to demonstrate how companies can future-proof their businesses through using lean principles.
The conference includes an A3 Project Storyboards’ Street event, sponsored by LBS Partners, which is a very dynamic way of showing how companies are solving problems within their organisations.
The ‘Street Event’ will include displays of nine shortlisted A3 storyboards which have been submitted by:

• Atlantic Aviation Group – Material returns to stock
• Edwards Lifesciences – Output increase by 500% on Cleanroom Manufacturing Process
• Edwards Lifesciences – Problems as Gifts – Using A3 approach during enforced downtime to transform process
• Cook Medical – The Plastic Stents manufacturing business unit project
• Analog Devices Limerick – Analog intends to half its carbon footprint by 2030 and has a carbon neutrality goal of zero by 2050
• Berka Solutions Ltd. – Operational Excellence Program for SMEs
• Zimmer Biomet Oranmore – PPK Rosler Risk Reduction
• Zimmer Biomet Oranmore – G7 Hip Cup Anodising Process Capability Improvement – Using Lean methodology to reduce rework rate from the anodising process from 22% to 3% 
• Zimmer Biomet – Rework for two tone and blotching on the anodised surface. 

Each project storyboard will outline the process the company used to attain a solution for their identified problem, with each milestone recorded and an overall quantifiable benefit derived. The storyboards will outline how the judging criteria – problem, process, milestone and benefit – were met. Conference attendees will select the winner via an online voting system in the auditorium.