《20160519 - Making Lean Stick》.pdf

Webinar “Housekeeping” Suggestions First things first Disable any pop-up blocking software Adjusting volume • Use slide at the top right of the question box • Adjust within Windows Media Player and RealPlayer; or • Adjust the master sound control on your system (in the Control Panel) Viewing slides • Enlarge • Print Need help? • Use the “Help” button on the webinar console to go to /clients/help/index.html Freddy Ballé architect of the Lean Production Systems at Renault Industrial Vehicles, Valeo, Sommer-Allibert and Faurecia and co-author of The Gold Mine Freddy Ballé worked as a manufacturing and engineering manager at Renault for 30 years where he was manufacturing engineering director and then industrial vice president for the Renault truck business, Renault Industrial Vehicles. He started visiting Toyota plants in Japan in the mid-1970s, where he discovered the power of the Toyota Production System. On leaving Renault, Freddy became technical vice president of Valeo, where he created the Valeo Production System, based on Toyota practice, which pioneered lean implementation in continental Europe. He was then CEO of the French automotive supplier Sommer-Allibert, where he introduced the Sommer-Allibert Excellence System. He wound up his corporate career as technical vice president of the French automotive supplier Faurecia as it implemented the Faurecia Excellence System. In recent years Freddy has founded ESG Consultants () to advise industrial clients on making the lean transformation described in The Gold Mine. A lean system rests on the plant managers The main success factor of lean impl