Table of Contents
Upcoming Events
Award Winning Trainees
Implementation Strategy Workshop
Sustainability Roundtables
Survey
Sustainability Benchmarking
Roundtable Meetings
RCA Public Workshops
SIRF Rt Websites
Contact Us
www.sirfrt.com.au
sirfrt@sirfrt.com.au
Roundtable MeetinGs
SIRF Rt now has a calendar function on the website making it much easier for you to keep track of upcoming roundtable events. If you have missed the email from your facilitator or are not yet a roundtable member and want to find out what you’re missing check the roundtables in your state on the calendar and contact the relevant facilitator for an invite.
Members can now easily access presentations and minutes from past meetings by signing into the SIRF Rt website. Just enter your work email address in the box on the SIRF Rt home page www.sirfrt.com.au and you’ll be guided through the process of setting up your preferences.
The first in a series of Common Interest Working Groups on Problem Solving and Implementation was held on the 30th July in South Australia. Issues such as leadership and the need for training were among those discussed by the participants.
RCA Rt runs one and two day Root Cause Analysis training and facilitates onsite RCA investigations. Locate upcoming Public Workshops or contact Melissa at melissa.cameron@sirfrt.com.au or 03 9697 1…
www.rca2go.com – an easy and affordable documentation tool for mapping 5 whys to 6 sigma and includes Reliability Centred Maintenance tool to rationalise PM’s |
August 2009
27th Inaugural Sustainability Roundtable meeting – Melbourne
28th & 29th RCA Public Workshop - Brisbane
Sept 2009
2nd Sustainability Roundtable Meeting - Adelaide
10th Manufacturing Excellence Roundtable Meeting - Adelaide
12th Assessment and Benchmarking Sustainability Indicators –Melbourne
15th Information Night on Competitive Manufacturing - Gladstone
Various RCA Public Workshops – Vic, SA, WA, NSW and Tas
Check the RCA Rt website for details
Oct 2009
27th & 28th Condition Monitoring and Lubrication National Forum – Sydney
Do your trainees win awards?
We don’t deliver our workplace training to win awards but it’s gratifying to have the work of our trainees recognized. You can imagine our delight a hearing that Michael Pope, Acting Pump Crew Supervisor at Queensland Alumina (QAL) has been awarded trainee of the year in the Regional Finals and is heading to Brisbane in September for the state finals.
LEAN Rt is currently delivering our second Competitive Manufacturing training program at QAL. Michael completed the first training program with some excellent projects saving both time and money for his company. The strong support for the program by the leadership and continuous improvement team at QAL certainly helped with the massive gains the trainees achieved through the projects they did.
 That’s great but in a way, because of the way our program is designed, it’s what we expect from our trainees. For me the best bit of Michaels story is how he has taken what he’s learnt and applied it to his home life to help his mum.
Michael’s mum is a widow with ambitions to travel around Australia a bit before she gets too old. The one thing was holding her back from taking off with her caravan was the worry about being able to reverse the caravan. Michael took what he learnt about standard work and mistake proofing to create standard work instructions for Mrs Pope to keep in her glove box. The instructions Michael developed are visual and easy for her to follow. He’s even mistake proofed them so she’s now fully confident to take off, knowing she has the instructions to refresh her memory any time she has to back into a tricky spot.
Lean Manufacturing focuses on the 7 wastes and respect for people. Both aspects are important but in the Australian context we’re finding a lot of benefits flow from another aspect of lean Competitive Manufacturing that we promote - looking for ways to make things easier.
Easier is better for the people doing the job and better for the company that is paying them to do it.
- What part of your system or process is hard for the people running it?
- What might they come up with if you ask them to find ways to make their job easier to do?
If you want to talk to me about how you can access our award winning training give me a call on 03 9697 1106. We’ve currently looking for some more companies to work with who are serious about wanting to implement lean continuous improvement cultures.
If you are in the Gladstone area we’re holding an information evening on Competitive Manufacturing on the 15th September. Email me for more information.
joanne.law@sirfrt.com.au
2 Day Lean Implementation Workshop
Have you been tasked with implementing lean manufacturing? As the benefits of the manufacturing system are becoming more obvious, more and more businesses are reaching the decision that they need to “go lean.”
Most leaders have heard of lean manufacturing, read some of the books and been involved with using some of the tools such as 5S or Root Cause Analysis. There is a big gap between that and leading the successful implementation of a sustainable lean manufacturing system and developing a continuous improvement culture. The importance of the senior leadership team having an aligned implementation strategy can’t be understated so we’ve developed a workshop to help you to understand lean and begin to develop your strategy to implement it.
The workshop helps participants to understand:
- Why the Toyota Production System (lean) was developed and what it’s key features are
- Why mass production is no longer the most efficient model for Australian manufacturers
- What the lean tools are and what benefits they bring
- What elements of lean are already in place in their organization (using a self evaluation tool)
- What a strategic implementation of lean involves
- What barriers exist in the organization and what countermeasures could be used to overcome them
And then develop a high level strategy for your lean implementation. The workshop is not a generic program. It’s delivered by Geoff Green, LEAN Rt lead trainer and program developer, who varies and modifies the content during the course of the two days based on what you need to know.
If you would like some assistance in developing your lean implementation strategy or if you’ve started on your implementation and your strategy isn’t working as you had expected then invest in these two days with our team. Contact Joanne Law on 03 9697 1106 for more information.
Sustainability Roundtables and Sustainability Victoria
SIRF Roundtables will soon be hosting three Sustainability Roundtables with the first meeting of the Victorian Sustainability Roundtable on the 26th of August. The half day meeting is going to be held at the Melbourne Zoo and will include a site tour of the work being done at the Zoo to conserve resources, especially water.
If you’re role includes responsibility for improving the sustainability of your operations then take the opportunity to have your say about what you think are the priority issues regarding business sustainability by coming along to the meeting. Contact facilitator Judith Alcorn for an invite. judith.alcorn@sirfrt.com.au or 0400 445 677
Judith is running some other activities on behalf of SIRF Rt supported by funding from the Victorian Department of Sustainability.
SIRF Rt is conducting a Survey to find out about attitudes and perceptions regarding Business Sustainability.
Follow this link to take the survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9PpUbSpkHG84Corubfpv3A_3d_3d
Sorry there is no fabulous prize you can win for taking the survey. You will be able to access the results to help you to benchmark your organization against the others that complete the survey. Identifying information will be removed but you’ll be able to compare against a number of variables.
Feel free to invite others from your organization or peers from other organizations to participate by copying and pasting the link into an email and sending it to them or by forwarding on this email. The more people who undertake the survey the better the sample and richer the data we’ll be able to share back.
Environmental Sustainability Benchmarking Project
Once again thanks to Sustainability Victoria who have assisted with funding for an:
Assessment and Benchmarking of Environmental Sustainability Indicators project.
We invite you to join in this FREE three month program which will;
- Establish your current resource use -using combination of desk-top and practical on-site exercise
- Benchmark with others in the your own and other sectors - examine approaches and assumptions
- Work through a process of identifying challenges and what could be done to improve your situation - peer assisted
The first meeting of interested people will be held on Thursday September 12 2009 at SIRF Rt Southbank - 9.15am - 12pm.
Numbers are limited so please contact Judith for more information and to register your interest if you would like to get together with your peers to work through the issues that face your business around the Environmental Sustainability of your business model. The project will incorporate individual assistance and group meetings up until the end of November 2009.
You can email Judith on judith.alcorn@sirfrt.com.au or call on 0400 445 677
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