AME-UK - Events


	Events

Events

Discover the benefits and how successful companies achieved them

These events show you the kind of activities you can learn how to apply and the possibilities they could generate for you.

	About AME-UK events
	UK workshops
	US conference
	UK member events
	- Workshops
	- Company visits
	- Local events

About AME-UK events
AME-UK aims all its programmes at improving profitability. Its objective is to learn from the best through education, documentation, research and sharing experience; all to improve the performance of individual members’ companies.
As well as hands-on training, AME offers training videos, including a view of world class manufacturing sites, and summaries of Kaizen Blitzes in a variety of industries. Their quarterly journal, Target®, publishes case studies of how members have made radical improvements at little or no cost. It suggests how you replicate these successes.
When you join AME-UK you learn how members have put world-class manufacturers’ lessons into action in their own firms. You hear the actual staff who made the changes explain what they did and why - the results they achieved - their before and after situations. You learn how you apply them.
Being a member is all about getting the opportunity to learn from other firms and specialist institutions how you improve your bottom-line results. In the short term from how you organise your manufacturing and order-taking operations; in the medium to long-term, from how you develop your products.
The learning by doing results from events at member companies are spectacular. And all the learning and training techniques and material from AME in the USA is immediately available to everyone who is a member of AME-UK.

UK workshops
A workshop for business leaders & manufacturing managers
Competitive pressures within business increase daily. The demand for lower unit costs; increased flexibility and improved profitability are requirements that all producers face in the modern business environment. Competition from new EU member countries in Eastern Europe has been with us for several years and the emerging giant, China, only serves to amplify these pressures. Businesses in North Lincolnshire are not immune to these. Lean thinking has been around since the days of Henry Ford and was adopted enthusiastically by Japan and the USA following World War II. But what is it really about? Behind the generic term “the Lean Journey” what is really involved? Where is it applicable and what are the benefits? These workshops are intended to answer these questions and more.
	Click here for details of the Lean Business Summit on 13 March 2008, and to book your place.
Click here for dates and details of other workshops.

US conference
North America's Largest Lean Conference - autumn this year
The largest manufacturing conference in the world is to be held in Toronto, Canada from 20 to 24 October 2008. Organised by AME the conference provides a unique opportunity to visit world-class plants and to see and learn how they achieved their status. In addition the conference offers workshops, presentations and the opportunity to listen to the views and thinking of keynote speakers who are leaders in the manufacturing sector.
The current world economic situation suggests that never before has the need been greater for the powerful learning that an AME conference provides. There is simply no greater learning opportunity anywhere for manufacturers that are seeking to be considered great.
There are already large bookings for the Toronto conference.
AME-UK has secured special rates for members that will only apply in the UK and will remain available up to the start of the conference. The standard rate is $2,499 but for AME-UK members this is discounted by 25% to $1,874.
Non-members will be charged an AME-UK member subscription so if you're not a paid-up member you will need to add $110 to the prices above.
Bob Davis (AME-UK President) commented: "With the current exchange rate this is remarkably good value and I would urge all manufacturing organisations to give serious consideration to sending members of staff who are actively involved in continuous improvement programmes as they will almost certainly come back with ideas which will result in savings considerable more than the total cost of the conference."
	Click here for full details of the conference and to book your place.

Events organised for AME-UK members
The vast majority of UK manufacturing operations’ managers have the potential to reduce their operating costs so far that the weak Euro would become an irrelevance. The problem is that they don’t think it’s possible. They believe they’ve done everything they can. In reality most have hardly started.
Come to our next UK workshop and learn from companies that have succeeded.

Workshops

How you start to cut operating costs

These one-day in-company workshops are on different aspects of lean operating such as process mapping, single piece flow and so on. Each workshop is for 10-20 AME-UK members. Join to receive our future events programme and attend. You hear the principles then see how the company does it. First the do-ers, not professional trainers or managers, explain what the company did and why. Then you see it done. And finally you run an improvement exercise in teams. You analyse what the company does and feed back how it could be done better. The company gets free advice, which is their incentive. The AME reputation gets into firms where none other will penetrate. And the whole event can be videoed so that all members can use it for training.

Company visits

In AME-UK company visits you get to kick the tyres

See, examine, and understand in depth how the company made significant changes;
Learn what worked and what failed;
See how they radically improved operations;
Understand how they cut costs;
Discover the major lessons - that you can apply.

Learn how you apply AME-UK members’ experience to your own operation

Hear their staff explain what they have done, how and why they did it, how little it cost them and the huge benefits. Learn what they are planning to do next.

Members research, share and exchange information; and visit companies to advance their understanding and practice of the best operating principles. The quality of events is controlled by AME including how to run them. The operators, supervisors and engineers - those who live it day-to-day - give the presentations. It’s all about learning what you could achieve and seeing it demonstrated. You question in detail so you can apply it back in your own company. There are four main types of event:

Local events

We are in the process of arranging in-depth analysis visits to benchmark UK manufacturers, as outlined above.

You will be able to examine in depth how they organise and how they operate; see the results for yourself; question their staff; learn how you apply it to your own operation.

These are set up locally, often within members’ firms. The do-ers explain and are questioned on how they devised and applied their methods. They share the information so you can use it to make improvements in your own firm. Even competitors share information because they are all striving for excellence.

You examine in depth how they organise and how they operate; see the results for yourself; question their staff; learn how you apply it to your own operation.

Learn how they reduce their costs by eliminating wasteful activities. See how they add value to what they manufacture. How they cut lead-time, stock, and work in progress without major capital investment.

Learn how they achieve low cost and fast returns on the investment of making these changes.

Learn how they reduce the cost of their purchases by educating and helping their suppliers do the same.

Please e-mail Events@AME-UK.org for details of next events.

Dr C B Mynott, Secretariat, AME-UK