Pre Conference Workshop Day, Monday, March 19, 2012
8:00 AM Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast is Served for Workshop Participants
9:00 AM Lean Kaizen Certification Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt ClassThis course is designed to offer participants a broad understanding of Six Sigma and Lean methodologies while they develop the capability to understand and use basic tools for process improvement. The result will be an ability to contribute to Lean Six Sigma projects and deliver meaningful results. All course content will be available online in an on-demand format. Spend over half of your time in the course working through interactive practice exercises and online self-assessments.

Choose the examples you’d like to see in the training (traditional, services, healthcare, or financial services). Get prepared to play an important role as part of a process improvement team as you become proficient in using basic problem-solving tools.

Learning Objectives:

  • Communicate using Lean Six Sigma concepts
  • Relate Lean Six Sigma concepts to the overall business objectives
  • Use the five-step DMAIC model to improve processes
  • Participate in the development or refinement of a project charter
  • Build and understand process maps, Pareto charts, affinity diagrams, trend charts, control charts, and histograms
  • Identify the root cause of a problem
  • Use a failure mode and effects analysis to set priorities for improvement
  • Document process changes and use a control plan to prevent backsliding Who Should Attend Attendees should be those seeking to improve their process improvement skills and/or companies that have embarked upon a Lean Six Sigma deployment and require training for a broad audience.

Do not miss this course if you:

  • Are planning to participate on a Lean Six Sigma Team
  • Your organization is starting a continuous process improvement program
  • Are a functional level manager who want to have visual tools to enable quick wins in your areas of responsibility
  • Are a leader who wishes to better understand the application of Lean Six Sigma tools (visual).

David Asher, President and CEO, ASHER ASSOCIATES
3:00 PM Certification Concludes

 

Conference Day 1, Tuesday, March 20, 2012
8:00 AM Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Chairman’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

Terence Barnhart, Senior Director, Strategy and Continuous Improvement, PFIZER
9:05 AM LEAN IMMERSION MINI-WORKSHOP: Building and Managing Through A3s

Workshop Leaders:

Terence Barnhart, Senior Director, Strategy and Continuous Improvement, PFIZER

Bella Englebach, Senior Director Strategic Business Improvement, CENTOCOR R&D

There will be a 30-minute coffee & refreshment break during this workshop
12:00 PM Lunch for Workshop Attendees / Registration Opens for Main Conference
1:15 PM ORGANIZATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: MEDIMMUNE
Bringing Smaller Projects Under a Common Initiative by Aligning Interest from the Company President to the Individual Contributor

Ian See, Senior Director of Operational Excellence, MEDIMMUNE
2:00 PM ORGANIZATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: ELI LILLY & CO
Utilization of Lean Six Sigma to Speed Innovation

Martin Hynes III, PhD, Senior Director, Product Research & Development, and Six Sigma Champion, ELI LILLY

Trafford Clarke, PhD, Executive Director, Six Sigma, ELI LILLY
2:45 PM Networking & Refreshment Break
3:15 PM ORGANIZATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: ASTRAZENECA
The Purple Path to Operational Excellence

Patricia Hayes, Continuous Improvement Leader, R&D, ASTRAZENECA
4:00 PM ORGANIZATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: LEO PHARMACEUTICALS
Becoming Patient Centric: Reducing Development Time in Order to Reach the Patients Faster – The Patients are Waiting!

Joergen Ahm Petersen, Senior LEAN Project Manager, Financial Development & Strategic Planning, LEO PHARMA
4:45 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: Not Only Changing Culture, But Sustaining Improvement & Optimizing Workforces

Moderator:

Terence Barnhart, Senior Director, Strategy and Continuous Improvement, PFIZER

Panelists:

Alister Thomson, Director, Strategic Process Optimization, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY

Martin Hynes III, PhD, Senior Director, Product Research & Development, and Six Sigma Champion, ELI LILLY

Heike Roeder, Global SOP & Training Management, UCB Patricia Hayes, Continuous Improvement Leader, R&D, ASTRAZENECA
5:30 PM Close of Day One
  Cocktail Reception Sponsored By:

 

Conference Day Two: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast Opens

Track A CLINICAL IMPROVEMENT

Track B RESEARCH FOCUS
9:00 AM CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME: CLINICAL IMPROVEMENT

Martin Hynes III, PhD, Senior Director, Product Research & Development, and Six Sigma Champion, ELI LILLY

 CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME: RESEARCH IMPROVEMENT

Terence Barnhart, Senior Director, Strategy and Continuous Improvement, PFIZER
9:05 AM BUILDING QUALITY INTO CLINICAL TRIALS USING LEAN SIX SIGMA PRINCIPLES:  An Integrated Quality Management Plan (IQMP)

Ken Sprenger, MD, MBBCh, Medicine Team Leader, Primary Care BU, PFIZER

 FOLLOW UP PRESENTATION: Workload Leveling in a Biologics Research Discovery

LabJill Carton, Director, Biologics Research, CENTOCOR R&D
9:45 AM THE ROLE OF THE PROCESS OWNER: Comparing the Theory of the Process Owner to Real Life Experiences

Mariana Sacchi, Latin America Site Monitor Manager, Latin America Clinical Data Quality Manager Manager, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB

 VARIATION REDUCTION IN THE LAB: Using Statistical Tools to Discover and Eliminate Variation in R&D

Joel Smith, Statistician, MINITAB
10:30 AM Networking & Refreshment Break
11:00 AM IMPLEMENTING RISK-BASED DECISION MAKING WITHIN CLINICAL TRAILS

Ken Schiff, President,QUALITY RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES

 QUALITY CONTROL FOR AN R&D LAB CASE STUDY: HPLC Cleaning and Maintenance

Sally McGouran, Scientific Services Analyst, MCNEIL CONSUMER HEALTHCARE
11:45 AM IMPLEMENTING AND SUSTAINING CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATORY SUBMISSIONS

Patrick McCann, Associate Director of R&D Operations, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB

 VIRTUAL PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY CASE STUDY: How to Handle “Added Failure” in Pharmacological Drug Development

Gyorgy Bathori, Head of the Applied Liposome Research Laboratory, NANOMEDICINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER
12:45 PM Lunch
1:45 PM EFFECTIVELY USING STATISTICS: Visualizing and Communicating Results with Non-Statisticians

Christina Gilchrist, Director of Research, WELLSPAN HEALTH
2:30 PM LEAN SIGMA PROJECT SELECTION IN R&D 

Jacqueline Jones, Associate Project Engineer II, NESTLE
3:15 PM CLOSING PANEL DISCUSSION: Defining the Direction of Lean Sigma Across Different Industries

Moderator:

Christina Gilchrist, Director of Research, WELLSPAN HEALTH

Panelists:

Bella Englebach, Senior Director Strategic Business Improvement, CENTOCOR R&D

Jacqueline Jones, Associate Project Engineer II, NESTLE

Tom Forrestal, MPS Leader, MERCK
4:00 PM Conference Concludes

 

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